Designer, Nestor Santa Cruz, uses antique pieces to finish an elegant and creative home in Austin, Texas. Mixing antique and vintage pieces in the sleek and elegant foyer, provides subtle and understated hint of the style of the rest of the home.
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The studio in Lord Snowden's Old House, originally designed by his uncle, Oliver Messel, features miniature models of the home, a plaster mask and artist proofs. Build your own artist's studio, by layering antique furniture and accessories with industrial elements.
Lee Stanton Antiques is proud to announce the renovation of the La Cienega showroom. Thanks to a newly designed showroom front and expanded window casing, more furniture, accessories and art will soon be on display for customers to explore.
Please visit our showroom during renovations, and save up to 30% off inventory purchased in store. Or, if you shop online, you'll be rewarded with a credit in the amount of your shipping cost for use towards future purchases.
Please drop by, and enter through our side-drive and through our garden court-yard to see our inventory.
Designer, Melián Randolph, kept the room clean, choosing a twisted-leg cabinet, sleek chair and honey colored terra-cotta accessories. Use pieces from Lee Stanton Antiques to create a similar effect:
Finding their way into our homes, industrial furnitures have become statement pieces because of their strength in form and function. However, have you ever thought of where they came from and why they are in our homes instead of the factories and workshops where they were originally used?
Metal postmasters desk (AX7)
The workshops where the blacksmith, woodworker or glassblower painstakingly created objects by hand have given way to assembly lines with automated equipment. The interesting workbenches, handsome metal chairs, and unusual cabinets for specific tools in these workshops are more coveted today than the works of art these cratsment created. Unfortunately, most people today don't appreciate hand forged, hand carved and blown glass objects. As a result, these workshops have closed and the contents sold for us to enjoy in our homes.
When I travel to Italy, Belgium and France I can't help but notice the abandoned factories. Mills in Italy that produced beautiful silk fabrics, factories in Belgium that produced wonderful Belgium Linens, potteries in France what produced fine pottery and porcelains all closed and abandoned because of less expensive imports from the far east.
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These grand and beautiful structures made of brick and stone with metal windows, now abandoned and left with broken panes, were built in the prosperous days of the evolving industrial revolution. Again, the pride in the products these craftsmen produces is exemplified by the contents of the factories in which they were created. As I mentioned, these were prosperous times and the furnishings in these factories were often beautifully designed by the likes of MacKintosh, Le Corbusier, Perriand, Eames, Magistretti, and Jacobson. Today, these sleek and strong architectural objects now adorn our homes with a renewed purpose.
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As we put these handsome pieces in our homes, let us remember that the strength of their form represents the strength in their former functional life. Let us appreciate the cultural and economic history they represent. After all, the availability and rise in popularity of these industrial pieces in their second lives today are the result of the decline of the purpose for which they were originally intended.
Incorporating antique cabinetry into any room's design provides both storage and charm. Whether in a sitting room (above), kitchen (below) or bedroom (below), antique cabinets are a design staple.
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Designer Sera Herhsam-Loftus mixes rustic antiques with fresh greens to create a relaxed summer paradise. Recreate a similar feel with architectural ornaments from Lee Stanton Antiques.
Recreate this atmosphere by using refined antiques with rustic pottery and whimsical accent pieces.
