Tag Archives: antiques

World Pieces

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According to Akil Tanriguden, proprietor of the upmarket Re-Unique Art & Antique Center in Old Saybrook, a certain magic happens when someone enters his shop. “Say you come in looking for a statue of Buddha. If you stay just …

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Keyed Up

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Who put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp?

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Bringing It Back

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In the front room at Lyric Hall Antiques and Conservation, a 400-year-old mirror is undergoing surgery. Whole passages of its gilt frame—florid segments that cross the mirror like vines—are missing and have to be carefully recreated, then gilded to match. …

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On Occasion

Walker-Loden Antiques

At its Church Street location near Grove, among  so many bustling office buildings, Walker-Loden gets its fair share of lunch-hour browsers.

Perhaps they’re in need of a get-well card. Or a hostess gift for a dinner party that evening. Maybe …

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A Hall for All

John Cavaliere of Lyric Hall

When it opened a couple of years ago, the legend of Lyric Hall dwelled on the past: how the back end of an old building in Westville had been elegantly renovated back to one of its original purposes, a theater …

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Decon Mission

Joe DiRisi of Urban Miners

Joe DiRisi is not the easiest guy to photograph. As I followed him through his warehouse full of salvaged materials, trying to snap a portrait, we passed rows of cast iron bathtubs, typewriters, laboratory cabinets, windows, and lumber. Joe simply …

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Presents from the Past

Carol Orr | The English Building Market

It might as well be through the looking glass: an intriguing space stacked with strange, beautiful creations from another world.

Or rather, another time.

This is the English Building Markets, a most unlikely vintage and antiques shop on Chapel Street …

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