What is a sideboard/dresser? These are sideboards or cupboards with drawers that are augmented by decorative features to the top, such as mirrors and decorative backings with shelves. Nobody makes them anymore. No, they have been replaced over the last century with dressers or simple sideboard or cupboards with no tops. Why? Sideboards were prevalent … Continue reading The Rise The Fall and The Comeback of the Victorian Sideboard Dresser
Category: Vintage Matters
Vintage and Retro Classics. Globe and World Map Campaign Style Nest of Coffee Tables.
For my new eclectic blog, one of the new categories as we put the blog together, will be a section where I wax lyrical about classic vintage pieces we all either grew up with or recognise. First up, the 80s middle-class classic the antique old world map coffee table. They were made in the 1980s. … Continue reading Vintage and Retro Classics. Globe and World Map Campaign Style Nest of Coffee Tables.
The Delights of Vintage Photographs. Tommy Cooper and Mount Radford School Exeter.
It is probably because I have been a vintage dealer since I was 18 that when Shooting the Past, the brilliant Stephen Poliakoff drama about photographic archives, with Timothy Spall and Lindsay Duncan, came out in 1999 that I was so enraptured by it. KA Perratt. Weekly we see the past recreated to varying degrees … Continue reading The Delights of Vintage Photographs. Tommy Cooper and Mount Radford School Exeter.
The Rights of Fans. 