STYLES
La Maison Arteslonga likes to explore and bring together styles and eras in a desire for harmony and softness.
Modernist
Minimalist Raw
Luxury Movie Star 50s
Timeless
Orientalist
Baroque
Proustian Era
Greco-Roman
Cabinet of Curiosities
Ethnic Chic
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Ere Ibeji Figure, Nigeria
€420.00The unique piece shown in the picture is the exact item you will receive.
Ibeji male figurine with pleasant features and facial scarifications. He has a sensitive expression. The character wears a traditional high-bonnet hairstyle. The surface has a nice brown patina. It is decorated with pearls around the waist and arms.
Material: Wood
Age: mid-20th century
Origin: Nigeria
Tribe: Ere Ibeji - Yoruba
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Swivel Armchair Nautile, Terra-Cotta Velvet
€960.00Add 1950s-inspired glamor and Art Deco to your living room with the sumptuous Nautile swivel chair. The Nautile swivel armchair in cotton velvet offers a delicate and soft touch. With its asymmetric backrest and deep turquoise upholstery, and swivel base, this gorgeous seat exudes vintage glamour.
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Swivel Armchair Nautile, Sky Blue Velvet
€1,440.00Add 1950s-inspired glamor and Art Deco to your living room with the sumptuous Nautile swivel chair. The Nautile swivel armchair in cotton velvet offers a delicate and soft touch. With its asymmetric backrest and deep turquoise upholstery, and swivel base, this gorgeous seat exudes vintage glamour.
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Floor Matt Brass Lamp Jazzy H183 cm
€1,980.00The polished matt brass Jazzy floor lamp is a deco object with a design and aesthetic that we particularly like. This lamp with its 5 bulbs diffuses a soft and shimmering light. In a living room, on the edge of a sofa or near an armchair, this brass lamp with a height of 183 cm will create a fantastic and multi-directional point.
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Steed Sideboard Made on Order
The Ray Sideboard, contemporary realization of 200cm wide and 50cm deep, made in a beautiful veneer of rosewood.
A striking modern design in the typical Nordic style of the 50s.
Superb facade with its doors and three large drawers curved. -
New Guinea Headdress - Shells and Black Feathers
€220.00Beautiful New Guinea headdress made of shells, braided fibers and black feathers.
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Dining Chair Bustier, Fresh Pink Velvet
€662.01Host your guests with style with the Bustier Dining Chair. With its curved back, its seat covered with fresh pink velvet and spring and feet polished and brushed brass, this elegant armchair expresses the modern charm of mid-century. Base in polished brass metal, seat in pink cotton velvet in the style of the 50s with an irreproachable finish.
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Dining Chair Bustier, Fresh Pink Velvet
€662.01Host your guests with style with the Bustier Dining Chair. With its curved back, its seat covered with grey velvet and spring and feet polished and brushed brass, this elegant armchair expresses the modern charm of mid-century. Base in polished brass metal, seat in grey cotton velvet in the style of the 50s with an irreproachable finish.
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Rug Flush - Price On Demand
Contemporary rug Flush, knotted and woven by hand. A contemporary painting as a rug. A tremendous contemporary design. With a creation without any limits, the rug Flush transmits us its delicacy, enticing beauty and sensuality. A beautiful 100% handmade rug with Natural Wool and Botanical Silk, that transforms the comfort and beauty of your project.
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Indonesian Headdress - Shells and Feathers
€220.00Beautiful headdress made by hand from Indonesia made weaving seashells, braided fibers and feathers.
These headdresses were worn during festivities. Sold here on his display, as in a museum.
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Beautiful book Mykonos Muse
€220.01Beautiful book of photographs of interior decorations: Mykonos Muse.
A lifestyle that we love so much.
New book edited by Assouline.
Absolutely splendid and so inspiring.
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Beautiful book Capri Dolce Vita
€160.00Beautiful book of photographs of lifestyle: Capri Dolce Vita.
A lifestyle that we love so much.
New book edited by Assouline.
Absolutely splendid and so inspiring.
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Carved Ethnic Shield H181cm
€1,200.00Still in use in the Papuan tribes, this shield is adorned with all the ornaments to the glory of the warrior who wears it. Note the red ocher paintings, typical of this region of the world, and symbols of mother earth.
