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Tour Vartan home near Brownsboro Road

Painted metal chairs flank a metal tray table. Paintings, an ornate mirror and an antique clock from Stockholm line the walls. An antique desk with a ladder-back chair is positioned between the windows, and an antique accent chair sits in a ...

Quinn & Farmer Sale Led By a "Really Heavy Desk Thingy"

The high lot of the sale came with a rather interesting preamble. Ken Farmer told me that when he was assessing a group of consignments, the individual showing him the items stated that there was a “really heavy metal desk thingy” that they wanted to sell....

Delving into the past and presents

At Decades, David Stewart guides me around his unique finds while Chloe, a 12-year-old English mastiff, curls up behind a counter topped with antique figurines and a key-operated doll carousel from the 1880s. One grandfather clock's chime is so rich ...

Thad Woods Auction still going strong after 40 years

An old 5-foot metal neon office sign, a wind-up tabletop Victrola, wooden toys, ornate table settings, 1920s movie posters, vintage clocks, snow shoes and duck decoys are some of the hundreds of items up for sale at a recent Thad Woods Auction in ...

Homeowner furnishes his Lexington mid-century modern house in clean lines

Akey's formal living room downstairs has a turquoise Kroehler Naugahyde sectional couch from 1958; nearby is a towering 11½-foot ear sculpture found in a Bath County antique store that is more recent, but it goes with the décor. A Carl Thore burnished ...

Ken Dixon: An eagle's glorious 7-story flight

Decades of wind, rain, snow and heat finally tired out the metal and its rubber gasket, so a fatal gust tore it up and over the round finial on the flagpole that flies Connecticut's colors above the Capitol's west entrance. And it took He was ...

The 2015 Winter Antiques Show

Todd Prickett of C.L. Prickett, Yardley, Pennsylvania, sold a small four-drawer Philadelphia chest of drawers with a dark old surface and a Connecticut desk-and-bookcase before the first weekend was over. Windsor furniture sold, too. David Schorsch ...

Tour Vartan home near Brownsboro Road

Painted metal chairs flank a metal tray table. An antique drop-leaf table holds the television ... Paintings, an ornate mirror and an antique clock from Stockholm line the walls. "Moustier" upholstered walls create a sophisticated backdrop for her ...

Collectors seek vintage technology

A recent auction featuring furniture, cigar cutters, stoneware crocks, Chippendale furniture and maps was also offering an antique stock ticker. The 11-inch-high machine had a metal label explaining ... Jewelry and desk accessories were made.