An antique dealer journey: 2012

Sunday, December 30, 2012

Happy new year!!

Chears to all of you out in the world, i wish everybody an amazing and great new year!!

Luca

Thursday, December 20, 2012

Thursday, December 13, 2012

Monday, December 10, 2012

Untouched

For about 250 years, nobody us opened, changed, violated this enchanting little mirror.
It happens so seldom unfortunately!

Dont mind the photograf!

Friday, November 9, 2012

See you at Bella!

This week-end from friday 14.00 until sunday afternoon in Copenhagen, Scandinavia biggest flee-market.
I hope i ll see you there!!

Monday, October 29, 2012

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Gone totaly Tolix

I ve been " Tolixing" France around, lovely hobby, i love those metal pieces, they "galvanize" me!

Monday, September 17, 2012

Sunday, September 2, 2012

I didn´t need any kind of photos filters, histogram or any other kind of magic..
This fantastic sunset didn´t need anything more to be add or changed, it was astonishing just like it was.
Fabulous drive trough the untouched woods i didn´t new could be so wild so close to the bigger cities, to meet such nice people i met there. Småland.
Pure wilderness is probably always closer than we think here in Sweden.

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Legs & Carving

Sunday, August 12, 2012

Like an artistic bread...

...but it is an Italian cupboard, looks so good that it make you feel for biting in it.

Piero della Francesca and my girls

It´s like they have been projected in a painting of the master of prospective Piero della Francesca.
I can also feel the smell of that heat on the square of miracles.

That is why i ve been totally quite on my blog, sorry about that.

6 photos to explain my silence, a long period of wonderful time with my family.

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

It´s soooo Gustavian!

Beautiful chest of drawers.
All details, handles, carving nicely done in the end of the 18th century.

Monday, June 4, 2012

Drawers or windows?

Both actually, 2 drawers in original painting representing 2 windows, 2 walls and 2 pillars.
Amazing fantasy work from the early 19th. century.

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Doors

A 1754 dated cabinet, original painted, nice piece.

Pastoral landscape in Skåne

It´s over now but that day, almost 2 weeks ago, it was like unreal beautiful.

Friday, May 18, 2012

Jämtland beauty

Difficult to see in this pic, i agree, but a like this photo and i m the one in charge:)!
It s a nice tall secreter from Jämtland with amazing colors.
Anyone wants more pics?

Sunday, May 13, 2012

The city of Edinburgh

View towards the Firth of Forth.

Amazing views all over around us.

Edinburgh, a pearl among the Lowlands

Actually displaced in the Lothian, Scotland, a marvelous town that left us astonished by its beauty.
Fantastic people, food, history, not one single bad looking buiding in old the town.
Not to mention the single malts!

Go there,

Just do it!

Monday, April 23, 2012

The Rust & the Beauty

Fantastic nice french soupe bowl, Empire joyfull colored. It match the orange 20th century industrial table from Tolix.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Worn Armchair

Beautiful worn and original painted gustavian armchair from the country.

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Spring inside

Spring inside me, inside our home, inside our hope.

Monday, March 26, 2012

Contrast of lights and time

Sunday, March 11, 2012

Grey like an early spring sky

Gustavians details in grey

Thursday, March 8, 2012

I m in love with interiors

Interior

Monday, March 5, 2012

Smiling Queens

Of the United Kingdom of Codrinoland!

Friday, February 24, 2012

Quite stillife from the past

Not many word to add, just items in harmony

Monday, January 30, 2012

Childhood memories

This Italian bergère has been around me since my first infancy, i ve got it from my beloved little aunt Alda. It is on his way to the upholsterer for new refreshing (old off course) cotton tissue.
I really long to have it home.

What a haircut!

Fantastic cool haircut has this captain of the Swedish army, i loved this painting it looks so alive.

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Green and glass

Colors to long to springtime or reminding this very green winter we are having.

New, old year and a Martian

Well while the new one is approaching eager to show himself, the old one is packing his stuff getting ready to leave.

How will the new one be?
I don t know, i hope healthy, generous, funny and peaceful all at the same time. And i hope that and much more to every soul on the earth.

So let s hope the starting of a new era in those funny hat priest calendar is the beginning of a new great intelligent era.
An age where we don t have to be ashamed (like we should be now) if an extraterrestrial little green man would open the door of his new cool space vehicle and ask us:
" What the hell are you doing to yourself, the hole world and all the humane races??"
he would also add "Assholes", and would leave disapointed this magnificent planet.

So let s all do something at least a little bit better this 2013

Happy new year world
Happy new year citizens of it

Luca

Yes it s a new camera!

The result is very very good, and i bought the promise camera, so i guess the camera-omen was a positive one.
Only thing is the fact that i sold about 90% to other dealers.
Is that scary at an antique show open to public?

Yes.

I´m use to sell to dealers, that is what i want to do.
But with right weather, pieces that should also go to private, public flowing in, a not terrible economical situation in Sweden, it s a strange thing seeing people roaming around like hypnotized by some obscure force.
I m happy i m not one that pointed all my efforts and my pieces to the private visitors, i would cry right now.
I m happy at least I am happy!

Stockholm Antique show "Älvsjö 2011"

Good show.

Thought we need wool underwear to go to the restaurant (-19 at 20.00) and the fact that they do not take away the ice from the street of the very centrum of the capital of Sweden.
I actually saw middle aged women literally fly on a slippery surface of ice that i can only remember when i was kid and mountain- climbing on the Alpes, at 3500 m over the sea.
Big minus for the Stockholm county, it looked like North Pole.
Anyway beside that, Zeus and Tor gave us a very good "fair weather" and that made possible to have more visitors than the last years.
Than the God of currency killed all the chance of getting a lot of big foreign dealers, few courageous came anyway, putting the Swedish crown on an altar that makes the other currencies go on their knees.
But, but, but regular Swedish people enjoyed the show in hordes and i think i can say speaking for the most of the sellers there, that they were very much in buying mood.

So thank God the magic combination weather/currency worked out anyway.

So what´s happening?

Some dealers complain.
Some sell great and are extremely happy.
Some says it´s only very high quality that sells.
Some says it´s only new white painted stuff who sells.
Some says it´s only new faked gustavian look a like stuff that sells.
Some says it´s original painted charming stuff that sells best.
Some sells all of what they have in stock for they are cheap and all the cheap things sell well (according to them).

So where are we? What is the reality?
Or do we have different realities in different countries and continents or maybe we have them even between the same small villages?

I don´t know, but i don´t complaine too much either

Helsingborgs Show

It has certainly been the best antique show ever i have participated in.
A lot of visitors, a lot of dealers (my kind of visitors), very good companions around me.
I have actually changed place to a much better spot and me and my colleagues around me build a sort of "Street of good charming furniture´s and collectables". That in contrast to the sea of white painted/new rebuilt antiques the has invaded the shows the last years. Things that should not be able to be represented in a serious antique show if there were only big balls enough to say " no thank you, your are not welcome with new/old remake here".
But who cares, those pieces make serious people, especially (this is sad) foreigner clients, run to our little "genuine street" at the show and choose between good stuff. Not expensive, but original, charming, antique for real and good.
That´s all folk´s

Luca

Help, somebody!

I became in posses of a nice, early 19th. century oil painting on canvas. It´s very nice painted and on the wooden frame backside there is an old Irish frame workshop label in paper. That means possibly that it is an Irish painting like it looks to be. Most exciting is the red wax imprint in the meddle part of the wooden frame backside. It represent a kind of "Noble mark" with a bird similar animal and the initial(I N i guess). Can somebody help me with the mark?
I would love to know who the noble owner has been.
Thanks´
Luca