Showing posts with label antiques. Show all posts
Showing posts with label antiques. Show all posts

Saturday, August 20, 2011

Gimme Some Sugar

One of my favorite South Florida antique malls is The Sugar Chest Antique Mall in Pompano Beach. It opened about 2 years ago, just about the same time that a nearby antique mall was going through a major shake up. Some of the displeased dealers defected to Sugar Chest and helped fill the 30,000 sf space.  From the 200+ dealers, here are 10 pieces that because of design merit, value, oddity, or nostalgia that I found to love on a Saturday afternoon.
i'll fall for just about anything plexi (about $50)

vintage velvet trimmed lampshades (the pair approx $175)
mock-croc console and stools (amazing @ $180)
two side tables approx. $700/coffee table approx $400
the most ambitious bean art I have ever seen
murano glass lamps approx $400 pr
wild west meets marrakesh @ $30
fab oil with furry/fuzzy matte
part of a dining room table and chairs set
can't beat the patina on old wood toys
What did I buy, you ask? A $4.00 1962 Password game. Who remembers Password???

Saturday, May 14, 2011

LIGHT READING

On a recent trip to Waynesville, NC, I spent an hour catching up with shop owner, Etsy seller, and antique collector Kristi Siplon. She treated me to delicious coffee at her little cottage and then we drove over to The Laughing Lamb, her mostly antique shop located in the historic Frog Level section of Waynesville. No sooner had I walked through the door, she showed me the Invisible Bookshelf.

This is way cool! So cool, in fact, that during last week's big spring garden festival, shoppers who came to the festival to enjoy plants and flowers, walked past Kristi's beautiful array of garden-themed antiques and pretty floral china, and went straight for the Invisible Bookshelf.

Each $22 shelf can hold up to 20 pounds of books. The bottom slides into a book and holds it horizontal, and then the back is mounted to the wall. Kristi wants to hang this beside her bed, and stack it with current reads.

A few more shots from the Laughing Lamb........
          

 The Laughing Lamb, 24 Commerce St, Waynesville, NC, 28786 828-550-3136