Posts under ‘Decorative & Painted Furniture’

A Few Photo Momentos From Earlier London Decoratove Antiques & Textiles Fairs
For those of you not familiar with the offering at the wonderful Decorative Antiques Fair, I thought I’d show some images of exhibitors and visitors from antiques fairs last year.
Of course there’ll be new pieces but none of them will be any newer! If [...]

Blanchard At London’s Decorative Antiques Fair
Orlando Harris has many fans amongst his clientele… “Orlando Harris is a great pleasure to deal with – makes collecting fun with his irreverent eye” says David Linley, and designer to the stars Nicky Haslam comments: “Orlando has the most exceptional eye and an amazing knack for finding rare and [...]

Quirky & Eclectic at The Decorative Fair…
Drew Pritchard joins the Decorative Antique Fair from Conwy in Wales, with a pleasing variety of architectural, garden, decorative & country house antiques.
The photo Drew has sent us of gives a good idea of the slightly quirky look and of the mix of stock he will bring to the [...]

Some Antiques Are 1960’s: Some Antiques Are 380 Million Years
Come to the Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair in London’s Battersea May 3-8th 2011 and you can see another of our previous & experienced exhibitors. Jonathan Swire was one of the dealers who first brought fossils as ’sculpture’ to the Decorative Fair.  These have become very popular [...]

Haute Decor & Design Blogs About Our Antique & Textiles Fair – Nice Pictures…

I hope that Maria doesn’t mind but I’ve borrowed one of her pictures… you can see the rest at her Haute Decor blog.  The pictures are better than mine so before I show some of these, look at this  – just one [...]

What Sold At The Decorative Antique & Textiles Fair: Part 2
Painted furniture was ‘on trend’ in April at London’s most popular event for decorators who seek unusual antiques and statement pieces for interior design… Here are two examples of antique Continental pieces that sold at the April 2010 antiques fair:
A late C19th petite French bookcase (small [...]

Spring Antique Fair Review To Follow…
  
Meanwhile… they’re putting their heads together to make the Autumn fair a classic too – like these sycamore wood milliners’ heads (German circa 1920). These were shown by Spencer Swaffer (a new exhibitor at the Spring Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair), alongside a Swedish sofa, circa 1800, in original warm apricot [...]

Since the Sofia Coppola film of Marie Antoinette was released several years ago, the elegant ornamentation of 18th century rococo and neo-classical French styles has been strongly influencing the contemporary design world. Furniture such as Starck/Kartell’s ‘Ghost’ chair kick-started the movement, and John Reeves’ ‘Louis’ range for Heals incorporates rococo curves in a new way.
Now, [...]

Yes We Have No Bananas*
We pictured a wonderful Dutch C.18th bombe commode the other day (as seen here again) in a piece about mixing styles up (antique & modern/exotic) as part of the interior design mode.  And in doing so it made me worry that with all the efforts that we put in here to make sure [...]