Human kind has been seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloguing, displaying, storing and maintaining items and collections for millennia. Its an in-built human condition. Some are aware of it and conscientiously collect things, seek them out and may even pay a lot of money for them and some are not so and to the outsider appear Continue Reading
I know that most of my friends collect something or another. One friend has a trainer (sneaker for our North American friends out there) collection so large I wonder what he would do with them when he decided he didn’t want them any more. They are all mint in their boxes, neatly stacked in the Continue Reading
If you didn’t know or had noticed yet, from the day you were born, you were a collector. Whether it is by self or by proxy, the world around you, including the consumer world is geared towards collecting and “collections”. You cannot escape it. Whether your innocently drinking your calming cup of Tetley Tea and Continue Reading
You know you got it bad when you can not hold yourself back from going every brick-a-brac store and charity shop whether on foot, in a car or on holiday. The lure of possibly finding that missing piece of a collection or an under-priced piece of art deco pottery or silverware is just too great Continue Reading
If you have ever thought about all the subject matters that you could start a collection on, or had a look at the still incomplete A to Z list of collectors on my site (or others), you will quickly conclude that the list is extensive if not endless. Humanity at every level collects and accumulates Continue Reading
The echo of Deco is in the air! Art Deco is an eclectic art and design style which had its origins in Paris in the first decades of the 20th century. This was a fascinating period of design with global influences from African arts, as well as historical styles from Greco-Roman Classicism, Babylon, Assyria, Ancient Continue Reading
