But he said the efforts by some smugglers to disguise recently poached ivory as antique material have made the additional restrictions necessary.
Other ruins include a round Temple of Venus, remains of the town walls, traces of a temple dedicated to Hermes, important Roman mosaics from private homes, a ruined mosque with reemployed antique material, and extensive Arab fortifications.
For people involved in restoration projects, the 18th Century Company of Durham provides antique materials including flooring, paneling, fireplace surrounds and other hardware for the home.
The exhibition displays her textiles, garments, artwork and photographs, and traces Porter's journey from upholstery to clothes, taking in her abiding love of antique materials, particularly 1930s French voiles, Ottoman velvets, Swiss chiffons, Indian handprints, Islamic embroidery and the lavish brocades of Damascus, where she grew up.
For those who love vintage looks but don't have time to scour sales, several new designers are reworking antique materials to create modern pieces.
Pulled together with antique materials and furnishings sourced from flea markets, antique stores and salvage yards around the world, paired with the highest-quality and priced linens, upholstery and appliances.
Roller's "Cleopatra" (Oxford; $24.95), part of a series of brief lives on Women in Antiquity, gives a rich account of late Ptolemaic culture, and surveys the Queen's history — without any "post-antique material," but with a nimble use of "she may have" and "presumably" — in under two hundred pages.
The space he created for a fictional pair of empty-nesters relocating from the Upper East Side is filled with tribal art objects and patterned textiles — all antiques, recycled materials or sustainable materials, he said.
Paths, arbors, and fences use traditional or antique looking materials.
Each table, chair and bed was crafted by the hotel's owner from repurposed antique building materials.
Currin, like two of his contemporaries, the exciting figurative painters Elizabeth Peyton and Lisa Yuskavage, dispenses with irony — the nervous signal that, of course, one is smarter than some antique or vulgar material at hand would suggest.
