Carefully curated selection of furniture, art and everything in between - creating harmony by blending the ordinary and the exceptional.

We are not focussed on signatures but focus on finding unexpected and expressive pieces.

A corkscrew cut from a vine root, next to a chair by Dudouyt

Twelve objects, no hierarchy. Monica Monaco puts a corkscrew carved out of a vine root on the same footing as a low chair attributed to Charles Dudouyt, and that levelling is the point. The stated rule is that harmony comes from mixing the ordinary with the extraordinary, and that a signature matters less than what a piece does in a room. In practice, the selection is held together by surfaces: patinated wood, hammered or welded iron, woven cane and rush, bamboo.

The Captains Chair with Cane Seating is solid wood worn to an espresso tone, with a natural cane seat; it is the piece for a desk or a corner with a lamp. The Low Chair with Rush Seat, attributed to Dudouyt, has the honey-brown patina and hand-woven rush of French rustic modernism. The Elephant Chair in Bamboo is lighter and rounder. The Set of 4 Folk-art Pine Chairs from the Italian Alps, in gold and cognac tones, seats a table; the Spine Chair and Table in the style of André Dubreuil, in patinated metal, seats nobody comfortably and is bought for its skeleton. Several of these appear among the gallery's cane chairs and vintage chairs.

The Skeletal Sculpture in Iron by François Saison and a second hand-forged iron sculpture with primal animal motifs are the floor and console pieces, both listed with The Oblist's metal sculptures. Then the finds: a vintage Italian McDonald's sign in brass, a brutalist iron nutcracker shaped as a donkey, a hand-painted wooden box with a fish on the lid, the oversized vine-root corkscrew and a small tripod stool cut from a live-edge slab. None of them was made to be collected. Monica Monaco collects them anyway, and the mix is what the page is for.

Every object on this page is sold as a single vintage piece or a documented set, with condition, measurements and provenance on its product page. New pieces from Monica Monaco are added as they are sourced. Interior designers and architects working on residential or hospitality projects can order through the Trade Program.