Tag Archives: antiques

An End-of-Summer Excursion to Hudson

September 7, 2017

Prototype brass and leather lamps at Steven McKay's shop.Slideshow

While Robert and I would rather have been at the beach, we decided to take an excursion to Hudson, New York, on a rainy Sunday. The town is always a place for inspiration. There are so many interesting objects (and some awful ones as well) that it is like going on a scavenger hunt. While I was not looking for anything in particular, it was fun to simply identify things I liked.

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Treasures from the San Francisco Fall Antiques Show

November 29, 2015

A colorful carousel horse decked out with flowers. Slideshow

The San Francisco Fall Antiques Show is one of the design world’s premier events in October. The venue is spectacular: The Fort Mason Center is located right on San Francisco Bay, so not only are there beautiful things to see inside but the view outside is breathtaking as well. Highly sophisticated dealers participate, and many save their most unique and highy prized objects just for this show. The visual display is dazzling from the moment you walk in the door.

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Very Rich & Handsome

November 18, 2015

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VERY RICH & HANDSOME is the name of an exhibition at the Hirschl & Adler Galleries in the Crown Building at 730 Fifth Avenue, New York. As part of my museum and antiques show hopping in New York in January, I especially wanted to see this extraordinary group of American Neo-Classical decorative arts. The title of the show was extracted from an 1820 document by Abby Breese Salisbury who described a group of furniture she had commissioned from the Boston cabinet making firm of Issac Vose & Son in the early days of the 19th century. While great furniture was made in Boston at that time, other cabinetmaking centers were well established New York, Baltimore and Philadelphia. The show has examples from all of these centers and each piece is more refined and elegant than the next.

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Charles Spada: Boston Design Center

November 24, 2012

The Boston showroom of Charles Spada is always a beehive of activity. Here is the elegant Charles at the center of it.Slideshow

Charles Spada is the reigning Francophile of the Boston Design Center. He has loved all things French since childhood and had long wanted to buy a house in France. A serendipitous late night internet connection with an online real estate site delivered him, a week later, to a house in a quaint Norman hamlet that was to become his home in France and the outpost for his collecting inclinations.

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