Spring has come to the Northern Neck

Spring is here and time for spring cleaning! All winter long we have been buying trying to fill our shop with really nice pieces. We looked around and we were beginning to look like a ware house. Oops, that's not what we're about. Reorganizing 8,400 sq feet is not a little feat. We called in extra help. Lewis and our good friend Sara Grace are attempting the impossible. Already within hours there has been vast changes. Spaces have opened up and items rediscovered. They are redefining space and perhaps even time. Our Art Gallery section has been disbursed through out the building. You saw photos of the before in a previous blog. Here is a new photo of the cleaned up shop. Check out the difference! We still ave a few days work to do.

Here is a photo of our favorite greeter my Mom and Lewis' grandmother.

The Famous Mr. Beane -The Hair of the Camel

He might not be famous any place else, but in Virginia and the eastern seaboard, Maurice Beane, has become some one to know. He is an artist having his training at V.C.U. a designer working with metal. He has designed furniture, elaborate railings. But as a persona, he is extremely well known. If you go into any shop in Virginia, or for that matter up and down the east coast, and mention his name more than likely the person you are talking to will say, "oh yes I know Maurice." He knows 20th century furniture and decorative pieces better than just about anybody. If we need something and can not find it, you betcha Maurice can.

Francois-Xavier Lalanne Camel Sofa

Now we have the tale of a man and his camel. Maurice purchased this camel which turns out is a sofa in Richmond, Virginia. It was then sold to a New York dealer. The camel was designed and fabricated by the French husband and wife artists, Claude & Francois-Xavier Lalanne.If you want more of this tale click here.

Bad Brad Stephens All Folked Up

I have been blogging about the shops in Kilmarnock, VA. One very prominent persona in town is the fabulous Brad Stephens. Brad is a man of many talents. He is a published playwright. He is a talented artist and folk art collector. He can take all sorts of odd and unusual items and put them together to make something out of this world.
So it is of no surprise to us that when we brought in a doctor's examination table from the thirties that Brad went absolutely crazy over it. You will have to visit his Blog http://bradstephensfoundobjects.blogspot.com/. Brad works for Comer and Co. if you'd like to meet him in person.