Tag Archives: Antique Dealers

Book Worm

May 28, 2010UncategorizedAntique DealersMrs. Blandings

Not that I endorse buying books for decoration, these two sets have an appeal that is difficult to deny. Those faded blue linen covers. Like your best jeans on good day.

And these. I can’t remember exactly, but I think they relate to engineering. Primers on railroad locations and such.

Both sets available at the River Market Antique Mall. Second floor, northeast corner I think. Far right as you come up the stairs.

My Kind of Town

April 27, 2010UncategorizedAntique Dealers, design books, DesignersMrs. Blandings

Right. Painting, packing, primping to get ready for DbD on Friday (really Thursday as Thursday is set up.) Oh! And. And I’m going to Chicago Friday morning. Chicago really came first. That is, the plan to go to Chicago came first, then I decided to do the table and turn my entire family’s week upside down. My friend who looks like a young Carolina Herrera said, “Yeah. Sometimes you have to do stuff like that.”

I’ve never had a bad time in Chicago and with my saying that you should know that I once was involved in an U Haul accident that took out a cash machine there on New Year’s Eve. This trip had a similar evolution. I had told Thomas O’Brien that I would come up and hear him speak when he was in Chicago, then my on-line friend Magnaverde emailed to say, “O’Brien is coming on the 30th,” and all of a sudden the entire design universe seemed to align.

Really, seeing O’Brien, meeting Magna, I couldn’t quite imagine anything better and then Rick Ege emailed to say that he would be exhibiting at the International Antique Fair (also in the Merchandise Mart) and I almost fell out of my chair. Ege’s shop is in St. Louis and I keep up on it on Rick’s blog. He’s friends with Christopher Filley just so you know we are all peas in a pod.

But wait, it gets better. As fortune would have it, I will also have the opportunity to meet Marija, who writes the blog Holding Court. If you haven’t checked it out, you should; Marija’s got a good thing going over there.

I’d say come out to hear O’Brien, but I fear his talk and book signing are full. Still, the Antique Fair should be great. I can’t wait. I just hope there aren’t police. With the cash machine thing there were police.

Images from top, Rick Ege’s wares at the Chicago Botanic Garden Antiques Fair last week. Don’t fall in love with those Saarinen chairs as they sold, but the terrific botanicals in the silver leaf frames could be yours. Marija’s stylish tablescape via Holding Court and Thomas O’Brien.

At Christopher Filley’s Today

April 16, 2010UncategorizedAntique DealersMrs. Blandings

Working. I was working. But I would have loved to have had Chris wrap this all up for me to take home. You can’t really see the painting that is leaning on the chest, but I haven’t stopped thinking about it all day.

Mud Pies

February 25, 2010UncategorizedAntique Dealers, DesignersMrs. Blandings

I was just telling local antique dealer, Rich Hoffman, “I have all these brown things. I don’t think I have enough stuff, yet I look around and I have all these brown things. And if you asked me, ‘Do you like brown things?’ I would say, ‘No, not really.'” I was telling him because I was admiring something brown at his and Christopher Filley’s shop.

Then, I ran across this picture of Steven Gambrel’s Sag Harbor entry. Featuring a bunch of brown things. Maybe I’m on to something.

Image from Annie Kelly’s Rooms to Inspire in the Country; photography by Tim Street-Porter.

Wonderfully Cutting

December 16, 2009UncategorizedAntique Dealers, DesignersMrs. Blandings

Ever see grand rooms like this and admire them, but think they have nothing to do with you and your dream house?

Think again.

So many classic design concepts can be applied to a variety of contemporary interior styles.

Here, George Terbovich has used a very similar concept as the print room in Yester House, above. Instead of etchings and swags he has applied images from the book, “Letters to Giorgio” by the late Jean-Michel Folon. Click the images and you will see charming illustrations from Falon to his friend. They are decidedly personal as the recipient of the letter and the shop owner share the same name.

Images, top, from In House by Mitchell Owens, photography by Derry Moore.