I met Hilary Eklund, owner of Tandem Antiques last year on Twitter.  She and her husband Steve have a brick and mortar antique shop in Hudson, New York and sell on Etsy.  We often exchange good morning greetings and she fills us in on her latest finds.  In addition to their shops, they also participate [...]

Celebrate summer in retro style with vintage metal picnic baskets and a 1940’s era metal blade fan from the Pleasanton, California antiques fair

Memorial Day weekend kicked off the bi-annual antiques fair held in the town of Pleasanton, California.  Two hundred vendors lined several blocks of historic Main Street and the assortment of goods [...]

If you are a fan of old furniture, or should I say, furniture parts, especially those that have been salvaged and reincarnated, there’s an artist in London I’d like to tell you about.

Rupert Blanchard is a craftsman in pursuit of old drawers to repurpose into cabinets.  But that’s not quite the whole story because not [...]

First moored off the coast of Nantucket in 1854 in an area known as the South Shoals, lightships (essentially floating lighthouses) were strategically placed around the rocky shores to aid passing ships in navigating around the perilous area.  Crewmen on board would raise whale-oil lanterns at night to guide these vessels.
Spending several months at sea, [...]

To my mind, having a lot of dishes in the house means I’m always ready for the holidays. And since I’m an out-of-sight-out-of-mind type, I love to have them easy to reach and on display.  I’m not much for closed cabinets, which always seem forbidding.
That makes me an old-fashioned dish-dresser person. Nothing shows off dishes [...]

Decorating with a vintage bus scroll.  Photo via Country Living

Vintage graphics are one my favorite forms of art.  Advertising, postcards, labels, I’ve collected, framed and decorated with them for years.  It wasn’t until I was browsing through one of my favorite blogs that I discovered bus scrolls.

Antique dealer and fellow San Francisco Bay Area [...]

One of my early jobs after grad school landed me in the Old Master Painting department of an auction house. I had just left a marquee contemporary New York art gallery with live artists and a vibrant scene and suddenly was thrust into the world of paintings by long-dead Europeans based on historical, allegorical, classical [...]

The wonderful thing about auctions is the way certain objects retain their value although the passage of time has drastically reduced their relevance or use. Take tea caddies, which regularly appear at auction and still fetch high prices even though few people have locked up any tea leaves in fancy wooden boxes for going on [...]

Guest Blogger — Jamie Gibbs, ASID, IFDA, WCAA.
We are delighted to have the well-known New York designer, and our friend, Jamie as a guest. We interviewed Jamie in a series on fabric and ways to use it last month.
With the popularity of floating furniture arrangements, the chaise longue has seen an increased interest. [...]

Rare Duncan Three Face Cake Stand. Frosted stem and base. ca. 1878-1886. Source: Seymour Auctions
Seeing Jane F’s Beverly Hills Cheesecake recipe post the other day started me thinking about decorative ways to display desserts. One of the very first purchases I ever made, and certainly the most used, is my cake stand. [...]

For the past three years, the sprawling Spring Pier Antiques and collectibles show occupied a trio of enclosed piers at 12th Ave. and 55th St., in New York City, requiring a shuttle to ferry shoppers between the immense exhibition spaces.
Yesterday, recession era collectors encountered a highly condensed version of the popular two-day bazaar, reduced to [...]

They were the hub of the library. Dozens of small drawers just large enough to hold an index card awaited each patron that entered the building. With paper and pencil in hand, we stood thumbing through the listings ready to jot down the coded typewritten numbers from cards that would direct us to [...]