Antique dealers on the internet: Strange ducks or precursors?

(ANTWERP, BELGIUM) David Norden is one of the few that masters it.
Unlike the traditional antique dealers he gets most of his business online. He is the owner of six sites. He knows what he is speaking about when it is about online antiques.

by Rob Michiels March 2007 updated November 2007



Didn't the rise of the Internet make the Leggere il seguito...

INTERVIEW DE Mr GEORGES FRANCK, MARCHAND D’ART A PARIS


-Avez-vous toujours travaillé dans le marché de l’art ? Depuis combien de temps êtes-vous marchand ?

J’ai toujours travaillé dans le marché de l’Art. Après des études de sciences économiques et une école de commerce appliquée au marché de l’Art, j’ai intégré une galerie spécialisée dans les dessins anciens dont je Leggere il seguito...

Interview of M Georges Franck, art dealer in Paris


-Have you always worked in the art business? For how long have you been a dealer?

I have always worked in the art business. After some economics studies and an art market related business school, I worked in a gallery specialized in antique drawings of which I than became the director. I left the gallery for two years to focus on the 18th Leggere il seguito...

Virtually an Art Market? Artfully Living a Second Life
by Hrag Vartanian

Now that the Internet is ubiquitous and many of us prefer email, instant messaging and online chat rooms to live conversation, it was only a matter of time before our cultural pursuits followed us online as well. Now, a “virtual world” known as Second Life (www.secondlife.com), is offering a venue for the art world to Leggere il seguito...

La marqueterie est une technique de l'ébénisterie qui consiste à découper différents matériaux: bois précieux, métal, stratifié, nacre, écaille, os, pierres précieuses afin de réaliser un décor sur la surface d'un meuble ou autres surfaces. Les pièces découpées selon un tracé rectiligne ou curviligne à l'aide de scies à chantourner (scies sauteuses fixes) ou d'un chevalet à Leggere il seguito...

Si intende per intarsio ligneo o xilotarsia l'applicazione su di un supporto, con finalità decorative o figurative, di tessere o di lamine di legno variamente sagomate.
La tecnica più antica, di derivazione orientale, è quella “alla certosina” cosiddetta in quanto praticata dai benedettini di S. Bruno. Essa consiste nella sagomatura in forme geometriche di minute tessere di legni diversi, Leggere il seguito...

There has been a broad cultural or societal shift to engaging in online transactions, reflecting a greater familiarity with and trust in the online environment. With this shift comes expanding avenues for the purchase and sale of all commodities. However, even as recently as a few years ago, it was generally felt that the internet would not be an appropriate medium for the sale of fine art and Leggere il seguito...

by Audrey Raymond

Decoupage ("arte povera", or "Lacca Contraffatta") has a long and fascinating history that can be traced back to a variety of styles from many distant countries. Over the centuries it boasts many famous practitioners including Marie Antoinette, Madame de Pompadour, Lord Byron, Beau Brummel and more recently, Matisse and Picasso.

As far back as the 12th century, Chinese Leggere il seguito...

Parallèlement à la proposition de loi qu’ils ont déposée, dans la perspective de la transposition de la directive « services », pour adapter la loi n° 2000-642 du 10 juillet 2000 portant réglementation des ventes volontaires de meubles aux enchères publiques, les auteurs de la présente initiative ont voulu la compléter par un volet économique afin de favoriser la relance du marché Leggere il seguito...

Littéralement, la datation est l'attribution d'une date. Ce terme peut donc s’appliquer à un évènement passé, un objet, un document, un fossile, une couche géologique ou encore un niveau archéologique. Il désigne globalement la démarche, scientifique ou non, qui consiste à déterminer l’intervalle de temps séparant l’élément daté du temps présent. On parle de « datation Leggere il seguito...