#antique

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art claims to be the largest in the western hemisphere. It's right, but I'm not too sure about the arts bit. Don't misunderstand me. It's got tons of genuine art. It's also got tons of stuff that is hard to classify. I can't come to grips with a massive cube with a grandiose title. I allow that it's art, but not my sort. I need the big stone block to tell me something about the bloke whose name's on the caption, and it doesn't. That off my chest, I admit that any place with 3.3 million works of art truly is a wonder.


Jonathan Gash


#lovejoy #art

I decorated my house like a medieval gothic castle, European-style. Chandeliers and red velvet curtains. My bedroom is pink and black, my bathroom is totally Hello Kitty, I have a massive pink couch and a big antique gold cross.


Avril Lavigne


#bathroom #bedroom #big #black #castle

Remember preconceptions? Even though I'd landed hoping simply to somehow scrape the transatlantic fare home, I'd been an arrogant swine, imbued with that Old World toffee-nosed attitude: The United States of America's got no culture, not deep down.


Jonathan Gash


#lovejoy #preconceptions #attitude

Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect furniture, rugs, paintings, frames. It's my hobby to go around to shops and markets.


Ursula Andress


#around #buy #collect #even #frames

I have no particular interest in antiquities or antiques, but I like things to meet a certain aesthetic.


Stephen Bayley


#antiques #certain #i #interest #like

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.


H. Jackson Brown, Jr.


#dear #friends #most #old #old friends

It doesn't take money to have style, it just takes a really good eye. Sometimes you can find amazing culinary antiques that will make it feel like an old French kitchen.


Tyler Florence


#antiques #culinary #eye #feel #find

I wear a lot of different jewellery. I love to look for it when I'm abroad or if I find a great antique or vintage shop.


Lily Donaldson


#antique #different #find #great #i

Priceless things matter not for their value, but because they offer us an enduring reminder of stability and permanence.


Barbara Taylor Bradford


#values-in-life #life

Every inch of space was used. As the road narrowed, signs receded upwards and changed to the vertical. Businesses simply soared from ground level and hung out vaster, more fascinatingly illuminated shingles than competitors. We were still in a traffic tangle, but now the road curved. Shops crowded the pavements and became homelier. Vegetables, spices, grocery produce in boxes or hanging from shop lintels, meats adangle - as always, my ultimate ghastliness - and here and there among the crowds the alarming spectacle of an armed Sikh, shotgun aslant, casually sitting at a bank entrance. And markets everywhere. To the right, cramped streets sloped down to the harbor. To the left, as we meandered along the tramlines through sudden dense markets of hawkers' barrows, the streets turned abruptly into flights of steps careering upwards into a bluish mist of domestic smoke, clouds of washing on poles, and climbing. Hong Kong had the knack of building where others wouldn't dare.


Jonathan Gash


#city #hong-kong #lovejoy #business