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Photo Summer Time : Water Ski - 90cm
€520.00This striking 1960s Black & White photograph shows 4 people, two men and two women, waterskiing and surfing the same wave in a line.
Staring straight ahead of the photographer, they all have their right arms raised and make high-speed monoskiing seem effortless.
Summer in one photo!
The photo is delivered in a frame with marie louise in a white wooden frame and transparent glass.
Dimensions: width 90 x height 69.7 x D. 7 cm
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Jack Nicholson Wearing Ray-Ban 103cm
€1,911.30This striking photograph shows American actor Jack Nicholson wearing Ray-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses.
It was taken in 1993 by Michael Tighe, who started shooting formal portraits during high school and began his professional career as a photographer at age 17.
The print comes in a white wooden frame with passe-partout and clear glass.
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Papou Necklace on Base H82cm
€280.00Beautiful decorative necklace made with shells, pearls and feathers. Delivered with its black metal foot, this superb ethnic and tribal necklace will bring a touch of adventure and discovery to your interior. This necklace is handcrafted in Papua.
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Swivel Chair J.Steed, Faux Shearling
€1,840.00Add 1950s-inspired glamor to your living room with the lavish J. Steed swivel chair. With a silhouette in the shape of a cocooning shell upholstered in synthetic sheep's wool and mounted on a beautiful stainless steel swivel tulip foot, this magnificent swivel armchair will complete your interior. The J.Steed swivel tulip armchair in sheepskin-effect fabrics, offers a delicate and soft touch.
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Travelling Set Black and White - set of 8 Frames
€1,182.00Set of 8 frames of poetic travel photos under glass, a world tour "vintage traveling" spirit.
Blackened wooden frames and glass, the largest measures 74x74 cm:
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The Sofa Spoke 220cm, Custom Made
€11,040.00The Spoke sofa has a truly striking silhouette.
With its armrests and oversized slightly curved back, the Spoke sofa can find its place in both formal and more relaxed interiors.
The Spoke sofa provides unparalleled comfort.
It is a grandiose, amazing and charismatic piece of furniture!
An essential piece of furniture for a chic and modern interior.
Realization exclusively on order, contact us for a quote.
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Swivel & Fringes Armchair Chabada
€1,556.01Add true Belle Époque-inspired glamor to your living room with the sumptuous Chabada swivel fringe armchair. With an elegantly curved silhouette and lush velvet upholstery in a powder pink color, this beautiful swivel chair will complement your interior. The Chabada swivel armchair in cotton velvet offers a delicate and soft touch.
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Blue Swivel & Fringes Armchair Chabada
€1,556.01Add true Belle Époque-inspired glamor to your living room with the sumptuous Chabada swivel fringe armchair. With an elegantly curved silhouette and lush velvet upholstery in a light blue color, this beautiful swivel chair will complement your interior. The Chabada swivel armchair in cotton velvet offers a delicate and soft touch.
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Beautiful book Mykonos Muse
€160.00Beautiful book of photographs of interior decorations: Mykonos Muse.
A lifestyle that we love so much.
New book edited by Assouline.
Absolutely splendid and so inspiring.
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10 Butterflies URANIA RIPHEUS in Capsule Glass
€1,470.0010 URANIA RIPHEUS butterflies in globe capsule.
This beautiful butterfly diurnal comes from Madagascar. It is endemic to this island and its caterpillar, yellow with long black hairs, is toxic.
Because it feeds only on a family of lianas whose sap is toxic.
This butterfly has incredible metallic colors and many "tails" lighter.
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11 Black & White Butterflies in Capsule Glass
€1,380.0011 Black butterflies spotted with white ANTENOR in a brass globe globe.
This globule globe worked brass adds to the whole a touch of decoration very "mid-century".
The Antenor butterfly is a very large butterfly with large tails with a wingspan of 120 mm to 140 mm, black color spotted with white. It is present in Madagascar, only in the south and the west of the country...
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12 Butterflies from Pacific Islands H66cm
€3,720.0012 magnificent bird-winged butterflies in a capsule globe.
The most common bird-winged butterfly - Ornithoptera Priamus - is actually not so common, because it is only found in a few small islands in the Pacific: Papua New Guinea, Southern Moluccas, Solomon Islands...
