Summer Tea
A colorful tea set with a backdrop of colored glass lit by they sun on a bright afternoon. Seen in Carnegie Antiques, it was all just so colorful and gleaming it was hard to resist.
It’s always interesting to see what is collected, what is saved, and what survives to be shared again, sometimes the most unlikely things! If you’re local to Carnegie or the Pittsburgh area, don’t forget to stop in at Carnegie Antiques, and the shop’s owner is also hosting an estate sale this Saturday, July 21 that looks like a collector’s dream.
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July 16, 2012 | Categories: antique, carnegie pa, interior, vintage | Tags: carnegie antiques, colored glass, estate sale, interior photography, photography, pittsburgh area, tea set, vintage glassware, vintage tea set | Leave a comment
It was well after dark as I went to check the front door, and the front room looked magical in the reddish light of the neon sign in the upper windows. Lots of glass in the room, and crystals on the chandelier, all catching the deep glow against the saturated darkness made things look as if they were floating.
The shop is really not antiques but neat old stuff, more vintage in nature, excellent craftsmanship, interesting design, a lot of tacky but all of it illustrating its era of origin. This move is something we’ve talked about for years as we’ve built her website and promoted her shop along with her growing estate sale and appraisal business. I’m thrilled to have a little space there because I don’t have to be there all the time, I can share the time with others, and people will still get to see my things even when I’m not there.
I’ve written about and featured Carnegie Antiques in paintings, photos and stories here on Today, see more.
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March 7, 2012 | Categories: carnegie pa, interesting, night photography, places, urban | Tags: antique and vintage, carnegie antiques, gift shop, photography | 2 Comments
Time
A collection of old watches, none working, some pretty bent up, but still holding that reverent mystery of time, and our keeping of it. I just wonder who Grace Jarret was, and why she received an engraved watch. It was all in the jewelry counter at Carnegie Antiques.
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December 7, 2011 | Categories: antique, carnegie pa, object | Tags: antiques, carnegie antiques, grace jarrett, old watches, pendant watch, photography, pocket watch | Leave a comment
Antiques at Night
I am installing some of my merchandise in one of the back rooms at Carnegie Antiques, one of my customers for design and also a friend. It was well after dark as I went to check the front door, and the front room looked magical in the reddish light of the neon sign in the upper windows. Lots of glass in the room, and crystals on the chandelier, all catching the deep glow against the saturated darkness made things look as if they were floating.
The shop is really not antiques but neat old stuff, more vintage in nature, excellent craftsmanship, interesting design, a lot of tacky but all of it illustrating its era of origin. This move is something we’ve talked about for years as we’ve built her website and promoted her shop along with her growing estate sale and appraisal business. I’m thrilled to have a little space there because I don’t have to be there all the time, I can share the time with others, and people will still get to see my things even when I’m not there.
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March 6, 2010 | Categories: interesting, places, urban | Tags: antique and vintage, carnegie antiques, gift shop, photography | Leave a comment
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