News» Time for a Change - New Arrivals Autumn Season 2019
For us it’s always good to start off in September with some new stock - once the summer holidays are over and the children packed off to school we have found that things can get busy, some want to re-stock their shop with something new, and others are thinking about the house, re-organising and de-cluttering, furnishing the old or new property, embracing changes.
This year the first week of September we have had new stock in from all corners of Europe, from ireland, some very old rustic tables, a most unusual solid elm corner bookcase, an original painted early 19th century pine cupboard with original shelves and in a Georgian grey colour
(the sort of thing we are always being asked for), we have stick chairs or famine chairs and a Gibson chair, currently being dry-scraped to traces of the original white paint.
Our best selling items continue to be storage furniture and from Central Europe, we have a new stock of pine chests just arrived this same week, including a number of pieces at around 115-125cm wide, if you are looking for a pair right now you might be lucky. But hurry as they sell fast. We have half a dozen new wide ones too at around 145cm wide from the North and North West, and some of these have been cut back to 45cm depth so they can fit in hallways and in the thosetighter spaces.
Also from Central and Eastern Europe, we have topped up our selection of benches and found several with original colours. Add to that original painted dressers and food cupboards with drawers in blues, greys and whites.
Adding to our folk art stock are naive paintings from America, UK, and Europe, small rocking horses in original paint and our usual selection of colourful peasant glazed earthenwares.
This autumn we are hoping to re-vamp our website and develop the fine art section. We have always sold fine paintings and art alongside the folk art as well as modern art and want to develop that side of things. To give you a preview here we have a lovely portrait from the early 19th century that our researchers have attributed to Maria Spilsbury and a most interesting watercolour by the prodigy, Delamotte.
Not long ago a toad visited our stores with a message of change, it’s always important to heed these seers of Nature, consequently we have been digging out some boxes that were put away and forgotten about and reducing the scale of the house collections, you may have seen some choice pieces appearing already from cricket tables, to nice pottery bits but there is more to come...