Vintage Fallow Deer Antler Hall Tree

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This vintage hall tree is Adirondack style at its most ambitious. A towering mahogany-stained oak frame serves as the backbone … Read more This vintage hall tree is Adirondack style at its most ambitious. A towering mahogany-stained oak frame serves as the backbone for an astonishing assemblage of fallow deer antlers, each one incorporated with complete confidence and absolutely no restraint. Antlers form the coat hooks above. Antlers encircle the base in a dense crown that functions as an umbrella and walking stick stand. Even the feet are fashioned from antler tips. Every available opportunity was taken, and the result is magnificent.

The silhouette is part furniture, part sculpture, part hunting trophy. It occupies a room the way a fireplace does. You don't walk past it without noticing.

What makes the piece so compelling today is its refusal to fit neatly into a category. It feels perfectly at home in a mountain lodge, yet it possesses the same sculptural bravado that draws contemporary collectors to works by Claude Lalanne or Diego Giacometti. It is wild, excessive, beautifully impractical, and utterly unforgettable. See less