Antique furniture, restored for daily life.
Acanthus Home is an independent antique furniture studio on California's Palos Verdes Peninsula, offering one-of-a-kind nineteenth- and early twentieth-century furniture restored for daily life.
Each piece is researched and documented. Its accompanying object record brings together its construction, history, provenance, and restoration.
Every piece includes complimentary white-glove delivery in the contiguous U.S.
Every piece here was part of a life before it was part of a collection.
Every Object Is Understood Before It Is Admired.
An object is evidence. Someone chose it, paid for it, lived with it for years, and left traces of that life behind. Its construction records how it was made. Its repairs record what it survived.
Before an object enters the collection, we study its construction, document its history, and trace its provenance where the evidence allows. That research becomes the object record accompanying each piece.
Not a description. A record.
An old object should be understood before it is asked to begin another life.
From the Current Catalogue
Every object includes its complete object record, restoration history, and provenance where known.
Ebonized hardwood, reupholstered in Pierre Frey 'Bastian'
This antique Victorian slipper chair combines a carved hardwood frame, stained black in a modern restoration, with a boldly embroidered Pierre Frey textile. Raised on cabriole front legs beneath a deep balloon back, it dates to circa 1860–1875 and retains its apparently original ceramic castors and hand-tied sprung seat.
21 7⁄8 W × 24 D × 38 7⁄8 H in | Circa 1860–1875 | Origin not established
Includes complimentary insured white-glove delivery throughout the contiguous United States. Your piece is professionally packed, transported, delivered into your home, and placed in the room of your choice. Transit typically takes 2 to 6 weeks.
Oval one-drawer form on fluted, tapered legs
This vintage fluted oval side table brings the quiet balance of Neoclassical design into everyday living. An oval top rests on four slender fluted, tapering legs, with a single drawer set neatly into the apron. Dating to circa 1940–1970, it was stripped and refinished during restoration, while its original structure and proportions remain unchanged.
35 ½ × 17 ⅛ × 30 ⅛ in. | Circa 1940–1970 | Origin not established
Includes complimentary insured white-glove delivery throughout the contiguous United States. Your piece is professionally packed, transported, delivered into your home, and placed in the room of your choice. Transit typically takes 2 to 6 weeks.
Victorian oak slant-front with carved crest and fitted interior
This antique black lacquer secretary desk carries two histories at once: first as an American golden-oak slant-front secretary made around 1900–1915, and now as the black lacquered piece it became through careful restoration. A carved crest rises above the writing plane, and a carved medallion centers the fall-front, which drops to reveal a fitted interior of open compartments above three graduated drawers.
29 W × 12 D × 56 H in. | Circa 1900–1915 | Probably United States
Includes complimentary insured white-glove delivery throughout the contiguous United States. Your piece is professionally packed, transported, delivered into your home, and placed in the room of your choice. Transit typically takes 2 to 6 weeks.
