We've been "tiquing"

Sundays are not always the best day to go looking, but hey you never know what you will find. We always look for the unusual, and yesterday we ran into some interesting items. The most unlikely thing we found was a lucite optical cat from the 60's signed by the Brazilian Artist, Abraham Palatnik. We looked up the artist and found that he worked with Cinecromático art. Here is a you tube video to watch by Palatnik.
The cat we found has been used by the designer Johnathan Adler in some of his designs. So our little lucite opty cat has become quite the cat about town. Who knew!

On the other hand and to the extreme other end of the spectrum is the piece Lewis picked up during the week. He found an E. F. Caldwell Lamp. This lamp has an Chinese Ox Blood vase with ormolu bronze fittings. Caldwell designed early electric sconces and chandeliers as well as lamps. He was to early electric fixtures and lamps what Tiffany was to glass in the early 20th century. He started out as a portrait painter, and became a designer of decorative arts as an after thought. Caldwell lamps are rarer than his sconces and ceiling fixtures.

The fun thing about being able to go "tiquing" is that you never know where your finds will lend you or what stories or people you will discover..

Too Busy

We have been busy. We are in the process of selling two pieces to the designers at Kelly Wearstler and another piece that is scheduled to be in an up coming magazine spread. The nice thing about being on line is that you get to be on the edge of exciting things and meet some really nice people. Lewis has also been very busy traveling all across the state and we have alot of new things coming in. We have a shop that is 8,400 square feet. I never thought that we would be able to fill the spot. We originally started out as an Antique mall. Almost seven years later we are a single owner spot with only a few friends in the shop. We are literally bursting at the seams. The latest pieces that we have acquired are 6 early Hans Wegner "Y" chairs with the burned in signature and a dining room table. Those wishbone "Y" chairs are really beautiful and classic.

WOW! Elle Decor

Yesterday we bought an Elle Decor Magazine and we both flipped through it quickly. This morning, however Lewis started studying each entry carefully checking out the pages of the different designers to become familiar with the various designers. All of a sudden he saw a John Dickinson style table that we had sold awhile ago in a room setting. It was our table! Check out the golden rock table on page 91 of the March 2010 issue of Elle Decor