CONTEXT DESIGN

14/11/2025

What is art?

26/10/2025

For those looking for a nice reproduction American(Philadelphia Comb back armchair. Here it is…

30/09/2025

24/08/2025

Understated, refined country elegance in Western Ontario / Neustadt

24/08/2025

So is it the numbers or the message I am supposed to heed…😂

01/07/2025

This seemed to be a standout for me this week.

Randolph John Rogers (1825-1892): A Monumental Carved Marble Model of the Borghese Vase, with mask handles, the egg and dart carved rim above trailing vines and classical Roman figures carved in relief, with acanthus scrolls below, on a stand with stiff leaf carved border above a tapering fluted circular base
127cm diameter, 173cm high

18/04/2025

I saw this last week when I was meeting a friend at Sherway Gardens. Literally “the writing on the wall” for Tesla. Right beside the now bankrupt Saks / Hudsons Bay ‘anchor’ store… Because the times they are a changin…🎶

27/12/2024

Foundation Maeght

19/11/2024

I went to an auction preview yesterday while dropping off a few things I wanted to consign. I have never actually purchased a historical document, but suspect I will venture there sooner or later. I find it astonishing what remains in estates and private hands in Europe, and the UK. My interest was peaked several years ago when my “buzz word” notification Elizabethan produced an elaborate vellum document with incredible penmanship, as well as an illustration and signature of Elizabeth the 1st accompanied by her double sided wax seal attached to the bottom of the document with what I believe was a standard cotton ribbon.

History, rarity and context has allot to do with location, awareness and luck. The ability to purchase something like this in Canada seems incredibly remote but my time here, accompanied by hours of searching, refining and learning makes it possible to believe what once seemed unimaginable.

Here are a few pictures of some military, aeronautical offerings in the same sale. You just never know what somebody will walk in the door with over here.

Read the description of the one early document with seal. Historically significant, but not flashy enough for my purposes which will be to frame and display one of the queens!!!

16/11/2024

Last nights walk to the Great Western Arms, for another Blockley social gathering..

12/11/2024

Extremely detailed carved Burr walnut s***f box, which depicts a harbour scene, tall ships, bridge, buildings and people. 8.5 cm wide. Offered for sale at brianknappantiques.com