Archive for the 'New York City' Category
1st Dibs and the future of consignment
Tuesday, April 16th, 2013For a dealer, the consignment option has equal if not more value than to an auctioneer. Consigned inventory is controlled inventory, and how you sell it depends upon a liquidation time frame. There are many options that dealers could offer, like being a conduit for consignors to the technology of 1st Dibs while also offering [...]
Living With Diversity
Sunday, March 10th, 2013Wake up and smell the roses, and how many different colors for the same smell. The decorative arts too have so many designs and forms that all showcase human development. I can’t image being overly specialized or minimalized with what I might be living with in my home or office. Perhaps those two environments might [...]
Free Admission to Galleries and Auctions, Why not Fairs
Monday, January 21st, 2013There is reluctance in the Trade, about being able to attract new and especially younger people as to what we sell. Starting with the image of the word “antique”, what might that conjured up in the mind of a smart-phone packing 20/30 year old? We’re in an industry that specialized is turning off the next [...]
My Bully Pulpit For Regulation; AAD
Sunday, January 6th, 2013The AAD (art-antiques-design.com) website has quite frankly, been publishing some of my “old blogs”, which somehow I find really refreshing. They make me think that this industry faces the same issues. However, I enjoy responding to some of the comments on my blog and making comments on other AAD blogs. There is as interaction on [...]
It Can’t be True, Disclosure?
Thursday, October 25th, 2012I guess if you live long enough perhaps you will think the impossible can really happen. Is the mighty shield of auction secrecy about to be broken; perhaps. It boggles my mind trying to comprehend the recent opinion of the New York State Supreme Court’s Appellate Division rendering the legal need for an auctioneer to [...]
The Show @ Newel
Tuesday, October 9th, 2012This coming Tuesday, Newel is celebrating Jim Aman and John Meeks at “Open House NYC” and Newel’s re-launch Anniversary, and what a show we are having! Jim and John are combining their talents to create two special windows that ooze with style, taste, and a creative mix of our inventory. Funny, when they each did [...]
A Look Back, Newel in the 1950’s
Tuesday, February 14th, 2012It is sometime in the late 1950s and Cecil Beaton comes knocking at the door, or rather in those days, just walking right in. He probably was here to hopefully do the sets for a Broadway show or for whatever! He knew Newel and loved being there to play. And so it was at Newel [...]
The Show is Newel
Friday, February 11th, 2011I really love the tag line “The Show is Newel”. It says everything about this company and how antiques are used. As the term “decorative arts” applies to furniture and furnishing (the Playbill description of Newel’s credit for supplying sets to Broadway shows in the 1930-70’s), they are part of a lifestyle as reflected in [...]
Doing the Right Thing
Monday, December 6th, 2010One of the best complements I ever received was from a client who purchased something prior to my ownership of the company. A situation happened with that client several years later, after I bought the company which required me to examine the importance of one’s reputation. She taught me a lesson on humility and said [...]
You Want Vetting?
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010Besides looking at interesting and good merchandise as presented in a “fancy” antiques show, like the Haughton International Fine Art and Antiques Show in New York last week, it’s really fun to find the fakes or disastrously put together items. Vetting? Excuse me! One of my favorite all time “finds” in one of those upscale [...]