Kya deLongchamps looks at the work of Swedish glass maker Bertil Vallien.

Kya deLongchamps says respect goes both ways at an antique fair or market, and will smooth the deal.

Kya deLongchamps says when it comes to a spring shine up, costume jewellery can be precious

Kya deLongchamps is vintage spring cleaning, starting with ceramics

WITH January behind us, the fair and auction season picks up at a fresh spring pace — so what are we likely to buy in vintage in the new season?

What does a vintage stylist wear on her wedding day? Why, her mum’s dress of course. Irene O’Brien on why she wore her mum’s gown walking up the aisle

Kya deLongchamps argues that vintage photographs and slides, even formerly forgotten ones, can one day reveal a whole life.

Kya deLongchamps encourages us to take a walk through a historical monument to man’s inhumanity to man — an architectural folly in West Waterford built in Famine times. 

Kya deLongchamps traces the history of wallpaper from the early stone-chilled castles of the medieval period, to the rococo mansions of the restoration and beyond.

Christmas may be over but there's no reason we can't relive some of its charitable moments.

Kya deLongchamps investigates the history of ‘insufflating’ and describes the manners and paraphernalia attached to the taking of ground tobacco.

 

Irene O’Brien is behind all the best vintage fashion shoots. So imagine how excited Paula Burns was when Irene took her vintage shopping?

Des O’Sullivan says this two-day event can be tremendous fun and can bring out the hunter in collectors.    

They may appear like they’ve had the Fr Ted treatment, but some of these vintage movie posters are testament to the social censorship of 1950s and 1960s Ireland.

And it sounds great. Who knew?