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I love things that have a vintage feel to them, just because there's a certain texture to them that we just don't have anymore. In fact I think I've been stuck in the 50s or 60s for a while.
Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans - the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum.
I used to collect vintage clothing - exquisite lace dresses, embroidered shawls and ornate jewelry - but that's just not me any more.
When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
To be modern means to like antique furniture - and youthful neurosis.
I have eclectic taste, and I love vintage style mixed with glamour and old world charm.
I love things that are old and beautiful and tell a story, even if it's a sad one.
I love old funky things. Color just makes me happy, and things all lined up.
I am nostalgic of an era I never knew.
I love clothing and still shop a lot of vintage.
If thirty-two is old and decrepit, what does that make you, old man?" "Very valuable in the antique market." Dr.
A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.
I love vintage shopping in flea markets, vintage stores and even Ebay.
Short boughs, long vintage.
I'm an old-timey gal.
I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
Old Americana vintage gangster stuff has a fantastical feel; it feels less dirty in a way. It feels like the opera of crime.
I like vintage stuff. I go through a vintage store and find things that I feel like I fit right into them because of all the years that they've been used.
Gold wrapped old crap.
I've gotten so far past the Android and iPhones that I'm back to a flip-phone. It's funny, you can buy antique flip-phones online. A lot of us collect them. Clearly, they're considered antiques.
The heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art history.
I'm really into antiques. But really into it because of my father, who got me into them in the first place. He's an interior designer and he's really into going to antique shows and getting up really early on Sundays and driving out to these weird little towns north of Hamilton.
I love a vintage look that's also a bit rock n' roll.
I just love vintage. I have far too many vintage dresses.
Sign outside a country shop: We buy junk and sell antiques.
On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out.
I am old, but the word to me means familiar, comfortable. Accustomed after long and venerable use. Not dilapidated and useless.
Japanese would never 'restore' an antique. The signs of age and wear are to them its most beautiful qualities.
Real age, as I came to see from the genuine pieces that passed through my hands, was variable, crooked, capricious, singing here and sullen there, warm asymmetrical streaks on a rosewood cabinet from where a slant of sun had struck it while the other side was as dark as the day it was cut.
Trees are your best antiques.
Defunct, adj.
You brought home a typewriter for me.
I love old architecture. I love collecting furniture, mixing really earthy things with the very polished. I don't come from an interiors background, so I'm not an expert. I just enjoy going to antiques shows and finding interesting things.
I have very old-fashioned tastes.
Vintage was brilliant!
I do a lot of vintage shopping. I love going to second-hand stores.
Cheap, sentimental things
My father loved antique shops and shows, and quite a bit of my childhood involved outings to dim, dusty places packed with cast-off treasures.
Old Time the clock-setter.
What can I say, I'm a sucker for abandoned stuff, misplaced stuff, forgotten stuff, any old stuff which despite the light of progress and all that, still vanishes every day like shadows at noon, goings unheralded, passings unourned, well, you get the drift.
Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
Pale-gray rug. Several pieces of chrome-and-black-leather
The pictures are postcard reproductions of Old Masters. She has lots of metal animals about an inch long, little wooden shoes, painted boxes only big enough to hold stamps.
I like vintage shopping, but I also like to mix in high-end.
We're just like the antiques. We grow old and get scarred and beat up along the way, and the only question becomes whether we're going to make it until we realize what we already have is valuable." --Faith Bass Darling's Last Garage Sale
A wilderness of gilt, gleaming in the slant from the dust-furred windows: gilded cupids, gilded commodes and torchieres, and
undercutting the old-wood smell
the reek of turpentine, oil paint, and varnish.
I'm old-fashioned beyond my years.
My mom decorated with lots of antiques. I never liked it when I was a little girl - I wanted to live in a modern house. But now I love it.
When I rule the world," screamed the Bogey, "all antiques will be destroyed! Antiques will be things of the past!
Modern Furniture for Modern Homes
I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.
I have a beautiful Hellenistic gold and garnet ring - it's more than 2,200 years old, but it looks very modern.
People are now layering all kinds of different things together. Eighteenth century, 19th century, rustic, modern. Three dimensional printed pieces, very high end technological pieces, but mixed with local artisan stuff.
Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.
I'm big on reworking vintage. Also, buying one great piece that lasts forever - to me, that is total sustainability.
I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.
I have a lot of vintage, so my style is pretty eclectic of different time periods and styles. I would describe it as comfortable, creative, and vintage.
I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition
I'm not old-fashioned.
It's old. Really old.
Is that a technical term?
Yeah, it's technical. Translation: I don't know how old it is, but it's really fucking old.
Wow. That is old.
Elegance is timeless
Ugster vinyl pumps, Partridge Family records, plastic daisy jewelry, old postcards ... It's a magpie Christmas market.
My wardrobe consists of antique clothes, many of my designs, plus shoes and shirts from Brooks Brothers and Paul Stuart.
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
Beautiful machines from 1920s and '30s, when automobiles were both monstrous and sexy at the same time.
The intricate engraving, fine lines, beading and milgrain accents echo an era defined by elaborate embellishments.
I think when you get interested in antiques, the most frustrating thing is that books don't have enough photos. When you go to a flea market or garage sale, you see lots of things you've never seen before and you have no idea what the price is going to be or should be.
I love playing around with vintage fabrics and lace.
I'm an old bag - I like old thing.
I have always appreciated vintage clothing, but after working on 'Call the Midwife' for six months, I love moving away from vintage in my day-to-day wear.
I love anything old. I love to travel and especially like to visit the places where my books are set. My husband and I often stay in out-of-the-way inns and houses built in times past. It's fun and it gives a wonderful sense of a by-gone era.
What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum! That's an amusing relic of our past.
I like wearing classic pieces with a modern twist.
Buying a particular vintage because everyone tips it and then waiting for it to mature is like gambling. The thrill is in placing the bet. Once the race is run or the match is played, you'll either win or lose. Until that happens, you're caught in this wonderful, agonising sense of expectation.
I have two vintage typewriters. One just about works and the other hasn't a hope in hell, bless it. But they're both beautiful, and they'll stay with me just as long as there's a roof over my head.
I love old, vintage cars. I've got a 1936 Dodge Touring Sedan right now and there's only five of them registered in the world, and I absolutely love working on it. It's gorgeous.
My favorite thing about decorating is mixing different periods and styles. If you have something that's old, and you really do want to mix those styles, then you have to add something that's obviously modern with it. You can't put a kind of a mediocre thing in the middle.
I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.
There is a classic esthetic which romantics often miss because of its subtlety. The classic style is straightforward, unadorned, unemotional, economical and carefully proportioned. Its purpose is not to inspire emotionally, but to bring order out of chaos and make the unknown known.
I love vintage shopping, I think it's really fun. And I love the feeling of finding the most amazing piece for less.
I collect traditional Aubusson tapestries that you can hang on a wall. The last lot I bought were from an antiques fair in London.
It looked like an old painting, but real.
Furniture that is too obviously designed is very interesting, but too often belongs only in museums.
I love to collect modern art.
The I-Remember-Whensters lumbered in with their musty catalogues of the bygone, dragging IVs of distilled nostalgia behind them on creaky wheels,
I toss the formal dress from 1905 onto the chair next to him. He glances up, removing the headphones.
"Did you decide to do a bit of shopping in London?"
I give him a wry smile. "Does this look like something I'd buy? Your great-grandfather picked it out.
With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears; The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.
I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.
My dad
he would call it timeless, or classic. The type of beauty that no matter what time, age or era, would always still be beautiful. She was beautiful.
I'm a big fan of old boots.
A sign in the window advertised the
long extinct Miller Genuine Draft.
I'm an old-fashioned girl.
There was an innocent piece of dinner-furniture that went upon easy castors and was kept over a livery stable-yard in Duke Street, Saint James's, when not in use, to whom the Veneerings were a source of blind confusion. The name of this article was Twemlow.
I actually collect old First and Second World War memorabilia.
I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know.
If I find anything vintage, I'll have it tailored for my body.
OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an "old" book.
I'm a little old-fashioned.
Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into
are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing
for long years.
And for this reason, some old things are lovely
warm still with the life of forgotten men who made them.
What's old doesn't need to be old-fashioned. It gets reborn.
You have to fight against being an antique.