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SILVER REPRODUCTIONS AT THE HOUSE OF PHILIP ORIEL

There may not be anything new in a pair of heavy silver candlesticks, but this particular pair happens to be so beautiful that they compel attention. They are exact reproductions of a pair made by Paul Lamerie in 1719, the originals of which are safely tucked away in a British museum. Standing 10½ inches, graceful yet massive, they are wrought with all the perfection of detail in line and design which characterize that great Silversmith.



The same firm, which specializes in every sort of beautiful and well made reproduction, has also on view several replicas of Jacobean vases. The most interesting feature is, that the pattern is not engraved but dovetailed with fine care. In outline they are extremely simple, with the graceful, conventionalized floral pattern of the design repeated in a still more conventionalized border at the base.

Source: Arts & Decoration - February 1917



Arthur Stannard Vernay founded the antiques business that bore his name. He was born ca. 1877 in Weymouth, England, and rumor has it that Vernay may not have been his surname at birth, but that he adopted it at a later date. He came to New York City as a young man with very little money. After working at A.J. Crawford’s, a furniture and furnishing store, Vernay began to deal in antiques, and opened his own shop in 1906 on 45th Street, just off Fifth Avenue. He sold English antiques almost exclusively. In addition to selling antiques, Vernay’s firm offered restoration and interior design services, including the installation of period paneled rooms. This was an important part of the business, employing up to forty people. Mr. Vernay’s first important client was Mrs. Morton Plant. He also worked with attorney Francis P. Garvan and financier James Cox Brady. Vernay, Inc. offered interior work until the late1960s. At various times, the firm had branches in London and Boston, and a summer shop in Newport, Rhode Island. For a brief while, it had a reproduction arm called The House of Philip Oriel, but it went out of business as a result of the Great Depression.

Source: The Winterthur Library - The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera

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The House of Philip Oriel - New York - 1915

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The House of Philip Oriel - New York - 1915

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Some advertisements from the well-known 1920's New York art dealer, Percy Jackson Higgs, in which he describes himself as "Formerly president of The House of Philip Oriel":


P. Jackson Higgs - New York - 1921


P. Jackson Higgs - New York - 1921


P. Jackson Higgs - New York - 1921


P. Jackson Higgs - New York - 1921


P. Jackson Higgs - New York - 1921

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REMOVALS

The growth of the House of Philip Oriel, Reproductions, has at last forced their removal and they will occupy the entire building at 6 West Forty-fifth Street early in October.

Source: Arts & Decoration - September 1917

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The Thirty-third Annual Exhibition of the Architectural League of New York


Some of the finest wrought hardware was exhibited by Samuel Yellin and by Arthur Todhunter, and possibilities in metal-work in the execution of lamp-stands, brackets and the like were excellently realised in the examples shown by Heath and Kantack. As in former exhibitions, well-studied projects in stained glass bore the names of Maitland Armstrong and Nicola d’Ascenzo, and several fine bits were contributed by C.H. Davis and J. Stark Melville, of The House Of Philip Oriel.

Source: International Studio - April 1918

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CONTRACTS AWARDED

NEW YORK

Store & Show Rooms (alt.): $10,000. 6 E. 45th st. Archt. E. F. Strassler, 16 E. 42d st. Owner Arthur S. Vernay, 12 E. 45th st. Lessee House of Philip Oriel, 23 E. 47th st. Bldr. Hoggson Bros., 485 Fifth av. Brk. Plans drawn.

Source: The American Contractor - 30th June 1917

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The House of Philip Oriel Inc.- New York - 1916

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The House of Philip Oriel Inc.- New York - 1917

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Another advertisement from Percy Jackson Higgs, describing himself as "Formerly president of The House of Philip Oriel" and stating that he specialises in hand wrought solid silver services:


P. Jackson Higgs - New York - 1920

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The House of Philip Oriel Inc.- New York - 1917

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P. Jackson Higgs - New York - 1921

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P. Jackson Higgs - New York - 1921

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The House of Philip Oriel - New York - 1914

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The House of Philip Oriel - New York - 1914

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The House of Philip Oriel - New York - 1914

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REAL ESTATE

Sales and Leases

....also in the building known as Carlton Chambers - Forty-seventh Street and Madison Avenue - an additional space on the first floor to the House of Philip Oriel.

Source: Brooklyn Life - 14th March 1914

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The House of Philip Oriel - New York - 1914

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The House of Philip Oriel - New York - 1914

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