An Antiquarian's Tale

The pleasure of finding something rare and unusual that others might have overlooked is, unfortunately, the rarest of happenings. The internet has changed the market completely as people will bid,...

I am writing this while at the Winter Antiques Show. (Postponed from its January time slot for this one year.) In retrospect, it is hard to draw a direct line...

There were no summers, or summers as I knew them which meant temperatures between 70-90 degrees Fahrenheit, the first three years I lived in the UK. The very first summer...

One of the fun aspects of building out the exhibitions that we occasionally did in London in the early 1970's was in being able to go behind the scenes, in...

The earliest finishers, for example, used whatever was at hand, but when cabinet shops became more sophisticated, finishers were entrusted by cabinetmakers to show off their woodworking skills.

I have talked extensively about finishes over the years and the role that a finish has in abetting great color. (It should be noted that the finish is not the...