Solid brass or brass-plated? It's one of the most common questions in vintage collecting. Here are the simple tests you can do on the spot to tell the difference, and why it matters for how a piece ages in your home.
That pearlescent, light-catching shimmer on vintage ceramics has a name: lusterware. Here's everything you need to know about it, how to spot the real thing, and how to style it beautifully at home.
If you've ever picked up a piece at a thrift store, turned it over in your hands, and thought I don't know what this is but I absolutely need it — there's a good chance it was postmodern. Bold geometry, unexpected colours, a kind of playful seriousness that somehow works. Postmodern décor is having a major moment right now, and once you know what to look for, you'll start spotting it everywhere. So what actually is postmodern décor? Postmodern design emerged in the late 1970s and really hit its stride through the 1980s and into the early 1990s. It was a direct reaction against the sleekness of modernism, the "less is more" crowd, and its whole energy was basically: what...
