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Off the Shoulder and In the Shop

Posted: June 11, 2012 15:33 Last Updated: | Heather Karlie Vieira

It's official, 20th Century by HKFA is open.  There is something quite fulfilling about having the key to your own shop.  Opening the door each day and enjoying what it means to be 'open'.  Open to new customers, open to new possibilities, open to new ideas.     The Grand Opening was a wonderful event, old friends stopped by, new clients came in and the folks in the neighborhood welcomed us with open arms.  Fishtown is becoming an arts destination.  It's the rebirth of a neighborhood.  A neighborhood that was open to it.  In these old buil...

A great pair of vintage oversized copper lamps

Are You Single?

Posted: September 13, 2011 22:25 Last Updated: | Heather Karlie Vieira

Have you heard that? Have you said that? I'm not speaking about dating, but rather singles and pairs in the antiques and design business. Lamps, chairs, vases, chandeliers, mirrors, sconces - just about anything. For those of us in the antiques and design business we seem to be all too preoccupied by pairs. The desire to have a mirror copy of a room, to have even numbers throughout, to have a numerical balance - it just doesn't add up. Let's examine your living room. A sofa with a matched pair of end tables on either side with a matched pair of lamps or vases sitting on top. Ther...