"The aim of art is not to represent the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance".
---------Aristotle...
Vestibule - bourgeois & art furniture
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Modern ANTIQUE furniture:
We keep warm childhood memories. All the furniture that we used to play around brings them back.Speaking of ‘ANTIQUE’ furniture, can we define the term?
According to young consumers in their 20s and 30s who are now building up their own home, furniture from the 1980s is considered ANTIQUE. At the same time, solvent collectors are more interested in items dating back to 1800s and 1850s.
Dynamism of today's economic environment strongly affects the supply/demand ratio in the furniture business. Trends are changing at a hectic rate. Yesterday’s hot design is now RETRO or vintage.
ANTIQUE furniture is not only bought for practical purposes. It is usually considered a symbol of a certain status. Antique furniture speaks on the behalf if its owner.
Due to the credit boom in
Modern antique furniture – this is no longer a paradox. It is a term used to label restored authentic furniture that is in high demand. It is the best time to invest in long term assets such as antique furniture from 1850s - 1900s.So, what is Modern ANTIQUE furniture?
Beautiful pieces. No gilded ornaments.Simple, high tech friendly design. -
What we don’t know about antique furniture:
Today, when we talk about restored antique furniture, it is not enough to specify the age of the piece. Whether it is Chippendale or Louis XVII, it is not what matters most to buyers.In times when you can choose between 60 000 items in just one Chinese web portal, classics need labels to be recognizable.
----So what are antiquarians looking for?
Furniture, that had been made years before we were born, is a piece of art. People who sell it, are very careful about positioning it. There is always a story to be told – a tale or even a legend meant to inspire you and feel the emotion that you need in your home.According to McClatchy NewspapersKANSAS CITY, Mo. — Trends in antique furniture circle in and out of favor like painted ponies on a vintage carousel.Biedermeier and mid-century modern are riding high, while Mission and French Empire are fading.
Mark Howald, executive vice president of St. Louis auction house Ivey-Selkirk, says there’s a logic behind the simultaneous popularity of seemingly disparate styles.“We’re seeing a move toward a minimalist look across all styles,” Howald said. Biedermeier, created in Germany and Austria from 1815 to 1848, and mid-century modern furniture are both architectural with clean lines.Two other clean-lined styles that are popular now are English Regency and French Directoire, says Keitha Kaminski, director of Webster House Antiques.Generational changeEverybody wants to have something like they remember their parents or their grandparents having. The familial furnishings that each successive generation recalls (and wants to emulate or reject) change every 10 to 20 years.
Mid-century modern, which most auction houses and dealers agree is the biggest trend at the moment, is something of a special case. Zesty Meyers, owner of R 20th Century in New York City, says the style is finally old enough to be taken seriously.Mid-century furniture is in demand for the first time since it was made. EBay design director Shawn Henderson says within the “very hot” mid-century furniture category. Clean lines are outselling more elaborate pieces across all periods and styles. Mid-century modern furniture from the ‘50s and ‘60s is finally old enough to be taken seriously by mainstream antique dealers. -
Vestibule - bourgeois & art furniture:
In the late 19th- and early 20th centuries,
long before modern technologies for furniture manufacture were developed,
dressers, sideboards and chest boxes were made by the hand
of skilled craftsmen.
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Vestibule - bourgeois & art furniture:
"The aim of art is not to represent the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance".
---------Aristotle
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