May 31, 2019
The largest inventory of Native American and Mexican silver jewelry and most comprehensive gallery of West Coast fine art, illustration art, posters and prints.The leading source for the classics of the California Style, Monterey furniture, Catalina and Bauer pottery, Spanish Colonial, Spanish Revival, Mexican and Deco.
Old School for a New Era
In many ways we live in a golden age of design: customers and manufacturers have become hip to style, and Ikea and Target, West Elm, Crate and Barrel, Restoration Hardware have put good design within reach of those who can only aspire to the real Design Within Reach, while television and social media continue to educate us all. Which is all great. But…Simply because we get to see everything, a feeling creeps in that maybe we’ve seen it all. We miss the unique, the one of a kind, the never-copied, the unexpected. The very things that make interior design personal. That put a signature on a project.
And it so happens that these are the very things we specialize in, here at Early California Antiques. And not only the great classics of the classic California Style, Monterey furniture, Catalina and Bauer pottery, Spanish Colonial, Spanish Revival, Mexican, Deco, Mid-Century, Arts &Crafts, Native American, all the classic touchstones of what became the tangible California dream, but also the outliers and the unusual.
We color outside the lines, we venture outside of the box, we have an eclectic eye, endless curiosity and the habit of discovery: folk art and folk furniture, north and south of the border, memorabilia, curiosa and, our particular pride and joy, our ever-growing and exploring gallery of art. You’ll find everything from California plein-air masters to the abstract and the modernist, pieces evocative of the Great Depression, of the jazz age, the turn of the century and the mid-century: landscapes, cityscapes and portraits, oils, watercolors, prints and vintage photography.
With our showroom in Santa Barbara and our warehouse in Oxnard, our comprehensive web-site, as well our regular participation at numerous antiques shows, we put our energy into outreach to both buyers and sellers, dealers and collectors, and, very particularly, to designers and decorators. We make regular deliveries to Los Angeles, and indeed from San Francisco to San Diego, and we ship anywhere.
So find us.The Showroom: 1331 State St, Santa Barbara CA 93101 (805) 837-8735 Mon-Tues 10-6, Wed-Sat 11-7,Sun 12-6 The Warehouse: 953 N Rice Avenue Oxnard CA 93030 (805) 351-0109 By appointment, and last weekend of the month 10-5
Mon-Tues 10-6, Wed-Sat 11-7, Sun 12-6
July 25, 2015
Open Mon-Sat 9:00AM-9:00PM & Sun 9:00AM-8:00PM.
July 01, 2013
Transforming Spaces
May 11, 2013
Maryvonne LaParliere Art Exhibited at Oliver & Espig Gallery of Fine Art
I can still remember my little kindergarten school table in my native country of France. I remember how my young four-year-old nose was nearly pressed onto my drawing paper as I feverishly created. The environment around me seemed to vanish. I was alone. The only thing that mattered at that moment was my painting of a cherry pie. Only Heaven knew how my young heart would ache if I could not capture the rich, decadent color of the custard! My passion for art, fanned in the flames of my youth, still burns intensely today. I was born to be an Artist!
Later, I enrolled in the famous art school, “Les Beaux Arts.” At that time, Acrylic painting was just beginning to gain recognition as a medium. I tried it. I loved it. Since then, I have achieved wonders with it. I also discovered that the flat, four-cornered canvas was too confining for me. I love space. I wanted to go further, outside of the frame, so I did. I began to incorporate the three dimensional world into painting scenery on the entire surface of furniture.
When I moved to California in 1986, hand-painted furniture, especially the way I did it, was rarely seen. My painted furniture got attention right away. In 1988, the national magazine, “Victorian Sampler,” in which my work was featured reported that, “Maryvonne LaParliere was one of the precursors and perhaps the one to establish the concept of painting an entire scene on a piece of furniture…” From there, I naturally progressed to painting on walls. I delightedly embellished murals of all sizes and shapes.
I love space. I feel comfortable with it and know how to use it. I believe it just comes naturally to me. Over the years I have created the most intricate scenes; pastoral countrysides, rich and diverse landscapes, breathtaking oceans, wild jungles, and untamed forests. I have also beautifully captured renditions of many other elements of the world such as people, animals, flowers and the change of seasons.
Over the years, I have noticed the charm and attraction that children have for my paintings. Perhaps it is because children sense that I have kept my inner child alive? I create with spontaneity, fundamental happiness, unbridled genius, and sheer and utter delight in the Nature I behold!
April 29, 2013
Open Mon.- Sat., 10am-7pm, Sun. 11am-6pm.