Archive for the 'rentals' 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 [...]
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 [...]
For 2011, Bigger Changes
Sunday, January 2nd, 2011There has never been a time of such dramatic changes in the art and antiques industry. Certainly the last decade brought a steady diet of 20th Century in both paintings and decorative arts as a style trend, but the forms and methods of transaction have also been evolving. With the newest auction methods, the Sotheby’s/Christie’s [...]
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 Waterloo”? In [...]
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 artistic skill. [...]
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 with little [...]