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Architectural Classics BlogArchitectural Classics BlogAt the Architectural Classics blog, we combine traditionally comprehensive information on caring for your antiques, with the offbeat Art Deco style fun and trivia from the world of old homes, lighting and door hardware. Articles
The tale of the knocker
2007-05-18 10:59:00 What a gorgeous, different, outstanding door knocker! It was created by a French sculptor, Emile-Antoine Bourdelle early in the 1900s. Bourdelle believed that history?s best sculptures were those that were integrated with architecture ? he would fit right in as a staff sculptor at Architectural Classics! He was born in 1861, and created the Medusa head ... More About: Knock , Tale
Salt chandeliers
2007-05-14 11:59:00 People have long been able and willing to justify the effort and time taken to create many amazing things in the name of religion and honoring higher powers. This faith and the things it can create are seen in the oddest of spots, including this salt mine in Poland, which houses a chapel with chandeliers ... More About: Lighting , Salt , Hand , Chandeliers , Lier
Rip off the old, iron on the new
2007-05-10 14:18:00 If you have, or have found a lamp with a gorgeous base, but a rotting or just plain bad-taste shade, you can re-cover the shade quite easily. We know that those of you reading this blog are antique nuts ? (it takes one to know one!), and if, like us, you are a perfectionist when ... More About: Lighting , Do It Yourself , Rip Off , Iron , The O
Brass and plastic
2007-05-06 16:38:00 The materials that we here at Architectural Classics get all gooey inside over are the brasses, coppers, and great quality woods made centuries ago. They are from a time where it took twice as many people, much more specialized knowledge, mistake-honed skill and absolutely no machines to make anything! Today, the skill in making the ... More About: Lighting , Plastic , Brass
Creative Salvage
2007-05-03 10:47:00 All sorts of architectural salvage pieces can look great in your home ? and depending on how you use them, many things can look great in any home, whether your décor is modern to dedicated antiquarian. The key things to remember are that you are not limited by a piece?s original use ? you are ... More About: Creative
How many consumers does it take to change a light bulb?
2007-04-30 11:10:00 We?re talking about the big shift, from the general use of incandescent globes to energy saving globes, which use only 25% as much energy as their old style cousins, and save us enormous amounts of both money and greenhouse gases over their lifetime. Who knew that a light bulb could create such an involved conversation ... More About: Change , Lighting , Light , How Many , Cons
The ?Wizard of Oz? Chandelier
2007-04-26 14:24:00 Lyman (usually just ?L.?) Frank Baum wrote The Wizard of Oz, one of my personal all-time favourite movies and one to which I know all of the lyrics, including whether the high voiced Munchkins or low-voiced Munchkins sing the lines! It is an absolute classic, as well as the first movie to be made in ... More About: Lighting , Hand , Lier , Wizard of Oz
Architectural Classics in your Google Toolbar
2007-04-24 10:54:00 Hey, when your grandparents (or parents ? or sister, as the case may be) said that the internet was just crazy fandangled new technology, I bet they didn?t realize that there?d be an easy link to a great place to buy all the household implements, decorations and fixtures they had in their home as a ... More About: News , Google , Classics , Class , Archi
Clever Cattys Opening Doors
2007-04-22 13:35:00 Now, cats may not be as easy to train as dogs ? but these videos of cats opening doors prove that this is not necessarily because they are less intelligent than dogs. It is only because they?ll only do things that benefit themselves, and don?t necessarily give a rat?s behind what you want them to ... More About: Other , Opening , Ever , Clever , Door
Ice Chandelier
2007-04-17 11:57:00 The Ice Hotel is located in Jukkasjärvi in Sweden ? a shivering 200 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle! All of the ice in the hotel, including the gorgeous clear columns, the intricate chandelier, and the impressive walls comes from the River Torne. This river apparently produces the clearest ice possible, because of the water?s ... More About: Lighting , Handel , Hand , Lier , Deli
Talking Door Knockers
2007-04-14 12:46:00 You can just imagine these knockers as a couple of grumpy old men, sitting at the side of a river fishing… or sitting on their porch perhaps whittling some wood or smoking a pipe! Those of you with the traditionally ubiquitous lion?s head knocker can also be grateful that not every doorknocker has this ... More About: Talk , Talking , King , Door , Knock
The Bug Rug?
