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In my Lake Arrowhead shed lurks a beast, a four-hundred-pound vintage butcher block table. During one of its many laborious moves, it lost four legs and now only the massive …

A reader found inspiration in my article about a successful donation of a hammer to the Zagreb Museum of Broken Relationships. GG wants to donate a miniature haunted spirit house. …

Let me tell you the story of Mom’s Doree hatbox. In 1973 my father’s bad taste led him to buy my mother a makeover session at Elizabeth Arden’s Red Door …

RM owns a six-hundred piece, fifty-years-in-the-making cowboy clothing collection with vintage leather jackets and tooled western belts. She’s seventy now, so it’s time to sell these objects. She’s in luck! …

JE owns a vintage Vaughn Claw hammer, a “California Framer,” circa 1940. She used it this January for a very specific reason. This Christmas she received a handmade wooden birdhouse …

A collector of authentic Hermes Carre Foulard silk twill hand-colored scarves frames them for her wall. Others she keeps in their distinctive slim orange boxes. By 1937 Hermes designed for …

Artnet tempted me with a list of the Art World’s most compelling movies about art of 2025. I found them all so good I wanted to share. These films deal …

Where is the art and decorative art market heading in 2026? Straight to the 1970s. High profile sales this past weeks show collectors aggressively returning to sexy trophy objects. The …

TT sent me a piece of 1980s-1990s swag, a Joe Camel Pup Tent. She wonders how a tent became associated with Camel cigarettes. As an advertising campaign, RJ Reynolds, in …

JP sent me a fabulous Art Nouveau style figural table lamp, a nude woman supported by a peacock. The woman’s outstretched arm holds the light fixture, a globe shape, encrusted …