The two chairs seemed to shimmer under the lights in the auction house. They were silver with rivets along each side and thin curved legs. They were metal, industrial steel, according to the auction house bid…
Category: furniture
The little child’s piano just grabbed hold of me when I walked through the door of the auction house. Someone with a marketer’s eye knew what they were doing. It faced me like a yearning…
Every now and then, I’m struck by some very disparate items on the auction tables and on the floor. At one of my favorite auction houses recently, four things stopped me: Two settees with side…
A treasured heirloom trunk
Posted in furniture, and Personal items
Nothing much was grabbing me on the auction tables this week so I moseyed to the back room to check out the furniture. I didn’t expect to find anything there to buy because I’m not in…
One thing I’ve learned at auction is that there’s a buyer for everything. Something I wouldn’t purchase in a million years could be snapped up by someone who’s been looking for that same piece since…
I was drifting among the modern design furniture at one of my favorite auction houses this week and wasn’t finding much that whispered “come hither.” Until I turned a corner and ran smack into –…
They remind me of Big Mama
Posted in Family, furniture, and Personal items
Every now and then when I’m at auction, I see a piece of furniture or some other item that reminds me of my grandmother. Things that belonged to her and represented who she was to…
The organ sat there against a wall in the auction house like a grand dame – big, bulky with a little dust caked on the keys. It drew the attention of many of us as…
Furniture at too cheap a price
Posted in furniture
Sometimes when I’m sitting at an auction waiting for an item to come up, I’ll saunter over to the furniture sale. The stuff sells so cheaply that the auction house might as well give it…
Furniture that caught my eye
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I was trolling through the “junk” furniture on an outside lot at auction last week when I saw a few pieces that struck me. This auction house usually puts the less-desirable furniture in this exterior lot…