While the antiques industry seems to be in a contraction mode with fewer shows and lower gate numbers, you wouldn't know it from a popular market in Chicago. Vintage Markets like the Randolph Street Market Festival have been able to repeatedly attract a young, educated and affluent customer who is knowledgeable about the products and … Continue reading Dealers Look to Vintage Markets to Reach New Customers
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A Conversation with Norman Schaut
Advertising man and legendary antique show promoter Norman Schaut took some time out today to talk with Urabn Art & Antiques about his first show in Atlantic City and the return of his Antique City, Fun Fair for Collectors outside of Philadelphia. I started by asking Schaut why he was willing to give away some … Continue reading A Conversation with Norman Schaut
Life Insurance Exec Portraits from Smithsonian being offered through Pook & Pook
Scrolling through the upcoming auctions last night on LiveAuctioneers, I noticed several portraits being offered were the property of the North American Life Insurance Company. I was unfamiliar with it, but apparently it combined with Connecticut General to form CIGNA. The history dates back to Philadelphia in the 1790s. Portraits of life insurance executives are … Continue reading Life Insurance Exec Portraits from Smithsonian being offered through Pook & Pook
Boomers, Baked Goods and the Brooklyn Flea
A living organism, a vintage market for America's biggest city, a feeder for Manhattan Antique shows, the best cruising spot in New York, the Brooklyn Flea is a lot of things to a lot of people. It may even be helping to establish the Brooklyn look in interior design. I had the opportunity to speak … Continue reading Boomers, Baked Goods and the Brooklyn Flea
Mad Men Finds Are Part of the Top Vintage Finds for Fall at Randolph Street Fashion Expo
Thanks to the hit TV series Mad Men the '60s are back and fans of the show will be finding the best the era had to offer at Modern Vintage Chicago Fall Fashion and Jewelry Explosion by the Randolph Street Market Festival. "Other popular series like Six Feet Under and the Sopranos didn't have the … Continue reading Mad Men Finds Are Part of the Top Vintage Finds for Fall at Randolph Street Fashion Expo
When Antiques Were Expected
In an episode of the third season of Mad Men, Betty Draper has an interior decorator redo the living room. Betty adds her own touch after spotting a fainting couch in the window of an antique store. The decorator comments on the addition saying "you've ruined the whole room. If you insist on keeping it, … Continue reading When Antiques Were Expected
Second Growth Furniture
I spotted this ad yesterday for "Colonial work tables." As this early 20th Century ad has demonstrated, the classical/colonial style has remained popular with peaks and valleys for a long time. I was watching an episode of Mad Men last night and the 1960s dining room was decorated with Phyfe-looking furniture. Once we get to … Continue reading Second Growth Furniture
Winterthur Conference Skips Forward A Century
Perhaps Henry Francis Du Pont would find it odd, but a new program at his Delaware home turned museum extraordinaire is focusing on the era when he collected rather that the era of his collections. Chic it Up! Winterthur Design Conference in November will focus on the 1950's Theater of Tradition and Technology. A brochure … Continue reading Winterthur Conference Skips Forward A Century
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