Do you like interiors with history?Want to decorate your apartment with beautiful things from past centuries, but don't know how to do it and where to buy everything you need? Then you will find it useful to read our recommendations and expert advice
Antique or vintage?
If you decide to decorate your interioritems "with a touch of antiquity", then you need to decide what exactly you want - antique items or vintage. It is a mistake to think that they are the same thing. The definition of "antiques" includes items whose history is more than 50 years old. Vintage style includes interior items and furniture that are not less than 15 years old, but not more than 50.
In what styles is this appropriate?
Antiques will be appropriate in houses and apartments,which are located in the historical parts of the city. It emphasizes the belonging of the housing to a certain era. Antique items look harmoniously in interiors with elements of historical styles, as well as in interiors, albeit modern, but located in historically built houses with preserved stucco, parquet and other "old-fashioned" attributes. Vintage is good for interiors in the styles of kitsch, postmodernism, art deco. Such items (depending on their country of origin) can become the finishing touches of the Mediterranean or Scandinavian styles. Vintage lamps, chairs, beds, floor lamps and other elements can diversify the monochromatic range of the floor or walls. And if you choose the right textiles for vintage furniture, it can become the main art object in a colorful eclectic or national interior.
Light
Girandoles, 19th century oil lamps, wall sconces, kerosene lamps, candelabra... The variety of antique lighting fixtures is simply dizzying. What to choose?
Be sure to take into account the style of the interior,the area of the room and the height of the ceilings. In a small bedroom, a small oil lamp on a bedside table or small wall sconces will be appropriate. In a spacious living room with high ceilings, chandeliers with crystal pendants will look good, and you can place several girandoles on the table. When equipping an antique lighting fixture with modern bulbs, install a dimmer: it will allow you to adjust the lighting level. It is best not to make it very bright: this will make it easier to maintain the atmosphere of past centuries in the interior. Vintage lamps, chandeliers, floor and table lamps are well suited to apartments decorated in Scandinavian, loft or retro styles.
Furniture
Antique furniture can play a major role ininterior, to be the center of the composition. All the details will be built around it. Even the design of the apartment as a whole can be built on highlighting antique items, making them central. On the other hand, antique and vintage furniture can be present in the interior in small quantities, complementing it or bringing retro notes to the modern design. When purchasing such furniture, it is necessary to take into account its size. For example, a tall, massive wardrobe will look awkward in a small room. And in a room with a large area, a small cabinet can simply get lost.
Decor
As antique and vintage decorYou can choose paintings by Soviet and European artists, theatre posters, posters from the 1950s and 1960s, porcelain dishes, antique mirrors, plaster and wooden figurines, collectible dolls, and models of airplanes and cars.
Where to buy?
Summer is the time for travel, vacations and greatmood! While at the resort, you can combine business with pleasure and run through the flea markets of the city where you are staying for your vacation. Walk through antique shops, find out the addresses of the nearest flea markets. Perhaps, it is there that a new interior item with a century-old history awaits you! If you want to buy antique or vintage items in Moscow, then you should look for them in places such as the flea market at the Mark railway station (not far from the Savelovsky railway station), the flea market in the Izmailovsky Vernissage, the market of old things on Shkolnaya, the flea market near the Preobrazhensky Market, the flea market on Tishinka. Designer Lena Inashvili (design studio ART at HOME) told us about where else to find good interior items with history. Lena Inashvili, designer (design studio ART at HOME) - Is it popular today to decorate a house with antiques? — Unfortunately, interest in antiques is gradually fading today. Clients increasingly order large paintings and decorate their homes with modern things in the style of Andrew Martin – Eichholtz. — Where do you find interesting antiques? — For me personally, if we talk about antiques, the most interesting and unusual, and even Gothic, which you won’t find here, can be bought in antique shops in the old cities of Spain. Price + history = a beautiful and amazing thing. Once I bought charters signed by royal names from the era of the great Velazquez. Yes! You can buy a lot of interesting things there. Another piece of advice for those who like to shop in Europe: the best prices for historical things are only in Spain, but few people know about this. — And where should Muscovites look for antiques? — On Bolshaya Gruzinskaya Street (house 42) there is an excellent selection of not antique, but very interesting, antique-like, decorative things! I would also recommend the Russian Antique Salon in the Central House of Artists to Moscow, where there is always a huge selection of antique paintings, furniture, dishes and rare second-hand books. You can find anything there and haggle endlessly. Once I bought a pair of incredibly beautiful French candelabra, made in the early 19th century from bronze, for only $800. In my opinion, this is the best place for shopping! polinov.ru pinterest.com
