Notes from the house

Journal

Pieces, restoration, buying trips, and the town that furnished the world.

Louis XV-style trumeau mirror with Cupid, in Room III
Urnica

Three mirrors, three kinds of honesty

  • Condition
  • Mirrors
  • Room III

The first three mirrors in the catalogue are a nineteenth-century trumeau, a twentieth-century pair in the Chippendale taste, and a small Venetian frame with its losses left alone. Together they explain how we describe things.READ MORE

Pair of giltwood mirrors in the Chippendale taste, Room III
Urnica

A house in Meda

  • Brianza
  • The house

Why an antiques house belongs in Meda, in a building that has traded in antiques since 1958 — and what we promise about every piece that passes through it.READ MORE