The Staatskapelle orchestra, which during the Cold War had been the ensemble of East Berlin's leading opera house, no longer has quite the antique sheen that it did when Barenboim brought it to Carnegie for an electrifying Schumann series, in 2004.
In fact I quite like an antiques programme; a good dose of Antiques Roadshow on a Sunday evening is the televisual equivalent of doing your homework or ironing your shirts in preparation for the week ahead, only featuring decidedly more pieces of almost valuable but disappointingly chipped bits of crockery.
To the Editor: Tony Perrottet says "there is nothing quite so satisfying" as antique directories to prostitutes from the Italian Renaissance through fin de siècle New Orleans.
The throwback spell is broken by the contemporary instruments in the dashboard that do not quite jibe with the antique toggle switches.
The number of truly antique homes is quite limited.
Most accommodation is in village cottages and townhouses, so this beachfront villa in the hamlet of La Noue, with its parquet floors, pine-panelled walls and antique furnishings, is quite a find.
Once I moved into my first apartment, and I bought my darling (but small) antique dresser, I quite inadvertently developed my own "capsule wardrobe," just with two seasons instead of four.
Mr. Henry was himself a collector of colonial artifacts and considered quite an authority on American antiques and colonial life, according to the exhibition catalog.
NO longer quite the inaccessible Shangri-La of antique travelogue, Bali remains, for artists of all kinds and seekers of a spiritual bent, an isle of pristine enchantments.
The dealer had had quite a run on the cheaper antique models by cranberry pickers this year, & the objects were consequently in short supply throughout the Cape.
