Easel

Tabletop or Floor: Matching Easel Size to the Job

This collection spans the full size ladder. Tabletop easels run from 6″, 7″, and 9″ ornate brass stands through 14″ gold scroll designs with foldable stands — sized for framed photos, recipe cards, small art, and decorative plates on shelves, mantels, and counters. Floor territory starts at the 25″ black metal easel with fleur-de-lis design and climbs to a 48″ folding tripod and a 70″ large display stand for full-size framed art and event signage. The rule of thumb: the easel’s ledge should sit comfortably under your frame with the frame’s top resting against the back support — check each listing’s height against your piece.

Ornate Brass Easels: Victorian Detail in Miniature

The signature of this collection is the antique gold brass tabletop easel — Victorian-style stands with crown tops, scrollwork, and arabesque detailing at 6″ to 9″H, plus brushed silver versions of the same silhouette. These are display stands that deserve display themselves: even empty, an ornate brass easel reads as decor on a shelf. Loaded, it lifts whatever it holds — a family photo, a small painting, an open cookbook — to eye level and gives it a frame-within-a-frame. They pair naturally with the brass photo frames in the gift collection, and the combination makes a ready-made present.

What People Actually Display on Easels

Framed photos and art are the obvious answers, but easels earn their keep in more specific jobs: a decorative plate that would otherwise sit stacked in a cabinet, a cookbook held open at the recipe in use, a menu or welcome sign at a dinner party, a vinyl record sleeve in a music corner. The 48″ and 70″ floor easels handle event work — seating charts and welcome signs at weddings, portraits at celebrations — then fold or store between occasions. It’s the easiest way to display art without putting a hole in the wall; for pieces you do want hung, the wall decor collection covers that side.

Folding and Practical Designs

Several easels here are built to move. The 48″ black metal tripod folds flat, the 14″ gold scroll easel has a foldable stand, and the black metal easel set of 2 folds for storage — useful if your easels come out for holidays, parties, or rotating displays rather than living in one spot year-round. Metal and brass construction keeps even the slender ornate designs rigid under a frame’s weight. As always, match the easel to the piece: listings state height, and heavier framed art belongs on the floor stands rather than the 6″–9″ tabletop pieces. Smaller accents to style alongside live in the wider decor collection.