Archive for the 'rentals' Category
Hoping For the Best, Antique Furniture
Saturday, February 13th, 2010In the commercial world of decorative and fine arts, the present economic environment has been tough on many areas of the industry, but especially hard on furniture. Is it price, design, or is it not minimalist enough? As one esteemed dealer at the Winter Antiques show lamented to me, was this “English furniture’s […]
Decorative and Fine Arts, as Props Around Us
Thursday, March 6th, 2008Presentation is everything, for selling, image, or a person’s own self esteem. The forms of presentation for decorative and fine arts can be seen in museums, homes, auction house exhibitions, or a movie or theatre set. These items were made not only to be representative of their era, but to exhibit taste and […]
The Antiques Trade, It’s Now a Big Show
Thursday, January 31st, 2008The antiques trade has seen a vast change in how dealers procure and turnover inventory. Today, you don’t have large numbers of American dealers and decorators annually making multiple grand buying trips to Europe, or for that matter Europeans with their over valued Euro doing that here. You do see dealers getting older […]