Islands where their forests diminish year after year under the influence of men.
This is why this protected species will be delivered with a CITES.
Only the males have these bright colors, the females are even larger, but brown in color.
They are so remarkable that our specimens now come from a farm in Indonesia.
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Baoulé mask, mid-20th century
€380.00Very beautiful Baoulé mask, mid-20th century from Ivory Coast of the Baoulé tribe.
A unique piece
The single item shown in the picture is the exact item you will receive.
The Baoulé are part of the Akan people. They moved to western Ivory Coast more than 200 years ago and adopted the masking traditions of their neighbors, the Guro, Sénoufo and Yaure peoples.
There are three basic types used in a special dance of rejoicing called Goli, symbolizing social order.
Most of these masks are Kpan – with elaborate hairstyles and exquisite carvings, and represent the elderly woman during ceremonies.
Another mask – Kple kple – represents the junior male. It is round and flat and is one of the most abstract traditional African masks.
A third type – a Goli Gulin – represents the senior male.
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Boa mask, mid-20th century
€380.00Very beautiful Boa mask, mid-20th century from Congo from the Boa tribe.
A unique piece. The single item shown in the picture is the exact item you will receive.
The Boa are mainly known for their masks, believed to be used in ceremonies related to war, to strengthen the courage of the warrior or to celebrate victories. These masks have wide-set, prominent, round ears, suggesting alertness, and are covered alternately with dark and light pigments. Ancient masks have been described belonging to warlike or secret associations and are considered war masks or diguises used for hunting although their precise function is not known
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Hemba Ancestor Figure, Mid XXth Century
€480.00The unique piece shown in the picture is the exact item you will receive.
A classic female Hemba ancestor figure with hands placed on the chest, eyes half open. These figures are imbued with the nobility of ancestors increasing the family lineage. These figures would have been shown during important ceremonies aimed at strengthening the family's position. As a spiritual container, the figure would facilitate the connection between the world of the dead and that of the living. It has beautiful scarifications on the abdomen.
Material: Wood
Age: mid-20th century
Origin: Congo
Tribe: Hemba
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Punu Mask, Gabon, mid-20th century
€380.00The unique piece shown in the picture is the exact item you will receive.
A Punu Duma or Mvudi mask from Gabon with white kaolin.
Masks like these were used by various tribes in Gabon.
The Mwo Spirit Maiden masks depict a beautiful young girl with her whitened face and serene expression. As in life, this beautiful young girl wears an elaborate hairstyle illustrated by polychrome colors.
The mask would be worn with a colorful costume covering his body. Although the mask has an Asian expression, no such connection has been made.
Known as Duma or Mvudi, it represents a female guardian spirit in the initiation of young girls, funeral rites, ancestor worship and also in full moon dances.
Material: wood
Age: mid-20th century
Origin: Gabon
Tribe: Punu
Tribe: Songye
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Ancestor Figure, Mid XXth Century, DR Congo
€520.00This unique piece shown in the picture is the exact item you will receive.
A typical female ancestral figure with nice varied patina. The stylistic similarities with the sculpture of the neighboring Kuba people are evident. Beautiful scarifications all over the body with a typical coiffure.
Material: Wood
Age: mid-20th century
Origin: Congo
Tribe: Ndengese
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Kpeliyee Mask, mid-20th century, Ivory Coast
€190.00Very beautiful Kifwebe mask, mid-20th century from Congo from the Songye tribe.
A unique piece. The single item shown in the picture is the exact item you will receive.
Named Kifwebe or “Boismasque” – the same type of which was produced by both the Luba and the Songye – this tribal mask imposes itself with its masterful dimensions.
The term Kifwebe refers to the mask – the society of masks – and to the wearer of the mask belonging to the male secret society bwadi bwa kifwebe.
There are three variants: the masculine (kilume) generally with a high crest - the feminine (kikashi) with a very low or absent crest - and finally the greatest embodying power (kia ndoshi).
Material: Wood
Age: mid-20th century
Origin: Congo
Tribe: Songye
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Ceremonial Seat, Chokwe Tribe
€1,400.00Chair from the Chokwé Tribe, mid-20th century.
The single item shown in the picture is the exact item you will receive.
