Antiques making the unloved loved
Antiques: Making the Unloved, Loved Again
One of the quiet pleasures of the antiques trade is rescuing the unloved.
They arrive looking slightly offended by the world — dusty chairs, crooked pictures, tables that have been ignored so long they’ve developed a personality. No one wanted them. Everyone walked past. Some were described as “a bit odd”, which in antiques is usually code for “interesting, but not yet fashionable”.
Then something magical happens.
A good clean, a sensible polish, perhaps a gentle tightening of a leg or two, and suddenly the same object starts to look rather pleased with itself. It hasn’t changed who it is — it’s simply been reminded.
Antiques are like that. They don’t shout. They wait. They bide their time until the right person comes along and says, “I don’t know why, but I love it.”
And that’s the moment we live for.
Because in the antiques world, yesterday’s unsellable is tomorrow’s treasure — and the truly good things always get their turn in the spotlight. Sometimes they just need someone to believe in them again.
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