This Old Tenement: Introductions
Hello World!!! My Husband and I are starting this new blog to document the not-so-glamorous process of decorating and revamping our less than 700 square foot railroad apartment in a classic turn-of-the-century Brooklyn tenement in Bed-Stuy … think of “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” with modern Brooklyn newlyweds. My name is Nicole, originally from Chicago, I have lived here in New York City for four years with my Husband, David. David is a Rochester Institute of Technology alumnus, Director of Information Technology and Freelance Web Developer. I am a happy Housewife … and no, that is not the marital lobotomy talking!!! I have an amazing, wonderful and totally clone worthy Husband who encourages me to follow my bliss!!! I am a Photographer, I studied at Pratt Institute and when I am not working on fine art projects I photograph primarily destination weddings and children. My professional websites are currently in the process of a complete, massive redesign and development … in the next coming months www.nicoledufourdurocher.com and www.rubberduckyphotography.com will launch. I am also fantastic in the kitchen and am busy developing, researching, testing recipes for my cookbook titled The Brooklyn Contessa Simply Delicious Quiches which, if all goes well, will be photographed, edited and ready for publication in Spring 2010. Ideally, every day includes time spent twittering, blogging, reading and researching. I have a borderline unhealthy obsession with my Blackberry … I honestly cannot understand how I ever lived without one. I am definitely a New Yorker at heart … I want everything and I want it NOW!!! The process of decorating our apartment has been a constant test of my patience, as I have found nothing in the design world is immediate. When David and I first moved to Brooklyn in 2005 to say we were on a budget would imply that we had extra money to spend
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This Old Tenement: Introductions
Mr. Apron and I like to watch Antiques Roadshow. We can catch it twice a week if we’re lucky, on Mondays on WHYY, the Philadelphia PBS station, and on Tuesdays on NJN, the New Jersey PBS station. Unfortunately, we’re starting to see reruns, which takes the element of surprise out of the trash and treasure. Our faces aren’t as surprised as those of the folks on camera when the fake Weller vase from the 1940s turns out to be worth only $100, because we’ve seen this episode twice already. It’s no fun predicting the garage sale finds and the paste. In addition to making guesses about the appraisal value, Mr. Apron and I, like all of Roadshow-watching America, try to think about our own trash, and decide which of our own belongings would be worthy of taking to Roadshow if it ever comes back to Philly.
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Antiques Roadshow
“Hey Dad, do you still have that old mower in the garage?” The slightly guarded reply over the phone that followed was looking for more information. “Which mower do you mean?” Action Girl and I had recently moved into our first house together after several years of apartment dwelling and suddenly I was confronted with the need to own things that I had not considered before. It was a simple and elderly house in an old neighborhood and came with its own foolishly small bit of grassy lawn.
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Slow and Steady Mows the Lawn
Call me weird but i love the Antiques Roadshow.. both the British and US versions.For those of you who dont know its a tv show where “members of the public bring in items to be appraised by professionals in the hope of discovering that junk from the attic is actually a valuable treasure”.Most of the stuff is junk but every now and then people bring in something thats worth a fortune and on Saturday in Raleigh, North Carolina a woman brought in four Chinese carved pieces of jade she inherited from her father.Turns out they are from the Chien Lung Dynasty (1736-1795) and were made by imperial order for the Emperor and were given a ”conservative auction estimate of up to $1.07 million”.The show has never cracked the million dollar mark..old timers rejoice Forget the million dollar jade, check out that creepy chick from the Ring..damn!!
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Million dollar appraisal at Antiques Roadshow..
These two are “keepers” – a functional swinging gateleg table – fo r dining or a fabulous option for sofa table/entry table – the penny rug isn’t “perfect” but it’s perfectly fabulous- handmade – great colors -Nice example of Americana! Table – $68 – Rug $62 – at my house – Tina – 728-6218 – tarend3@sio.midco.net
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Red Painted – Swinging Gateleg table and Antique Penny Rug
My love affair with Red Hook began the year I was born. It was where my family had a summer home and where I always go to clear my head. Red Hook is located in upstate New York, Dutchess County, about 100 miles from Manhattan and about 70 from Lenox, Massachusetts. It offers the quaint charm of a day in the country with the easy escape of one tank of gas.
