Just added to the shop — this totally cool and unusual set of hooks that hangs from the ceiling.  They measure 50″ from the ceiling hook to the bottom, but if that’s not quite long enough for you, they are adjustable.  You just twist the rod and slide it down to the next little notch, [...]

 
   
It feels late coming this year.  Even as the seemingly endless winter finally faded, it took a long time for spring to arrive.  But it’s official – it is now our favorite time of year here at Tandem Antiques.  
I don’t care too much about the streams thawing out, or the sap running (although I do [...]

                                      
Do you love MCM but are on a tight budget?  Do you yearn to surround yourself with great design, but live in a shoebox?  Then read on …
                                     
This is definitely the coolest item we are listing on etsy this week.  A three-piece set of miniature furniture, with awesome mid-century style!  Toy furniture with hairpin legs [...]

We are here at my mom’s house in North Carolina, enjoying a break from upstate NY’s seemingly never-ending winter.  It is unmistakably spring here, with dogwoods, forsythia, and azalea all in beautiful bloom.  And it is Monday, and therefore time for the Coolest … something.
For some reason my thoughts went back to Christmas several years [...]

 
I know, I know.  The Coolest is supposed to run on Monday.  I can’t explain it – I lost almost a week in here somewhere.  However I will try to make it up to you by sharing the best piece of industrial furniture we have found in quite a while. 
                         
This 19th c. worktable came [...]

                                        
It must be Monday.  I know because its time for our weekly “the Coolest” post.  And this week the hands-down, no-contest winner of the Coolest badge is Flipper, our fiberglass dolphin.  He resided in the window of Warren Street Antiques, our shop in Hudson, for exactly four hours before being purchased and taken away.  But [...]

 
                 
Our collection of bristol glass is displayed in our bedroom, in a black showcase alongside collections of mercury glass, copper lustre and tramp art boxes.  The rich clear turquoise color of this glass energizes me and makes me happy.  I love the way it pops against the deep Benjamin Moore Fireball orange of our bedroom walls (which are not as [...]

 
We were digging around in an old barn one day last fall when we found this pair of ceramic lamp bases.  It was the second day of the sale and the place was pretty picked over.  They were surrounded by not very old Christmas decorations and various household tchochke.   It was so dark in there, and they were [...]

       
Yesterday we had the pleasure of attending the wedding of our friends Rick Rogers and June Patterson.  It was a small gathering, and we were honored to be included.  The ceremony and reception were held in the same space, and they were meaningful and lovely. 
Rick and June are antique dealers in Fort Plain NY, and with the [...]

I love bakelite, even if it is not worth what it used to be.  It has wonderful qualities that are unlike other vintage plastics.  Bakelite colors tend to be rich and saturated, it was intricately carved and worked, and it has a nice weight in the hand.  I am attracted to it whenever I see it, [...]