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The Antique Lighthouse

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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The Antique Lighthouse makes an outing to Manayunk in Philadelphia worthwhile. Even this destination, a compound of former textile mills, requires looking closer, as it’s located several huffing blocks up the hill behind Main Street.
Owner Rollin Wilber isn’t a particularly outgoing guy. But get him talking about his work, restoring lamps from the early electric era or converting late-nineteenth-century kerosene-fueled pieces, and he lights up. During our conversation, he offered to show us the room where he and his staff of six ply their trade. (Ask to see the 1,000-square-foot metal shop that’s also on-site.) Among other large pieces in inventory, a recently restored $21,000, 37-light Maria Teresa chandelier with sine-curve arms was dripping with crystals. (via Elements of Living)

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Crown City Hardware

Updated Apr 11, 2006

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Growing up in California, Richard Perris was crazy about movies, and even got himself a degree in cinema. But instead of becoming a producer, he took over Crown City Hardware, the store his grandfather bought in 1936. As a youngster, Perris worked in the store on weekends and became interested in period hardware. "'Bungalow Heaven' is near here, and somebody was always searching for the right knob or hinge," he explains. "So now we specialize in Victorian, Craftsman and Deco hardware and restoration items." Crown City offers a 400-page catalog of the stores’s complete stock as well as a 60-page version that highlights popular items. As for the movies, Perris maintains a connection by providing hardware for sets requiring period authenticity. (via Elements of Living)

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Great Jones Home

Updated Apr 11, 2006

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Carrie Hayden, a sucker for all things glamorous, named her Seattle store Great Jones Home as a tribute to New York City’s Great Jones Street. Nothing here is mainstream; the custom, exotic and unusual are the norm. In addition to reinvented antiques (“Something’s always changed—we reupholster, relacquer, repaint”), Hayden sells luxurious embroidered and quilted custom linens from lesser known but top-quality European manufacturers like Bagni Volpi Noemi in Italy. The store’s interior itself is worth a visit—bold brown-and-cream-painted stripes decorate one section of wall, and high ceilings and skylights provide natural light even on rainy days. Displays are innovative too—yard-long samples of fabrics are hung from robe hooks on the wall so you can take one home and drape it over a chair to really see what it would look like in your house (so much better than the standard swatch that disappears on a sofa or chair). (via Elements of Living)

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Alma Ston

Updated Apr 6, 2006

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Master stone carvers are rare in the US, which makes California especially fortunate to have Clark Mitchel and his company, Alma Stone. Mitchel spends his time carving gorgeous fireplaces, sinks, moldings and other architectural elements; incising letters; drafting; and restoring old stone treasures. Originally a sculptor, Mitchel trained with the best. He learned restoration, sculpturing, drafting and carving techniques during apprenticeships in England and Italy. As for the name, it means "soul" in Spanish, volunteers Mitchel. It’s also the name of his grandmother and his daughter. (via Elements of Living)

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Antique Appliances

Updated Apr 6, 2006

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Purists love Antique Appliances. Here they can find carefully restored 1920s–1960s iceboxes and ranges that will do justice to their Craftsman bungalows, Shaker saltboxes and Prairie ranches. Owner John Jowers started out selling new appliances, but during the winter months, when half the town’s population went to Florida, customers were few and far between. To keep his staff busy, he began restoring and customizing vintage appliances. Business is now so brisk—99 percent of it comes from his website—that he no longer sells the new ones. Customers are from every state in the union as well as Canada and Europe. (via Elements of Living)

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Andersen & Stauffer

Updated Apr 6, 2006

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Alan Andersen and Tom Stauffer specialize in exact copies of seventeenth- , eighteenth- , and nineteenth-century American antiques. Andersen has perfected techniques to simulate centuries-old surfaces, a vital part of restoration work, while Stauffer, master cabinetmaker and joiner, makes sure that every piece is as close to the original as possible. Although their reproduction work is highly respected, Andersen admits that the shop gets really excited when a rare antique comes in. "Recently we worked on a line and berry Chester County highboy," he says. "It was the only one in existence. What a thrill." (via Elements of Living)

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