Adornment. If you haven't already noticed, that's the theme for the month of September across the rest of the AT sites.
But what is green adornment? What makes one piece of artwork greener than another?
A good place to start might be second hand adornment -- adornment from your local thrift store. The recent issue of Blueprint has some unique ideas for decorating with second-hand items. We like this arrangement of thrifted frames.
Unfortunately, when we think of secondhand art, our mind often wanders to those stacks of generic paintings in the back corner of our local thrift store.
Well, Blueprint even gives those dated paintings a fresh look. Find an appropriately sized painting, buy a few inexpensive parts, and you have a really fun and functional timepiece.
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Hi. I love consignment shops and garage sales in addition to thrift stores to find great second hand items. Even if you don't like the art you can use the frame for another picture or a mirror. anna www.green-talk.com
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Huge fan of any and all secondhand housewares sources, whether it's antique/vintage shops, stoop sales, salvation army, whatever.
In fact, I think I've decided that the lamp I need as part of my cure is going to have to be thrifted, because I don't like anything in my price range at the "first-hand" shops.
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Unfortunately, when we think of secondhand art, our mind often wanders to those stacks of generic paintings in the back corner of our local thrift store.
Much of what Sotheby's sells is "secondhand art," you know. :-) The difference between "antique" and "junk" is largely consumer demand -- many lesser MCM pieces commanding hefty price tags today logged some time at Goodwill or similar a decade or two back.
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Wende, I remember when I moved to New York from podunksville, Louisiana, 7 years ago. On my first walk "downtown" (Tribeca? Nolita?), I saw Eames chairs in a hip antique shop window, and thought "Antiques? My grandmother sold a pickup truck full of that stuff at her garage sale for $10 apiece last year..."
Those very chairs are probably on Ebay right now for $200 apiece.
She also sold off all my uncles' vintage concert t-shirts, and boy, was I pissed when I found out...
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