palmwood

As in his living room, a 1910s wooden pillar by Constantin Brancusi ($19 million to $25 million) will be placed not far from a 1910s armchair by Eileen Gray carved with dragons ($2.5 million to $3.8 million), two 1920s red-lacquered palmwood benches by Gustave Miklos ($2.5 million to $3.8 million), an ivory-inlaid 1910s cylindrical table by Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann ($88,000 to $114,000) and a surprisingly staid pair of 18th-century walnut sofas ($38,000 to $63,000).

2009 February 20, Eve M. Kahn, “Flickery Images of Black Life Back Then”, in New York Times