Three family heirlooms are going off to auction. As long as anyone in my family can remember, three pieces of Tiffany metal ware have been among our most prized possessions. Our late Mother was much enamored of these which, as her version of the story went, were given to her father by one of his [...]
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Clutter Perfection
Collections of objects offer messages about passion, history and personality. I often marvel at the consistency of what people collect. Perhaps that’s because I’m easily distracted and like a variety of things that falls short of a look. Or, perhaps I’m simply not sufficiently obsessed with one type of object, color or shape. When I [...]
My Final Yard Sale
Like so many collectors, I love my “stuff” and it took a huge effort to decide what to keep and what to let go. Over the past three months, since the big move from the city to our house, I’ve been unpacking, sorting, labeling contents of the 80 plus boxes and slowly clearing the garage, [...]
Old, Crazy Tableware
One thing that makes me so partial to English majolica is the silly foodie-ness of it all. Before I ever heard the word majolica, I already owned a soup tureen shaped like a head of green cabbage. I’ve been eyeballing sets of those salad plates shaped like green lettuce leaves for years — you know [...]
Fiestaware
America’s most colorful dinnerware has been a popular favorite for nearly a century. At its initial introduction by the Homer Laughlin China Company in 1936, Fiesta was produced in five colors: Red (orange red), Blue (cobalt), Green (light green), Yellow (deep golden), and Old Ivory (yellowish cream). In 1937 a sixth color was added: Turquoise [...]
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