Antiques to Vintage & Everything In Between

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Antiques to Vintage & Everything In Between

from the editor

Curios • a name in antiques… katsushika hokusai

Fabergé and his Magnificent Menagerie • IT'S NOT OFTEN THAT WE CAN CREDIT A DOG WITH INSPIRING SOMETHING THAT BECAME AN ULTIMATE STATUS SYMBOL, BUT THAT'S (SORT OF) WHAT HAPPENED WHEN FABERGÉ MADE A MODEL OF EDWARD VII's FAVOURITE NORFOLK TERRIER. JULIE CARTER EXPLAINS.

By the Window • ADELAIDE PERRY WAS AN INFLUENTIAL AUSTRALIAN ARTIST, PRINTMAKER AND RESPECTED ART TEACHER. LAURAINE DIGGINS FINE ART PRESENTS ONE OF HER ICONIC PORTRAITS.

Alfons Walde: Titan of Tyrol • SINCE THE 1930S, THE PAINTINGS OF AUSTRIAN ARTIST ALFONS WALDE HAVE BEEN REPRESENTATIVE OF AND NEARLY SYNONYMOUS WITH THE SNOWY ALPINE LANDSCAPES, SKIING AND OTHER WINTER SPORTS OF TYROL. INDEED, AS ERIC BRYAN WRITES, WALDE WAS THE FIRST ARTIST TO SUCCESSFULLY USE SKIING AS A SUBJECT IN PAINTING.

it's a snippet • Snatches of information too small for a feature and too interesting to ignore…

movers and shakers • Barry Thomas reports on significant news in the UK trade…

A Return to Radiance: Reviving Icons of the Romanov Era • W.J. SANDERS’ LATEST RESTORATION HONOURS BOTH SACRED TRADITION AND SILVER SMITHING EXCELLENCE, REVIVING TWO RELIGIOUS RUSSIAN ICONS IN STUNNING DETAIL.

The Chic Modernism of Eileen Gray • A DESIGNER, ARCHITECT, PAINTER AND PHOTOGRAPHER, EILEEN GRAY WAS 94 BEFORE HER PIONEERING WORK WAS FORMALLY RECOGNISED. TODAY, WRITES CHARLOTTE FOSTER, ONE OF HER CHAIRS COULD COST YOU MILLIONS. MAKE THAT MANY MILLIONS…

Victorian Glass Novelties and Oddities: Part Three • FINE DINING AT A TABLE SET WITH LUXURIOUS DÉCOR WAS AN IMPORTANT PART OF VICTORIAN LIFE, WRITES SPECIALIST COLLECTOR JOHN FRITH, ESPECIALLY FOR THE NEW WEALTHY MIDDLE CLASS.

The Painter of Speed • AN AMATEUR RACE CAR DRIVER AND MECHANIC, GEORGES HAMEL WAS INSPIRED TO TAKE UP PAINTING AUTOMOTIVES AFTER WATCHING A MOTOR RACE IN HIS HOMETOWN. IT’S LUCKY HE DID, SAYS RICHARD LAST: THE DRAMATIC ILLUSTRATION OF A BLUE BUGATTI WITH ITS SCARFED DRIVER SURGING INTO THE MEDITERRANEAN SUNSHINE FROM THE TUNNEL DURING THE MONACO GRAND PRIX MUST BE ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS POSTER IMAGES OF ALL TIME.

The Misses Creeth • ‘VIOLETS BY MISS M.E. CREETH WAS A MOST NATURAL LOOKING GROUP OF VIOLETS, JUST PLUCKED, SEEMINGLY, AND THROWN CARELESSLY ON TO THE PANEL THEY ADORNED.’ JULIE CARTER TURNS THE SPOTLIGHT ON TWO SISTERS WHOSE DELICATE WILDFLOWER PAINTING HAS BEEN LARGELY FORGOTTEN.

'Cascades of Rainbows' • SINCE 1947, PIECES OF STEUBEN HAVE BEEN PRESENTED AS GIFTS OF STATE BY EVERY UNITED STATES PRESIDENT. BUT AS MARGARET SOUTH WRITES, IT WAS AN ENGLISHMAN WHO REVOLUTIONISED THE CORNING GLASS WORKS.

The Allure of the Serpent • ACROSS MILLENNIA AND CONTINENTS, THE SNAKE HAS SLITHERED ITS WAY INTO HUMANITY’S HEARTS, MINDS AND SACRED TEXTS, ITS LEGENDS CONSISTENTLY REVEALING A PARADOX OF BEAUTY AND DANGER, CREATION AND DESTRUCTION, HEALING AND HARM, WRITES DEBRA PALMEN.

Hale and Oakes: Masters of Their Craft • IN DECEMBER LAST YEAR, NEW WORLD AUCTION RECORDS WERE SET FOR FRANK HALE AND EDWARD OAKES. APART FROM SOUNDING LIKE A 1980s MUSIC DUO, WHO IN FACT WERE HALE AND OAKES? SANDRA D'ANGELO FINDS OUT.

The Bush Man and his Gumleaf Miniatures • WHAT DOES A PAINTER DO WHEN HE’S CAMPING OUT IN THE BUSH AND THERE’S NO CANVAS OR BOARD FOR HIM TO WORK ON? WELL IF...