Love is like a butterfly, as Kya deLongchamps derides the age old and still popular practise of traditional collecting and pinning.

Kya deLongchamps looks at the ancient roots and courtly early expressions of St Valentine’s Day.

 

 

The Egyptian-Revival style was made popular by a little French man with a huge vision, writes Kya deLongchamps.

 

Kya deLongchamps is moved by the centuries old skills used in the automaton. 

 

 

 

Kya deLongchamps celebrates a bear of very little brain, but very large heart, with some collectables for your honey pot.

 

 

Kya deLongchamps takes us through some moments in the fascinating history of lost masterpieces.

Imagine yourself a velvet-dressed gentleman, your boot tops frothy with lace, lounging around Amsterdam in 1602. 

Kya deLongchamps pauses to consider the most enigmatic face in the World.

Kya deLongchamps explores a curious moment in the afterlife of King Tutankhamun.

Since my schooldays, with a fist of Tayto in one hand and a faded photocopy from the OPW scrunched in the other I have been lumbered with a weird devotion to ruined buildings. 

COLLECTING should not be all about high value and rarity. We’re complex creatures full of heart.