An Antiquarian's Tale, Issue 165 January 24, 2022Clinton HowellThe East End of London was an interesting place, but it is not where I went hunting for things to buy and sell, at least not in the early 70"s.
An Antiquarian's Tale, Issue 164 January 17, 2022Clinton HowellThe London College of Furniture in the early 1970's moved from Shoreditch to a brand new white brick building on the Commercial Road, just east of the tube stop, Aldgate...
An Antiquarian's Tale, Issue 163 January 10, 2022Clinton HowellGreatness in the applied arts is, to my way of thinking, quite different than greatness in the fine arts. Making something that is going to be used, a building, a...
An Antiquarian's Tale, Issue 162 January 3, 2022Clinton HowellWhat makes a creative work great? (Not necessarily successful). In Walter Isaacson's biography of Leonardo da Vinci, Isaacson suggests that da Vinci was a man who intellectualized in the extreme....
An Antiquarian's Tale, Issue 161 December 27, 2021Clinton HowellThe rise of the new Covid variant, Omicron, has caused the Winter Antiques Show (WAS) to postpone next month to an unspecified future date. I was asked to come back...
An Antiquarian's Tale, Issue 160 December 20, 2021Clinton HowellThe first Christmas I spent in the U.K. was in 1971 and was unlike any I'd experienced. The food and drink was non-stop beginning December 1st and ending some time...