Most seats in sub-Saharan Africa are low stools carved from a single block of wood. However, as early as the 16th century, Portuguese traders and explorers introduced back chairs to southern and eastern Africa. Chokwe artists soon began producing similar chairs by adding sculptural scenes and Chokwe motifs.
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Mask, Gabon, mid-20th century
€620.00The unique piece shown in the picture is the exact item you will receive.
Fang's Ngil masks are generally characterized by a face consisting of high orbital cavities on either side of a long straight nose separating two fine eye incisions.
The appearance of these masks coated with kaolin (the white color would evoke the power of the ancestors) in the middle of the night could arouse fear.
This type of mask was used by the Ngil male society which no longer exists today.
This secret society was responsible for initiations and fought against witchcraft. The wearers of these masks always appeared in large numbers at night lit by torches.
Material: wood
Age: mid-20th century
Origin: Gabon
Tribe: Fang
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Chief Dogon Stool, Mali, Mid XIXth Century
€620.00A unique piece. The items shown in the picture are exactly the items you will receive.
Stunning chef stool hand carved from a single piece of wood
A beautifully carved stool from Mali.
The ancestral figures or nommo are symmetrical and geometric sculpted in relief.
They support the higher seat and should represent ancestors seen as authority figures.
According to Dogon cosmogony, the stool is made up of two discs; one representing the sky and the other the earth.
It shows signs of wear due to aging but remains remarkably solid.
Material: Wood
Age: mid-20th century
Origin: Mali
Tribe: Dogon
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Chief Stool, Guinee Bissau, Mid XIXth Century
€1,200.00A unique piece. The items shown in the picture are exactly the items you will receive.
Superb chef's stool hand carved from a single piece of wood by the Baga tribe of Guinea-Bissau.
Stools are a minor art form for the Baga whose large masks and snake figures are among the largest and most impressive in Africa.
Striking modern pumpkin shape with intricate decorative carvings around the top edge.
It shows signs of wear due to aging but remains remarkably solid.
Material: Wood
Age: mid-20th century
Origin: Guinea Bissau
Tribe: Baga
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Set of 2 Ancient African Stools, Gabon
€1,200.00Two unique pieces. The items shown in the picture are exactly the items you will receive.
Chairs and stools are prestigious objects for the Kota people of Gabon.
You can notice how they use similar characteristics on all of their sculptures and other subjects that they create. L
The seat is decorated with various geometric patterns engraved in what appears to be copper and brass.
It shows signs of wear due to aging but remains remarkably solid.
Material: Wood, Brass and Copper
Age: mid-20th century
Origin: Gabon
Tribe: Kota
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Male King Figure, H156cm, Mid XXth Century
€3,200.00The unique piece shown in the picture is the exact item you will receive.
Wooden male king (Ndop) figure.
The figure sits cross-legged on a square platform (yiing) carved with a representation of a climbing vine.
Ndop statues are idealized representations of the Nyimi or kings of the Kuba kingdom.
Material: Wood
Age: mid-20th century
Origin: Congo
Tribe: Kuba Bushoong
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Ancestor in Terracotta, Nigeria, Mid XXth Century
€440.00The unique piece shown in the picture is the exact item you will receive.
Little is known about the Nok culture, which is defined largely on the basis of its stunning terracotta artwork.
Aesthetically, the sculpture is both naturalistic and expressionistic, with very distinctive elongated forms, triangular eyes, pierced pupils and nostrils, and elaborate hairstyles.
The function of this art is unclear, although the care with which they are executed has led some to claim that they represent nobility.
Material: Terracotta
Age: mid-20th century
Origin: Nigeria
Tribe: Nok
Tribe: Kuba Bushoong
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Large Statuette, H63,5cm, Etruscan Art
€460.00Large statuette presenting a reproduction of an "Ombra della Sera", a masterpiece of Etruscan Art dating from the 3rd century BC. BC, from ancient foundries in the Volterra region of Italy, and preserved at the Guarnacci Museum.
The story goes that Giacometti, in love with these statuettes, was inspired by them to design his emblematic sculptures.
Its workshop bronze patina gives it a warm and authentic appearance.
Material: bronze finish metal.
A very beautiful contemporary artisanal work for this beautiful object of Art.
For a refined and eternal interior decoration.