2007-04-10 18:02:00 Well, the urban legend of the nail sticking up out of the floor holding up a chandelier in a room below (or you can substitute wires) may just have some truth about it ? but by gosh, it sure isn?t scary! Unlike the one about the murderer in the back seat of the car, or the ...
Lighting Throughout History
2007-04-06 12:12:00 When you look at the very extensive, very intricate, and very well-made lighting products in our antiques range, it is easy to lose sight of the fact that possibly the most authentic antique light is DIY, free and available to all at the low-low price of nothing - the simple campfire. The creation of fire ... More About: History , Story , Lighting , Stor , Light
Tooth? String? Doorknob
2007-04-03 11:42:00 As a child, I always wanted to pull out a loose tooth with a piece of string tied to a doorknob, and the other end tied to my tooth. I?m sure everyone who heard about this as a kid felt the same way! However, it wasn?t just me that chickened out of having it done, ... More About: Ring , String , Door , Knob , Tring
Wiring up a light fixture
2007-03-31 14:00:00 In the olden days ? when people were antiques ? low-hanging light fixtures were common. Traditionally, houses had much fewer windows and skylights were an absolute rarity, because of the higher cost of heating and cooling. People were also shorter on average in these times! If your old home has low-hanging light fixtures, either over ... More About: Ring , Light , Wiring
Newsweek discovers our door knobs
2007-03-30 11:18:00 We are so pleased to have had our doorknobs mentioned in News week as one the most unique and stylish around ? not to mention getting pride of place in the article, with just as much space as the entire text has! The door knobs featured are replicas of Louis XVI style door knobs ? ... More About: Cover , Week , Over , Covers
Looking at Locking
2007-03-28 11:04:00 One of the technical aspects of buying door hardware which is sometimes overlooked, to the sound of wails and moans, is fitting the handle you like to the lock that is already on your door. You may be in for more than you bargained for if you buy some gorgeous handles, whether they are reproductions ... More About: King , Look , Lock , Locking
The Who, What and Why of Antique Doorknobs
2007-03-25 17:22:00 Door knobs are a feature of your home that everybody notices, because nearly everybody that comes into your home must touch and utilise them. People will notice their look, and how that works with what is around it, and they will notice their feel ? whether they are made of a cold material, whether they ... More About: What , Hat , The Who , Anti , Ique
Human Bones Chandelier
2007-03-21 12:31:00 Perhaps the world?s most unusual chandelier is in the ossuary in Sedlec, in what used to be Czechoslovakia, now the Czech Republic. It may seem, when you first look at it, to be the world?s most macabre chandelier ? perhaps a relic of a long-forgotten Church of Satan ? but it is not. The cemetery ... More About: Human , Handel , Bones , Hand , Uman
Spring Home and Garden Show
2007-03-20 11:14:00 So dedicted to our work, and involved in the world of antiques are we here at Architectural Classics, that how do you think we spent most of our St Patrick?s Day? Not making ourselves green with imbibing too much Guinness; instead, like St Patrick did, we spent it converting those unfamiliar with the joys of ... More About: Garden , Home and Garden , Home , Show , Spring
7 Biggest Chandeliers in the World
More articles from this author:2007-03-13 10:50:00 Chandeliers have been a symbol of opulence and affluence for so long, that man has discovered strange, beautiful and most of all, monster-sized ways to make them! While we are well aware that it is not always size that counts most in how impressive something is, we?ve compiled this preliminary list of the 7 biggest ... More About: World , Handel , The World , Hand , Chandeliers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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