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(Young Collectors)Texas (and Several Other Places) in the Rearview Mirror
The Young Collector
by Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond
We've been at it again. Within the last month, we've been to Delaware for the Winterthur furniture forum, to Texas for the Round Top shows, and to Wheeling, West Virginia, for the Oglebay show.
This year, Andrew decided we'd drive to Delaware on Wednesday, ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: Connoisseurship Revisited
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondSome time ago, we talked about how we believe the "good, better, best" paradigm had run amok with "best" becoming the focus, as the paradigm seemed to be moving toward "junk, less junky, worth owning." Now we've started wondering if the whole idea of connoisseurship ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: Brilliant Image, Fuzzy Concept
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondThe antiques industry needs a public relations agent desperately. We have a real image problem, and public relations agents can cure all sorts of bad press. Celebrity scandals are routinely swept away by good PR, and whenever the political winds change, companies come out of ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: Self-Service with a Smile
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondNow that all our Christmas secrets are out in the open, we can talk about what an ordeal Christmas shopping was this past year. First of all, let's just acknowledge that Andrew is possibly the worst person in the world to buy a gift for. ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)All I Really Need to Know about Antiques I Learned in Kindergarten
The Young Collector
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondSometimes adults have a tendency to overcomplicate things. We talk about extenuating circumstances, right and wrong, gray areas, and we use big words or abstract concepts, but in reality, most things either are or they're not.Most of the time, life is really simple—get ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: Relevance Revisited
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondSo, where were we? We had been talking about relevance—the art of being useful/staying useful or as Merriam-Webster puts it, "having significant and demonstrable bearing on the matter at hand"—and the reasons antiques had once been relevant. The problem, as we mentioned last month, is ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: It's All Relevant (Or at Least It Used to Be)
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondForgive us. We're often not sure where we are, or, at least, not sure of where we've been. One of the hazards of so much business travel is that we're constantly trying to remember with whom we had a particular conversation and where we were ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: A Collector's Homily
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondA few weeks ago we attended a lovely late summer wedding in Glenside, just outside Philadelphia. A friend from our days at Winterthur, Kelli Lucas, was tying the knot, and we were delighted to be there: a beautiful wedding, a gorgeous day, and a reception ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: Have Van, Will Travel
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondWe are gypsies of the open road. In our minds, it always starts out something like gypsies from a Sherlock Holmes story, with a brightly colored mysterious caravan, everything neatly stowed and tied down as we trundle along the backroads, fresh air blowing in our ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collectors' Guide to Antiques Terminology
The Young Collectorby Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondWhen Hollie was small, she decided she needed a horse and began a campaign that only a grandfather would tolerate. She wrote horse auction dates on his wall calendar, counted the money in his wallet, and read aloud livestock ads from the weekly ... (Read More)
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