While some antique furniture is best kept behind velvet ropes in do-not-touch settings, American oak begs to be used. There's nothing froufrou about it; even pieces gussied up in Art Nouveau trappings ...

Learn how to identify valuable pieces and where to find them. Laurey W. Glenn While French antique markets and little shops in the Cotswolds seem to get all the fanfare in the antiquing world, ...

Antique collecting is more than a weekend pastime for Bob and Susan Detweiler. The Cambria couple has dedicated their entire home to their passion for Early American antiques. Bob, a retired educator ...

According to Karen Keane, CEO of Skinner auction house and an appraiser on the Antiques Roadshow, the top tier of the market will increase in value. But she points out that the market goes up and down ...

According to Brian Bartizek, the main focus of his business, Bartizek’s American Antiques, is New England furniture made before 1860. “We sell at about six shows a year, including Lebanon, Tolland, ...

Gary R. Sullivan has passionately pursued the world of antiques since the age of 10 and now is a nationally recognized authority on early American clocks with over 45 years of experience in the ...

Even for Jeffrey Arnstein, a nationally prominent figure in Early American antique furniture restoration and conservation, it was all but asking for the impossible. In the summer of 2002, an errant ...

If the year 2017 affirmed one thing in the auction world, it was that, yes, prices can soar ever higher. A turquoise velvet Jean Royère polar bear sofa sold for over $550,000 in Paris, an Alberto ...

"Recycle" seems to get all the glory in the reduce, reuse, recycle hierarchy. Who doesn't love a story about plastic bottles being turned into baby blankets or a rug woven from bicycle tires? But ...

When it comes to vintage furniture pieces passed down through generations, it's easy to convince yourself that everything from that early colonial Windsor chair in the guest room to the intricately ...

There are a few good ways to ruin the original finish on an antique chair, and Karen Keane, CEO of Skinner Inc. in Boston, has seen them all. Karen has examined antique chairs that people have ...