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Frugal Friday – Wanderlust women solo travel for antiquing in Red Hook, NY
Presumably I got the grammar wrong on that title, it looks wrong either way I type it (an? a?), but that’s not the point of this post, so let’s look beyond my English frailties and move onto more exciting thoughts… The other day we went out to some antique stores/ flea market type places in our town to look for kitchen chairs. We’ve got loads of these places in our town, but my current favorite is Oddfellows, because the owners are so nice (and they have hired me in the past to recover old couch cushions – a pretty fun gig!). (Ok, here is where I was going to give you a link to them, but I can’t find a website URL so I’ll just tell you that they are on 124 Swannanoa River Rd in Asheville
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An (new) Old Washboard
Original Signed Peter Hurd Watercolor Originally uploaded by Vjhoneycut Original Signed “Peter Hurd” Watercolor Art-Very Rare 1904-1984 – Artist Peter Hurd was born and raised in Roswell, New Mexico, and was educated at the New Mexico Military Institute, which he attended from 1917 to 1920. From there, he attended West Point Military Academy, and was appointed to the U.S
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Original Signed Peter Hurd Watercolor Art
Greg and I visited around eight yard sales on Saturday. It was such a sun-shiney day that there were plenty of them to choose from on almost every other corner. We were on the hunt for a lawnmower. We didn’t find a mower, but I did find these fantastic pottery mugs. They were priced at $1/piece, but we only had a total of $2 on us. I was going to just purchase 2 mugs, but Greg said I should ask the elderly man for all 6. So I asked the man if he would do 6 mugs for $2 — he said, “yeah, why not?” These pretty little mugs remind me of Holland for some reason. They remind me of the time Ohio Becky went to Holland when I was a kid, and she brought me back a little porcelain clog with blue design work. The beautiful blue design work is so typical of Hollish designs on dinnerware, jewelery, and artwork. Love them.
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example work of Chien Lung “Antiques Roadshow” appraisers valued a jade set as high as $1.07 million, the highest appraisal since the show started traversing the United States. The collection — jade pieces from China’s Chien Lung reign from 1736-1795 — belong to an unidentified woman who arrived early at the Saturday taping in Raleigh, N.C., of the popular PBS show, The News & Observer in Raleigh reported Sunday. The woman told the appraiser the pieces belonged to her father, a military liaison to China in the 1930s and ’40s, show officials said.
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$1.07M ‘Roadshow’ antique appraisal
Almost 25 years ago when I was in Portobello Road in London one Saturday morning I noticed an amazing child’s cup in the most amazing condition and in the original box. The combination of the satin finished silver areas combined with the green gold parcel gilt and engraving was a lesson in the finest engraving and the finest example of the Aesthetic Movement. I purchased the mug and went off on my way.
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A surprise in a box
Schultz and Fischer leaf form bowl with handle and bug I had no idea that Californian silversmiths were making silver in 1880 that looked exactly like the work of George Shiebler in New York. Shiebler used leaves and bugs held together with silver pins and usually lightly gold washed the pieces. We recently found a most unusual version of this type of work by Schultz and Fischer
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Tiffany Columbian Expo Mark Tiffany Vine Forks Displayed at the Columbian Expo 1983 A bout 20 years ago I acquired a lightly gold washed dessert set in the Tiffany Vine pattern. After I got it home I examined it closely and noticed that five of the individual place pieces had a strange mark added to the reverse of the bowls.
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Tiffany Vine Shown at the Columbian Expo
Image from Mohr & McPherson I have already written a post including info about this antiques store, however now I have more info to share. First of all, there are now two outlets of Pinky’s, one in Sharjah, and the other in Dubai. I’ll tackle them one by one. Sharjah Location Store Name: Pinky Furniture & Novelties LLC Contact Names: Imtiaz Mukri (Immy) & Parveen Mukri (Penny) Cell: 050-628-2759; 050-632-6193 Landline: 06-534-1714 Email: pinkyfurniture@yahoo.com Here are some good directions from another blog The Grumpy Goat : The warehouse is probably best approached either from Dubai or from the E311 Emirates Road. From the Emirates Road , turn off at the Sharjah-Dubai border and follow Sharjah Ring Road.
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Pinky’s Furniture
Shiebler letter opener with “shalom” engraved in Hebrew Shiebler Pin with the word “Roma” Engraved George Shiebler’s engravers used Roman and Greek related words on their Etruscan pattern flatware, hollowware and jewelry and many people are curious as to the purpose and meaning of the words. After acquiring quite a few pieces and checking around I think I can safely say that the words are meant to look as if they were dug up with the old Roman and Greek pots and pans in an excavation
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What the words inscribed on Shiebler pieces mean…….
Christopher Dresser had a huge influence on design in Britain and America and until recently I was not aware of his collaboration with Edward Moore of Tiffany. This rare and important Tiffany tea caddy has Japanese influenced applications including the decorated ivory plaque on the front with two copper jesters. The ivory plaques are rumored to be part of a large purchase made in Japan by Christopher Dresser on behalf of Edward Moore for Tiffany
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Christopher Dresser and Tiffany
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