Antique sale at the world famous Casa de Sueños/Briones House in East Austin

Antiques sale at the world famous Casa de Sueños/Briones House in East Austin

Friday, February 23^rd          9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Saturday, February 24^th     9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Sunday, February 25^th       10:00 am - 2:00 pm

Old timey fortune telling scales?  Yes!  Plants?  Yes!  More, new (old/antique/vintage but new for us to present to you) items to delight your rods and cones and inspire your imagination?  Yes!  Antique furniture?  You bet!  And so much more for you to enjoy.

We had such a heartwarming and soul affirming good time sharing a weekend with y'all that we want to do it again! Find one-of-a-kind antiques at East Austin’s historic Casa de Sueños & give them a good home. There are beaucoup new-to-you items!

A new container of hand picked items from estates in Antwerp, Belgium and procured over years of searching are now ready for you! Items from across Europe, the Mediterranean, Africa and even a few closer-to home finds from the U.S. and Mexico) have been brought to Austin and cleaned up for your pleasure and wonder.  Come take a look at the gems and take home a finely crafted piece of history to brighten up your world.

Old world antiques dating from the 1700s to the1960s, including furniture, art, glassware, kitchen items, curiosities, good times stuff, including:

• Antique Flemish oil paintings
• Stylish and cool antique lamps
• Murano art glass from Italy
• Silver serving ware, and champagne buckets
• Mid century modern side tables
• Louis Phillipe dressers
• Vintage shells and coral
• Plants!  Get some cool plants!
• Vintage crucifixes and religious items
• Delft vases, plates, objects, and pottery from The Netherlands
• African art, masks, and ceremonial weapons
• Navigational tools
• Turkish, Persian, French rugs, runners, prayer rugs, pairs of rugs
• Woven tapestries
• Brass candlesticks, individual ones and pairs
• Silver candlesticks, individual ones and pairs
• Limoges porcelain from France
• Lisa Orr pottery
• Decorative mirrors
• Bruno Mathsson for DUX coffee table from Sweden
• 1960s gray glass coffee table with modular fold-outs
• Plants!

For questions about individual items, contact Laurie Marchant at (512) 200-4755 or via email at laurie@studiomarchant.com

For more amazing items, check our web site: www.StudioMarchant.com

Information on the house, Casa de Sueños/Briones House:

Built over a period of 14 years from 1947-1961, the Briones House is a uniquely crafted historic home in the heart of the historically Hispanic East Austin. The home features a variety of architectural styles along with a two-story porch overlooking East Seventh Street’s Green & White Grocery. To this day, the house remains the largest and most significant example of tinted concrete ornamentation in Texas.

Known locally as the Casa de Sueños (“House of Dreams”), the Briones House reflects curiosity, experience, and a deeper look into a style of architecture as unique as its builder. Born in 1899, Genaro P. Briones was raised by his uncle in New Mexico after being orphaned at the age of four. In his early teenage years, Briones and his family moved to El Paso, where he was introduced to plastering and bricklaying—skills he would later use in a professional setting. Briones settled in Austin in the mid-1930s, where he traveled frequently for work and eventually married local East Austin native Carolina Villareal.

When Briones met Dionicio Rodriguez during one of his out-of-state jobs, he was introduced to a style of building dubbed Faux Bois (“fake wood”), a technique in which concrete structures are sculpted and painted to resemble decaying trees and weathered wood. Rodriguez was a renowned builder known for his eclectic artisanal technique, and many of his projects are now listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

The Faux Bois technique intrigued Briones so much that, when given the opportunity to build his own home in 1947, he began covering the façade with vivid collages of color resembling rustic wood. In the decades to come, Rodriguez would visit Briones during construction and offer advice, spawning a fertile artistic relationship for years to come. Other notable styles that inspired Briones were Art Deco, Mexican-American folk art, and stucco décor typical in Mexico. In addition to these influences, the home’s architecture incorporates sculptural elements, multicolored tiles, decorative planters, and a grotto dedicated to the Virgin Mary.

Briones and his wife lived in the magical home up until his death in 1979. Today it serves as a private office space but can be viewed through the pickets of the fenced property. To this day, the Briones House remains an integral and impressive example of Mexican-influenced architecture in East Austin.

– Francisco Rosales

https://guidetoaustinarchitecture.com/places/briones-house/