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I like my entranceway to be cool, spare and uncluttered... and a teaser for the rest of my place, design-wise.

I think a mirror, some sort of bench and a great lamp (suspension or table) are always good ideas in an entrance/ exit space... so good that there's all three amongst the finds (-- but $17,000 for those is borderline obscene and rather silly...)

Every souvenir shop in Thailand has statues similar to that one. It's the old saga -- you pay top $$ for a vintage piece and everyone assumes it's a cheap knock-off.

This "entryway" would cost more than the contents of my entire house! Gorgeous though.

That is a lot of money for that little dresser. I just bought the exact same one on eBay for a fraction of that.

Nice compilation, but there's definitely no need to spend enormous money to create that foyer.

Somehow scavenging doesn't seem quite the right verb when you're talking thousands of dollars. Lovely inspiration though.

Browsing at those prices requires its own term. I nominate achatage, because surely $8,500 lamps can only be discussed in French. (But there's probably some wittier way to say this in English.)

Scavenging is when you then duplicate the look from flea markets, Target, street finds, and souvenir shops.

Oy. Just enjoy the pretty pictures, and be inspired by them folks.

A beautiful compilation, Janel. Don't let the tightwads rain on your lovely parade.

And I would say "curating" is perhaps the appropriate alternative to "scavenging" here, as it more suitably honors Janel's work and fine eye.

My point, p(too), was that Janel's lovely eye-candy is inspiration for scavenging but deserves its own lovely word to distinguish it from scavenging.

That hardly merits tossing around terms like "tightwad." It's great that your budget extends to these prices, but mine does not, and I suspect I'm not the only poster of which this is true.

Hi all - thanks for the feedback on the title (and for the compliments!)

I've been using the Scavenger term since it is the AT standard for when we pull items from an online source (craigs, ebay, etsy), but will discuss revising it for these posts.

At any rate, whatever the title, I look forward to putting together these Wednesday Antique posts all week - it is like a fantasy shopping trip for me, where price is no object (something that just doesn't happen in real life) and it's all about "the look" - hope you all can enjoy them in that same spirit!

I like Wende's new term "achatage." I have a feeling it's going to catch on.

Yes, an Achatage feature would be great!

Love the ensemble, Janel. In fact, I used to own one of those lamps, back in the days when you could still pick up cool stuff at Goodwill for a few bucks, and before Tommi Parzinger was a household name.

Of course, back then I'd never heard of him either, but I could spot great design--& a great buy--when I saw it. My lamp even had the same grass-over-foil shade. I'm sorry to say I think I sold it for $20 when I cleared the decks before I moved to Chicago.

wende--

I did not say I could afford anything here (or not...) I just get tired of the automatic stock response of "I could get that same thing off of Craiglist for $1.75."

And just cuz the *commenters* might not be able to afford, doesn't mean some *readers* can't...

And I love that these pieces come with some built-in education about designers like Spectre and Parzinger.

But your right wende, "tightwad" was perhaps a tad brusque.

How do you say "tightwad" in French?

oops, "you're"

It's got nothing to do with being a tightwad -- it's about not being stupid with money, while some antiques dealer laughs to the bank!