Apartment Therapy Tagged: collecting

Clock Collections

Clocks are generally functional and often visually appealing, making them fine specimens for collecting. Here, we gather a few examples of clocks in collections......

Tony's largest collection, cartoon character figurines Displayed throughout his home, Tony's collections are at once overwhelming and inspiring. Overwhelming, because of their size (that's the most ...

Mergers & Acquistions
SF Chronicle

The SF Chronicle ran a story this last weekend that couldn't be more apropos for Collections Month on Apartment Therapy. Several design experts from around the city (including the owner of this amazin...

Vacation Collection: World's Largest Things

Some people collect souvenir shot glasses from their travels, or tribal masks, or maybe refrigerator magnets. Our friend Rachel's vacation collection consists of photos of her and her travel companion...

What Are Your Coffee Table Books?

Coffee table books, while sometimes frowned upon by the minimalist crowd, are one of our favorite means of decorative expression in our home. We think the coffee table books one chooses to display say...

Collections: For Use or Just For Show?

For us, half the joy of having a beautiful collection is being able to use the items in your daily life... that is, until the other day when one of our favorite Fire-King mugs got a big crack down the...

Look! Old Encyclopedia Pages

A few years ago we inherited my Grandmother's old Encyclopedia set. Not needing them for reference (thanks Google) we sat down with a razor blade and extracted all the fantastic images that were bou...

Do You "Represent" In Your Space?

San Francisco Gocco Print: $15 from artsharkdesigns on Etsy. When company comes to visit, it's obvious where you live. Street, City and State. But often times that doesn't stop us from representin...

Look! Our Favorite Collection

We admit it - we're collectors. We like to think it's an inherited trait, as both our grandparents and our parents are also collectors. However, collecting doesn't need to mean clutter, and we've disc...

Look!: Colorful Collection of Golf Tees

Over the weekend we saw this large glass jar full of colorful golf tees for sale in an antique collective. It reminded us of Abbey's collection of bread bag ties... ...

Survey: Do You Have Tchotchkes?

We were intrigued by a post earlier this week -- What's Your Weirdest Tchotchke? -- mostly because we saw it while we were in the midst of happily conducting a sort of mini Cure. And we realized we d...

Chihuly's Treasure Trove
Seattle Homes & Lifestyles

Did you know that famous glass artist Dale Chihuly collects vintage designer chairs? We didn't. The Seattleite (whose work is currently on display at the de Young) says, “I really just can’t thin...

Collecting Family Hand-me-downs

We have a weakness for hand-me-downs with a history. When our grandparents did a major purge a while back, we stuffed our suitcases with their rejected silverware, throw rugs and leather driving glo...