Christie’s sale of English furniture on Monday in New York includes some 18th-century Irish antiques, each carefully notated in the catalog with a typically Irish winged-harp symbol. The harp is helpful, because it can be difficult to identify 18th-century Irish antiques.
Even experts become confused, but help is on the way. Yale University Press has just published “Irish Furniture,” by Desmond FitzGerald, an expert in Irish antiques, and James Peill, a furniture specialist at Christie’s New York. The book has been in the works for more than 40 years.
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Nowadays, buying antiques can cost you an arm and a leg. This is because, apart from being considered as one of the best ways to decorate your home, buying antiques have also become an investment option for some people. Unfortunately, this newfound use for antiques has resulted to some of the highest prices for antiques, which have made them very unaffordable for most people. This is very true for antique furniture because in some cases even the simplest piece of antique furniture can cost several thousand dollars.
However, furniture manufacturers have found a way to make people who cannot afford antique furniture enjoy the charm that antique furniture can bring to a home through antique reproductions. Unfortunately, this innovation has also encouraged some unscrupulous people to fool people out of their money by making them believe that they are buying original antique items. Given this, consumers need to be able to distinguish reproductions from the real thing.
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If you are thinking of investing in antique items, you would be surprised at the things that you first need to know before you go out and buy antique items. This is because, as with any other purchase, there are a number of things that you need to research so that you can avoid making a mistake in your purchases. Nowadays, this has become very true for antiques because of the proliferation of antique reproductions, which can make finding authentic antique items very confusing. One example that you should know with regard to antique items is the language that antique sellers and antique enthusiast use to describe items. This is because knowing the language they speak can greatly help you with your decisions.
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Boca Do Lobo is a custom furniture store and manufacturer. I am not sure of the pricing, but this item is top quality. The Jay folding room divider will create a break in different rooms and offer a very artistic look as well.Handcrafted this is a four-winged folding screen, of solid oak wood, beech tree or mahogany. Support in solid wood with finish in lacquer colour, black, white and possibility to lacquer in several colours.
dimensions
width: 140 cm / 52.12"
depth: 2 cm / 0.79"
height: 190 cm / 74.80"
Pieces will be featured on set of movie
HIGH POINT -- Henredon Furniture and Traditional Home magazine are teaming up to give away furniture featured in the upcoming movie "The Nanny Diaries."
Four consumers will win furniture that is valued at $15,000 and, according to the sponsors, will bring some of the panache of the movie's New York setting into the winners' homes.
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