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Living with antiques: A collection of Victorian decorative arts
The collection of Victorian works of art and furniture that is the subject of this article consumers every available inch of a Regency villa in the south of England. The collectors have formed this...(Continue Reading) Inventions. . - Books about Antiques - 'Inventing the 19th Century: 100 Inventions that Shaped the Victorian Age: From Aspirin to the Zeppelin' - book
Axiomatically, necessity is the mother of invention, unless you work in a patent office, where a huge number of orphaned inventions seek mothers. A delightful wallow in eccentricities, and many use...(Continue Reading)Britisk campaign furniture - antiques - Brief Article
Every so often an article published in this magazine becomes the foundation for a book or an exhibition. This is the case on both counts for Nicholas ......(Continue Reading)Notebook: antiques are old news thanks to City slickers reading Wallpaper and shopping at Heal's
It might have been a jolly season for some, but things have never looked so grim for those whose livelihoods depend on turned legs and a beautiful piece ......(Continue Reading)Movin' up, not out: living large in the 'hood - family in Brooklyn, NY's Bedford-Stuyvesant buys four-story Victorian house which has increased markedly
From the calm of their elegant, sunsplashed town house, Cheryl and Harvey Lawrence seem light-years away from a neighborhood so often portrayed as dangerous and deprived. For 16 years they have en...(Continue Reading)
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