Antique 19th Century French Gilded & Painted Cylinder Desk by Paul Sormani 1875 Decorative Arts brass and pewter into ebony

brass and pewter into ebony

He was known to be the pioneer of industrial design and an advocate of new teaching based on rigorous methodological criteria

the original door key is present

In 1891 he moved to Denver in hope of improving his health

McLarty enrolled at the Museum Art School (now the Pacific Northwest College of Art)

Antique 19th Century French Gilded & Painted Cylinder Desk by Paul Sormani 1875 Decorative Arts brass and pewter into ebonySOLD A fine late 19th century antique French painted & gilded mechanical Cylinder desk, by Paul Sormani, circa 1875. This very elegant antique cylinder desk by one of the preeminent French cabinet makers of the late 19th century. The desk having a mechanical auction when the drawer is opened the cylinder top retracts to reveal a recessed pen storage area and two removable glass inkwells, both original to the desk. The fold out writing surface having