Uncovering Our History Through The Relics Left Behind
Posted in Architecture/Buildings, and furniture
For me, silver is the color of a dime, a necklace, forks and spoons, and antique vessels. So imagine my delight when I was browsing the furniture offerings at an auction house recently and came…
Posted in furniture
I was about to walk right past the colorful needlepoint upholstered chair at the auction house when the people in the fabric willed me to stop. So I stopped, stood there and watched as they…
I was walking through a maze of vintage and modern furniture at an auction house over the weekend, looked up and thought I was in a jungle. My eyes caught sight of two lovely upholstered chairs…
Most of the auction houses I visit usually have lovely vintage and antique furniture, some of better quality than others. Two of them have the stuff stacked on top of each other so tightly and…
I had just left one auction house and was passing another one when my car wheeled itself into the parking lot after I spotted the “Auction Today” sign out front. I figured it wouldn’t hurt…
To the naked eye, the planks of wood were just that – slabs of natural wood, two shaped liked a boot, the others with fancy edges. But to the trained eye of an artisan, there stood…
As I browsed before an auction recently, I was struck by the unusual colors and designs of several chairs in the furniture room. A Lucite chair with a Mount Rushmore image on its cushion. A lime-green plastic…
I was making my way among the tables of beautiful high-grade colored glassware when I decided to check out the equally high-grade furniture at the auction house. This was one of its Modern Design sales,…
Posted in collectibles, furniture, and Home
As soon as I saw the gumball machine with the white globe, I thought it’d look nifty on my windowed front porch. It stood out among the indoor and outdoor furniture set up on the pavement…
Posted in furniture
I was walking through the furniture room at one of my favorite auction houses recently when I noticed something: Several pieces of furniture – seemingly more than usual – were showing off the work of a…
