home: follow friday [ Mason & Painter ]

Explore the vintage emporium that is Mason & Painter. It’s definitely worth following vintage stores on social media as it’s often the way to see the new pieces come in and get first pick of the latest one off pieces.

Mason & Painter create a haven of treasures to explore with incredible styling ideas and inspiration for your home.

Follow at Mason & Painter on Instagram

home: featured [ the light keeper ]

What a unique mix of vintage and vintage-style goods for the home under one roof at The Light Keeper.

Yes, there’s lighting as the core of this beautiful brand, but explore the website or store to find the rest of the curated range of homewares and products that sit along side the vintage and new lighting.

They say;

The Light Keeper was established in 2016 after working for over 30 years in industry ranging from power generation and distribution to corporate infrastructure projects.

I’ve always had a love of lighting and especially a love of vintage and specialty designed illuminations. The Light Keeper now offers some inexpensive but stylish classics to rare and desirable collectables.

home: follow friday [ Wallis ]

We love a good rummage for vintage and antique finds but even better when someone else takes the hard work out of it and comes up with absolute treasures like Wallis.

Their Instagram feed is home to endless gorgeous treasures including lighting, storage, mirrors, small furniture and ceramics.

There’s regular updates, on the feed, of new vintage stock ready to purchase – so follow to catch the perfect vintage homeware that you were looking for.

home: trend [ distressed glass ]

This year we are seeing a resurgence of antique and distressed furniture and home accessories.

Glass and mirrors have a distressed aged look to them giving them not only an antique feel, but gives interest. This trend can also stretch to the garden with large outdoor paneled mirrors.

You can also see this style on glass to tables, trays and ornaments.

Guide:

Clockwise from top left:

mirror / laredoute.co.uk [ £75 ], dining table / rockettstgeorge.co.uk [ £695 ], round mirror / furntastic.co.uk [ £128 ], decanter / trouva.com [ £39.95 ], tray / trouva.com [ £117 ], drinks trolley / abigailahern.com [ £470 ]

home: favourite thing [ apothecary cabinet ]

This weeks pick is this gorgeous cabinet from rockettstgeorge.co.uk. Add character to a room with this antique style wooden cabinet, featuring 18 drawers to store paperwork and your treasures.

There is some lovely details including the brass label holders, and lettered plaques on the lower drawers, as well as the angled top level, giving a quirky look for all to admire.

Available now from rockettstgeorge.co.uk

[ £250 ]

home: nice price [ candle holder ]

With cactus’ sticking around in interior trends – we love this sale bargain at H&M.

This cute antiqued tone metal candle stick is the perfect little metallic home accessory to add to a room. Use a few on a mantelpiece, table centre or with other pieces clustered on a coffee table.

home: events [ art + antiques for everyone ]

Pop this date in your diary for July and get yourself a ticket for the Art + Antiques for Everyone event at Birmingham NEC.

Art & Antiques for Everyone is the largest and most established vetted art, interiors and antiques fair outside of London. Bringing together more than 200 specialist art and antiques dealers at the NEC in Birmingham. Buy with confidence from an inspiring array of eclectic categories of beautiful, unusual and rare objects from antiquity to the present day.

Discover a diversity of periods and styles crossing a variety of disciplines including ceramics, glass, paintings, jewellery and British and continental furniture to 20th century design, art deco items, silver, decorative collectables and contemporary pieces.

The Art & Antiques Summer Fair is taking place between Thursday 19 – Sunday 22 July 2018

Opening times:

Thursday – Saturday: 11am – 6pm
Sunday: 11am – 5pm

Book your tickets here

home: event [ Midcentury Modern ]

Back again for its Spring show is Midcentury Modern at Dulwich College, South London.

Find yourself amongst vintage furniture, lighting, and accessories from Scandinavia, America and the UK. Design classics and hidden gems are up for grabs, so make a date and head down to East Dulwich for this one day event.

With over 50 dealers all in one space, you are sure to find a little something to take home.

18th March – 10am – 4pm

£10

modernshows.com

home: favourite thing [ pendant light ]

With it’s ever changing collection, Rockett St George always has gorgeous lighting, including this antique brass cylinder pendant light. The long narrow shape creates subtle drama, with the brass finish adding a lux feel.

Available in two sizes [ £120 & £150 ] they look great as an individual light or grouped together at different lengths.

Rockettstgeorge.co.uk

home: favourite thing [ vintage sign letters ]

Letter accessories are a great way to personalise your home with new and old type styles, available online, in stores and from markets. It’s a unique alternative to home accessories – looking good wall mounted, hanging on doors or standing on sideboards or shelving.

We love these ‘individual black letters and numbers screened onto clear perspex with geometric detailing‘ sourced by Respect Your Elders and sold through Pedlars World (online) – £12 each.

Explore vintage shops and antiques fairs to find discarded vintage fonts previously used for signage in pubs, shops, and other businesses. Ebay is also a great source for these.

Spell out motivational words, names or statements or just choose single initials.

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