Needs more margaritas Guitar was a nice touch, missing Mike and Antique Bird Cage LARGE though.
Mr. Cristiano, who used to manage a pet store and also has a passion for antique bird cages, said he was not driven by gallows humor.
Among them are antique bird cages (collected for tributes to his friend and mentor John Cage); old-fashioned console televisions; homemade robots; and a marvelous painted-plaster elephant, culture of origin unknown, that appeared in his installation at the 1993 Venice Biennale.
It's hard to watch Taylor's films from the '50s and '60s not because they are bad — though many are strange, particularly "Suddenly, Last Summer," in which a demented, punitive old millionairess (Katharine Hepburn) makes her entrance in an antique bird-cage elevator, and demands that her sexy young niece Cathy (Taylor) be lobotomized — but because they have an outsize, mythic potency.
In fact, Ms. Erdman is the proud owner of "a fake-antique bird cage with a porcelain owl in it" that she bought from the discount retailer Ross.
In the lobby, antiques and Oriental carpets surround an old-fashioned bird-cage elevator with a metal grillework door.
On the floor is a more local antique: a bird cage that Turks used to carry their quails to sell at the market.
"When I started in the early 1990s, jewelry was at a real low point," Bittar, 43, said recently over coffee at his showroom in Soho, which is a wonderland of glass cases full of jewelry, a rustic wood table, antique mirror, bird cage and taxidermy ferret — and not far from where he used to work as a street vendor when he was in his 20s.
"When I had a chance to get a hold of this plane it was pretty exciting, because I'd been flying P-51's and a lot other exotic antique war birds," said Mr. Marshall, who was taught to fly the jet in Alabama in 1998 by retired Soviet Air Force pilots.
As you head toward the citadel of Gia Long's magnificent Imperial City, along elegant Tran Hung Dao Street, where vendors sell antiques and birds in Rococo-style cages beside frangipani-dotted riverbanks, you begin to understand why the emperor chose this spot.
The paintings of Nicole Awai, from Trinidad, take colonialism as their subject in overlaid images of tropical birds, antique prints and illustrations from the British-published schoolbooks she grew up with.
