Archive for the 'Design' Category

Happy New Year, and Have You Heard of Scowters?

Published on January 18, 2013

Hello all! The holidays have come and gone, and we are almost 3 weeks into the new year! Faster than a speeding bullet, I tell you!

I believe this is going to be an exciting year – we have projects and opportunities everywhere we turn! So let’s just say it’s 2013 is going to rock. There, settled that.

Today I’m announcing Project #1: Scowters!

What, you ask, is that? It’s a coast-to-coast conglomerate of dealers who have gotten together and organized weekly flash sales. This is a truly diverse and talented bunch, dealing in many genres including high-end modern design,…

Books are Beautiful – Inside and Out

Published on November 27, 2011

One might think that, as a purveyor of fine antiques and other old things, I would be a hard-line purist when it comes to books. Someone who waxes poetic about the smell of old books and the feel of the paper between the fingers. The joy of hours wiled away among tall shelves in dusty bookshops. And so on.

While that aptly describes more than one of my favorite people (and you know who you are), it is actually not me. Not that I don’t love to read, because I do! But because…well, let me explain.

Two things come into…

Introducing Estate Design & Trade

Published on November 18, 2011

The hands-down best part of our foray into the High Point Furniture Market in October was meeting people. Not just any people, but really cool people with interesting merchandise or a great eye for design. And a few really cool people who we connected with and now consider real friends. You can’t take things like this for granted.

Meet Steph Schofield and Joel Sarvis, partners in the newly minted

Estate Design & Trade

(Photos shamelessly stolen from their website.)

This totally fun, creative pair are going places. I’m…