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From Logs to Luxe!Photo credit: St. Petersburg, Gatchina Photo credit: St. Petersburg, Gatchina If you remember our blog on June 10, 2008, we wrote about our German Secretaire à Abattant, whose…
June 23 2009, 12:02pm | Comments »
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Girl Power!, 18th century-styleFigure 1 Our recent acquisition of a set of chairs after a model by an Italian female carver, has piqued our interest in the activity of 18th century…
June 19 2009, 11:51am | Comments »
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Vestal Virgin Condemned to DeathPainting of Vestal by Pietro Saja, now in the Palazzo Reale, Caserta. Pictured in "Civiltà dell'Ottocento: Le Arti Figurative." We have just discovered a painting very similar…
June 18 2009, 10:22am | Comments »
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Neoclassicismo Italiano and the Klismos ChairThis chair, one of a set of four neoclassical chairs in our collection, is derived from the klismos chair, a Greek invention that evolved from a simple throne.…
June 11 2009, 1:08pm | Comments »
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Carlton Hobbs receives Fair Patron’s Award at Olympia!We would like to share the news that Carlton Hobbs LLC has been awarded the 2009 Olympia International Art & Antiques Fair Patron’s Award for the Finest Work…
June 10 2009, 10:47am | Comments »
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Regency RevisitedIn Regency Redux by Emily Evans Eerdmans (New York, 2008) various 20th century interpretations of the Regency style, from “the Napoleonic to the Classical Moderne to the present,…
June 9 2009, 3:02pm | Comments »
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East Meets WestAn Extraordinary Matched Pair of Center tables Almost Certainly Commissioned for Schloss Charlottenburg. Carlton Hobbs LLC. These center tables, with their Chinese and Japanese porcelain and European lacquer…
June 4 2009, 1:19pm | Comments »
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“On Tops” Photo AlbumYou can now visit our Flickr Album for images of the tabletops to be included in our exhibition.
May 5 2009, 3:11pm | Comments »
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‘Supporting’ IllustrationsWe’ve just had an interesting new find! A pair of 17th century painted plaster pedestals in our collection are nearly identical to stucco versions formerly in the Villa…
May 5 2009, 10:21am | Comments »
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Like the Getty, we’re “Finding Sculpture in the Decorative Arts”While reading the catalogue for the Getty Museum’s current exhibition, “Taking Shape, Finding Sculpture in the Decorative Arts,” we came across a drawing by Franz Xaver Habermann for…
April 29 2009, 1:26pm | Comments »
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Just horsing around!Have we got something for the world of wonders and the cabinets of curiosities! Standing at approximately six feet tall, this life-sized anatomical model of a horse by…
April 24 2009, 6:09pm | Comments »
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From the magnificent Villa Borghese in RomeTerm in the Carlton Hobbs collection. Term in the Borghese Collection. (Photo: Palacios, Arredi e Ornamenti, 2004.341.) Borghese term, in situ. The term, anornament of classical architecture made…
April 23 2009, 1:16pm | Comments »
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