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Are you renting and stuck with “Landlord White” everywhere? Do not despair. Portable antiques can help humanise your bland white box. Good furniture, particularly chairs, is always sculptural, regardless of age. Buy excellent quality furniture and wherever you find your new apartment shell, you take your real home with you. This Jasper Conran room does… Continue Reading
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Lifetime Antique Furniture and Seasonal Ikea Accents
In this room “consumer superdurables” such as the Georgian mahogany furniture, the Victorian art work and the antique silver, porcelain and glass are contrasted with a dramatic and colourful Modern rug. It clearly illustrates my philosophy of having long lasting, investment quality antiques, jazzed up with inexpensive and easily replaced contemporary accessories. This is where… Continue Reading
Antiques, Body Image and Fashion. Metrosexual to Hipster and beyond.
Architecture, furniture and homewares, clothing and even bodies are subject to the same themes in fashion at any given time. All are subject to the same impulses. The Calvin Klein ad of the 1990s shows the smooth, streamlined Minimalist look of the period. This is expressed in body manipulation by lack of body hair and… Continue Reading
18th century French Games Table in Chateau, and in Roy’s Antiques Shop.
This image shows the interior of the grand salon of Barbentane, a chateau in Provence*. In the centre of the room sits a games table very similar to the one we have in stock. Charming Louis XV open armchairs and sofas provide seating comfort. While the white paint is typical of the Louis XV period… Continue Reading
Marilyn Monroe at Home with Her Antiques
Marilyn Monroe at Home with Her Antiques. This photograph shows Marilyn Monroe in her apartment in Los Angeles about 1950. Notably, in making it “homey for Joe ” DiMaggio, Marilyn chose seventeenth and eighteenth century furnishings. Nor was she alone in Hollywood, where many of the great stars went home from the set to fine… Continue Reading