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Art meets practicality, form and function - Stick & Umbrella Stand
Art meets practicality, form and function - Stick & Umbrella Stand

By Mark Johnson on Mar 18, 2024

Art meets practicality, form and function - Stick & Umbrella Stand

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Folk Art - Painted Four Door Dresser
Folk Art - Painted Four Door Dresser

By Mark Johnson on Mar 14, 2024

19th Century Folk Art Painted Four Door Dresser Rare to find such a nice original folk art painted dresser cupboard of this quality. I think what makes this piece so charming, is the perfect size, quality, p...

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A touch of Spring life captured on canvas - Dated 1864
A touch of Spring life captured on canvas - Dated 1864

By Mark Johnson on Sep 23, 2023

Sometimes you come across a beautiful painting of nature at is best and very realistically captured. It is even more special when you when you find two identical size oil on canvas's, with a theme, painted b...

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Affordable Impressionist Art
Affordable Impressionist Art

By Mark Johnson on Mar 28, 2023

Impressionism is an art movement that originated in France in the late 19th century. Impressionist painting is characterized by the use of loose brushwork, emphasis on the effects of light and color, and an ...

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Antique Country House Storage Cupboards
Antique Country House Storage Cupboards

By Mark Johnson on Mar 24, 2023

Embrace the beauty of a bygone era with our antique finds... A country house store cupboard typically contains a variety of dry goods, preserves, and canned foods to provide a stockpile of ingredients that can be used to prepare meals.

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Marriage, Love & Storage Chests...
Marriage, Love & Storage Chests...

By Mark Johnson on Mar 21, 2023

Marriage chests, also known as wedding chests or hope chests, are traditional storage chests used in many cultures to store items that a young woman would accumulate in preparation for her marriage. The ches...

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Sculpture imagined by the artists mind and created by their hand.
Sculpture imagined by the artists mind and created by their hand.

By Mark Johnson on Mar 18, 2023

Through the eye of an artist you capture a unique piece in time. Never repeated, always different and always different and full of emotion.

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Antique coffers & Storage Chests. Store, Admire, Cherish. Totally Practical For Every Day Use
Antique coffers & Storage Chests. Store, Admire, Cherish. Totally Practical For Every Day Use

By Mark Johnson on Mar 14, 2023

Antique coffers are storage box chests, they were typically used during the medieval, Renaissance, and colonial eras. Primarily used to store various items such as clothing, linens, documents, and valuables such as money and jewelry.

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Decorative Vintage Japanese Kokeshi Dolls With A Story
Decorative Vintage Japanese Kokeshi Dolls With A Story

By Mark Johnson on Dec 29, 2022

The level of detail given to each Vintage Japanese painted Kokeshi doll is very adorable. Never identical, always have a cheeky facial expression and often tell a story. 

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Art for lovers - Hold me close, hold me dear.
Art for lovers - Hold me close, hold me dear.

By Clare ... on Dec 28, 2022

Art and sculptures are forms of visual expression that have been created by human beings for thousands of years. See our latest art & sculpture collection here.

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Where practicality meets comfort. Meet the Glenister draftsman's chair
Where practicality meets comfort. Meet the Glenister draftsman's chair

By Clare ... on Dec 21, 2022

Our example of a 1900's Glenister draftsman's chair was designed with the intention of the user being seated for many hours.

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Where would we be without a table?
Where would we be without a table?

By Clare ... on Dec 14, 2022

Early tables were made by Ancient Egyptians believed to be 2500BC of wood and stone, used not for dining at the time but to keep things above floor level.

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