As soon as I saw the furniture in the golden pine finish, I knew it was 1950-ish. The short brass-capped feet and simple lines told me that it was Midcentury Modern, furniture that was made…
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When I saw notice of the hotel-liquidation sale on the auction-house website, I emailed several of my friends. I knew that most of them didn’t need furniture but maybe they knew someone who did. There…
Sometimes when I’m walking through an auction house, especially among the furniture, I notice the details that make certain pieces stand out. The unusual feet and arms of a chair, the supports on a table,…
Surprisingly, disinterested buyers had left two small pieces of furniture in two separate locations on outside tables at the auction house. The first one I spotted was a kitchen buffet in honey-colored wood with red…
Now that was a something different. That was my first thought after my meandering through antique furniture at an auction house led me to a very unusual glass-topped table and matching high-back chair. They looked like…
The man and his wife had just moved to Philadelphia with their family and were decorating their house. His wife was looking for a lamp, he told me, and she had considered buying one before they…
As I watched the movie, I looked keenly for the snow-white leather sofa. It was the prop that stood out the most last summer at an auction that sold furniture and accessories from the movie “Dead Man Down,” scenes…