Sometimes I like to revisit books that may be oldies but are definitely goodies, like Amy and David Butler's
Found Style, published back in 2003. Since it's also prime season for antiquing and garage sales, it seemed only appropriate to introduce you all to a book that offers sensible, inspired advice on integrating "found" objects into your home. Amy Butler, whose
fabric designs I love, brilliantly combines garage sale $1 finds with midcentury furniture, Pottery Barn accessories, and practical, Ikea pieces in this book.
A certain rocker/blogger's female companion was spotted shopping at
Naga Antiques in New York, which specializes in Japanese screens, bronzes, ceramics, porcelains, lacquer, sculpture, and furniture, presumably for her home. Do you know who it is?
Today marks the launch of the
Jayson Home & Garden European Flea Market online. Thanks to the keen eyes over at Jayson, these rare finds — a mix of timeless European furniture and lighting, antique prints and oil paintings, gilded mirrors, hotel silverware, and more —have made their way from Europe and beyond to Chicago’s Lincoln Park. The market has been running locally there
since April 18th, but that's no fun for non-Illinois folk, so I’m ecstatic to see it all just a click away in my browser.
While
integrating Ikea products into your home may be easy and affordable, they're not the most durable products you can buy, in terms of both style and quality. If you're lucky, you have a mix of high-quality new pieces as well as antiques to balance out and give a more grown-up look to your less expensive pieces. Although some antiques, especially if you've inherited them, may not be the pieces you swoon over while flipping through
your favorite shelter magazine, they're often classics and quite resilient, since they've held up for so long already.
If you live in an older home, you know that matching period-appropriate door knobs, drawer handles, and other important hardware is often a challenge.
Enter the
Charleston Hardware Company , which for the past eight years has specialized in antique hardware sales and restoration. Since their customers requested large numbers of matching pieces, they began collecting original antique patterns and in 2003 even began reproducing them, utilizing the same techniques from over 100 years ago.
This circa-1775
Irish silver cake ring ($7500) was crafted by John Craig, and is obviously more money than most people would ever spend on a cake ring (or most household accessories). However, we're not interested in using this item as a cake ring. If you'll remember, the last few
How Would You posts, that's not how this Casa post works.
In its most general sense, the Uzbek word "suzani" means needlework. However, most suzani lovers associate the word with the intricate, beautiful, and colorful embroidery work made by women in the Central Asian country of Uzbekistan.
To hear more about the history (and future) of suzani textiles, as well as to see some great suzani products, just
In the 19th century, Uzbek women made prayer mats, embroidered hangings, bed covers, and other household textiles for their homes and for dowries.
I just stumbled upon the Kentucky double-wide mobile home of Theresa and Craig Smith, that was featured in
Country Living, and I am utterly in awe of it. The Smiths run an antiques business and travel most of the year, selling at shows around the country, and have decorated their home with what they've found along the way. Their 2,016-square-foot home is chock full of salvaged materials and antiques, and is, to say the least, very inspiring.
According to the New York Times,
one of the most prominent antiques dealers in Paris,
Ariane Dandois, is going out of business after 34 years and
Sotheby's New York is holding the blow-out sale of her inventory. The sale of Dandois's sleekly modern three-floor Right Bank gallery and her warehouse on the Left Bank will take place on October 25 and 26.
The stock of over 1500 pieces consists primarily of furniture and other decor from France, Italy, Russia, Scandinavia, Spain, Germany, and England, particularly the neo-classical period of the late 18th and early 19th century.
An adjective used to describe either home furniture and accessories that were made in the past or new products that evoke past styles. Though no distinct time period is associated with "retro," the term is typically applied to designs from the 1940s to 1970s, as opposed to much older
antiques.
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