Recently, while watching Sam, an expert in the antiques business for many years, rearrange his large space, I was privy to a great lesson in design. Armed with a drill, hammer and nails, who would have thought to first hang a rug on the wall, layer an ornate mirror...............
.................and frame with several graceful yards of soft, expensive, pure wool fabric. This sideboard is beautiful - the curved doors and drawers at each end really unusual.
Sam's accessories are stunning international treasures, and he shares exotic stories about their former lives around the world!
I love the silver and crystal cruet, the huge painted tray inlaid with mother-of-pearl flowers, and the metal rams head decorative pieces from an antique chair.
Sam has taught me a lot about the origins of many beautiful antiques..........and I have purchased some lovely things from him over the past few years. Now if only I had space for a piece of his gorgeous black furniture.....on which, of course, I would display lots of white and cream china, and old unpolished silver!
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