One of the neatest things we have found lately is this antique lidded tea box that someone hand painted all around with hunt scenes.  It still retains its brass hardware, and it is a charming piece for the horse or hunt collector.
The surface, however, is somewhat delicate – you wouldn’t want to put a glass [...]

Just a quick post to point out the new category in our online shop (see all those alluring Categories over there in the sidebar?)  Fine Art and Design books have arrived!
We have had opportunities in the last few years to acquire some wonderful art and design books, some of them out of print and relatively [...]

The vast majority of dogs in our collection are old – vintage, antique, aging, gracefully or not.  This little guy is an exception.  I bought this print on etsy a couple of years ago because I just loved his face.  His name is Bandit.

The artist is Pey Lu and you can check out her etsy [...]

I’ve alluded before to the fact that we love dog things – paintings, figures, folk art.  So I’m thinking it would be fun to feature one of our dogs here on the blog each week.  (A blog dog — say that 3 times fast!) It will be interesting to see how many weeks it will [...]

Our friends Bobby & Janet Sherwood and David & Bonnie Ferriss, who together run Antiques at 30B in Cambridge NY, will also be exhibiting at The Albany Show next week.  They collectively have a terrific eye for early and interesting antiques.  They carry fabulous cupboards, tables and other bigs – one of my favorite items [...]

The new merch we bought yesterday is everywhere!  This is my life – we go out and fill the van, but then we’re too busy or exhausted to unload it.  Then the next morning Steve has to rush off to the shop in Hudson so anything that isn’t going directly there ends up on the [...]

I took my camera to the shop yesterday.  I always intend to bring it, but rarely actually remember to do so.  I didn’t do anything fancy, but just walked around with the camera in my hand, and took pictures as items caught my eye – whether it was capturing a whole object, or just a [...]

 
I love photography, but I am a bad picture-taker.  Or maybe I should say I am a bad recorder - of events, family life, my children.  Thank goodness for my mother-in-law or we might not have any record at all of birthdays, Christmases.  I am more apt to be snapping a picture of some interesting lichen growing [...]

 
                       
 
Welcome to the first in a regular Monday series here at TA&D — the Coolest.   The coolest what will vary – the coolest thing we found this week, or the coolest project in the works, or the coolest thing we brought into the shop, or…
This week it is the Official Coolest Item going [...]

When Steven was in the shop on Friday he took a couple of photos of some of our display, including our gigantic stainless steel bowl.  We were bandying about ideas for the use of such a big bowl – an over-the-top centerpiece display (you could practically use watermelons as if they were lemons!), tossed salad for [...]