Then the widow, sitting on the floor beside the coffee table, lit her cigarette using a lovely antique crystal match striker.
Don't count the simple white bookcases she had installed in the living room, a space that beautifully updates 18th- and 19th-century classic English country house (George Smith sofas, clay birds, antique crystal match strikers) and northern European style (flat weave rug, an array of blue-and-white fabrics and a Swedish Mora clock).
The floor of the theater is antique white, matching her slim, slightly shimmering pants and tank top, both casually elegant designs by ThreeAsFour.
Some stores carry the pipe with bright brass or antique plating to match yellow-metal fixtures.
In early 2006 it was changed to a silver-colored antique finish to match the mother and father pins but in 2007 was changed back to gold-colored.
The best known, "Take Me to the Water," matches antique photographs of river baptisms with a CD of old gospel songs and sermons.
Lilly Bunn lifting an antique glass and silver match striker, $500, at KRB on the Upper East Side, 212-288-2221, krbnyc.com.
Cordier and his staff could almost invisibly patch torn paintings, create parts for 200-year-old clocks, fashion a chrome signature for the side of a 1933 Chevrolet, and make new pieces of patterned silverware to match an antique set.
Ms Perez matched the antique colors and repainted it.
Symonds' father inspired the rival loves of The Lady in the Tower (1955): neither woman is a match for antiques; fancifully, a film of that novel animates With a View of the Palace.
