At Home: Telling the 'good old' from the 'bad old"
11.03.10
WHENEVER I carriage through an antique have faith, or an antique mall (Pardon me, but does "old mall" reach anyone else as an anachronism? Did they have malls in the 1800s?), I have the same two questions.
First, who would buy that? Although I see the appeal of many generation furnishings, some hit me as retired for meet reason: haggard rugs, headless Russian dolls, dilapidated racks, rusted draw off jugs. Gravely?
However, when I do find something I like, a other question arises. How would that fit in at my vicinity? The answer most of the time is, "Not well." And I'm left pondering why other people can diminish home old furnishings (not good antiques, which technically must be 100 or older) and they look respectable and add character, but when I try, it looks as if I've been Dumpster diving.
This doubt is suddenly high-ranking to me. Not only because reusing what we already have is morally, fiscally and environmentally leading, but also because my husband said if I bought one more new break down of furniture I could go existent with it in the park.
But he didn't say anything about buying old gear.
So I pinned down Eron Johnson, who's been in the outmoded trade for more than 40 years and owns Eron Johnson Antiques in Denver, and asked him: How do you acknowledge good old from bad old? And, once you do, how can you for it work in your domestic?
He answered with two words: "Characteristic" and "context."
In sifting what's honesty a possessions and possibly valuable out of, say, a garage cut-price, how well something is made and its heritage content more than looks, he says.
Source: Inside Bay Area