Vintage View

Vintage view: Restoring the original walls of glass, the period sash

Kya deLongchamps encourages the restoration of the endangered and highly symmetrical, period sash window. 

Sat, 17 Jun, 2017

Vintage View: How to maintain a vintage marble fireplace

Kya deLongchamps explores the best way to clean and protect that gorgeous old marble fireplace surround.

Sat, 10 Jun, 2017

Vintage view: Tips on how to spot the real thing

Painting or print, decorator’s piece or an authentic artwork? Kya deLongchamps gives you some tips on how to spot the real thing. 

Sat, 03 Jun, 2017

Vintage view: Fashions of the 19th century

Bouffant backsides are not peculiar to our time. Kya deLongchamps explores the rise and fall of the bustle in fashions of the 19th century.

Sat, 20 May, 2017

Vintage view: Collecting and pinning

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

Sat, 13 May, 2017

Vintage view: Car boot sale items to look out for

Sat, 18 Feb, 2017

Vintage view: Victorian valentine cards

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

Sat, 11 Feb, 2017

Vintage view: Roman coins

Sat, 04 Feb, 2017

Vintage view: The Book of the Home

Sat, 19 Nov, 2016

Vintage view: Piero Fornasetti, engraver, artist and designer

Sat, 05 Nov, 2016

Vintage view: Make a record of your valuables

Kya deLongchamps says taking an inventory of your valuables is worth the inconvenience.

Sat, 29 Oct, 2016

Vintage view: Pendants and chandeliers

Sat, 22 Oct, 2016

Vintage view: Vintage cocktail cabinet

Kya deLongchamps takes an interesting look at the drink’s culture of the early to mid 20th-century and the remains of those days — the artful, beautiful and sometimes tacky cabinetry of the cocktail era.

Sat, 15 Oct, 2016

Vintage view: Egyptian-Revival style

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

Sat, 08 Oct, 2016

Vintage view: Couture shoes

Sat, 24 Sep, 2016

Vintage view: The ancient art of the automaton

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

Sat, 17 Sep, 2016

Vintage view: 10 tips to not lose shirt

Kya deLongchamps offers 10 starter tips to get what you want from online auctions without losing your shirt.

Sat, 03 Sep, 2016

Vintage view: String shelving from Sweden

Sat, 13 Aug, 2016

Vintage view: Pieces from the Age of Walnut

Sat, 30 Jul, 2016

Vintage view: Glittering enamel work known as guilloché

Sat, 21 May, 2016

Vintage view: Winnie-the-Pooh

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

Sat, 14 May, 2016

Vintage view: Collectable thimbles

Sat, 16 Apr, 2016

Vintage view: Four mid-century occasionals

Kya deLongchamps takes a look at four mid-century occasionals the retro adventurers might come across while scouting for treasure.

Sat, 12 Mar, 2016

Vintage view: Finnish textile designer, Marjatta Metsovaara

Sat, 05 Mar, 2016

Vintage view: Kitchen collectables

Kya deLongchamps fancies some collecting for the kitchen that’s still within its use-by date.

Sat, 27 Feb, 2016

Vintage view: Lost masterpieces

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

Sat, 05 Sep, 2015

Vintage view: The history and character of old delft tiles in Amsterdam

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

Sat, 29 Aug, 2015

Vintage View: Mona Lisa Smile

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

Sat, 18 Jul, 2015

Vintage View: Tut-tut

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

Sat, 04 Jul, 2015

Vintage view: the gorgeous and crumbling

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. 

Sat, 20 Jun, 2015

Vintage View: Smile, it’s a SylvaC rabbit

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

Sat, 30 May, 2015

Vintage view: Ferdinand Porsche’s VW Beetle

Sat, 21 Feb, 2015