Sowa Antiques Market Boston Reception Friday evening

So much is happening down in Sowa this weekend, we can't stand it, it's all so fantastic!~

Please join us this Friday evening, December 12th, for light refreshments and nibbles at the Sowa Antiques & Vintage Holiday Market.

460 C Harrison Avenue/Thayer Street
The building runs from Albany St to Harrison Ave.
(free parking at our front door at the Albany St. end of the building)

Reception Friday evening.
Market is open:
Friday: 4pm-9pm, Saturday: 10-5 and Sunday 11-4

Mike Valvo and Stephanie Pernice, designers at Design Dolce, styled a photoshoot today with unique items available at the Sowa Antiques market at vintagesteph's booth.

We started with a vintage locker basket, added our gifts, tied with a bow...beautiful, easy, retro and cool.

Lots of locker baskets while supplies last. Endless gift possibilities...including re-purposing the basket for organizing the stuff of life.

Check out these sites for info on events around the hip arts & media neighborhood of the South End South of Washington St. known as SoWa.

www.sowaantiques.com
www.sowasundays.com
www.southendopenmarket.com
www.designdolce.blogspot.com
johnwarrendesigns.blogspot.com

Sowa Antiques Market Boston Opens tonight

Please join us!

Our pop up shop at the Sowa Antiques & Vintage Holiday Marketplace in Boston
opens this evening. 4pm-9pm. Sat & Sun hours as well for the next 3 weekends.
Part of Winter lights in the South End, this is going to be a beautiful show.

www.sowaantiques.com

460C Harrison Ave.
Free parking at the Albany St. end of the building

Brick building which houses Mohr & McPhearson and other fine galleries (across from Bobby's of Boston). The building runs between Harrison and Albany St...if you get off 93, take Albany St. exit.
Very easy!

design dolce on vandm.com launches tomorrow!

design dolce launches tomorrow on vandm.com!

check vandm.com and see our on-line inventory as design dolce.
This is Stephanie's on-line store with our colleague and friend, Michael Valvo.

design dolce on vandm.com!

Favorite things coming and going

Steph scored this 50's retro funk orange wrought iron bar cart earlier this season.
Displayed in our on-line store on vandm.com (we launch tomorrow as design dolce on the site) our fave Salterini style bar cart is on its way to Maryland to have a charmed life serving drinks and cocktails on a gentleman's patio.

Love the detail, love the color, love the scale of this piece.


We'll be in Putnam, CT this coming Saturday, November 28 from 10-3pm at 18 Kennedy Drive, Riverview Pavillion, Putnam CT for an art and artisinal works show.

Sowaantiques.com....Sowa Antiques & Vintage Holiday Marketplace coming in December...
we'll have a pop up shop in at the Sowa Antiques Marketplace Friday evenings, Saturday and Sunday. Check the sowaantiques.com website for times, address & map and access to free parking! yay! This runs in conjunction with Sowa Winter Lights and is going to be a wonderful shop & stroll charming holiday event. Come find us and see our goodies for you to enjoy, use to entertain, and to give this holiday season.

As always, thank you for your support of our small business.

Join vintagesteph on facebook....

vintagesteph now has a facebook page!
Our name is: vintagesteph fab finds.
Friend request us!

We are at the Shelton's field at Brimfield next week.
Check out the cool photos on our facebook page...
Way fun stuff, as always, more cost effective than retail!
(even off-price retail).

SOWA this Sunday, 540 Harrison Ave, Boston 10-4

vintagesteph show dates:

SOWA this Sunday
August 30, 10am-4pm.
540 Harrison Ave, Boston, Ma.
sowaantiquesmarket.com.


Brimfield Antiques Show
Shelton's field
Tuesday September 8-Sunday September 13

SOWA most Sundays through the end of October.
(We will squeeze in a trip to NYC...stay tuned).

Enjoy the pics!

New Cabinets for under the Brooklyn Bridge tomorrow....

Happy 4th of July everyone~
We're under the Brooklyn Bridge tomorrow.
Yay!~
Can't wait to be in New York!
We've collected GREAT STUFF
all over New England to share with you.

A couple of John's latest cabinets you can see in person July 5, 2009
at the Brooklyn Bridge Flea.
brooklynflea.com.

More May Brimfield at Shelton's Field

Brimfield is a boatload of work and fun.
We decided to elongate our efforts and stay in town
all week...that's right, we're at Brimfield Tuesday-Sunday (oh my!).
At Shelton's.
The main road down Shelton's is right across the street from J&J (our old show on Friday/Saturday).

Find us at Shelton's!
Come into Brimfield on Mass. Route 20,
see the Mahogany Ridge yellow and white striped tents, Shelton's is the 2nd driveway past those tents. (same side).
You can park at the Church in the town center as your home base (old school Brimfield).
We even ate at Francesco's in May...again with the old school Brimfield.
Enjoy the pics!

Sunday in Brooklyn:
Brooklyn Flea under the Brooklyn Bridge, NY
This Sunday July 5th 10am-6pm.
brooklynflea.com

May Brimfield on Shelton's Field

The view from the top of John's cabinet: our neighbor's abstract painting, flowers from
Steph's May garden, an industrial objet.
Quelle melange!

We'll sprinkle in a few more May Brimfield pics at Shelton's soon...

We love hiding things in suitcases...

We all have to conquer our clutter. Check out flylady.net for inspirations and motivations. One way I adopt the fly lady way is finding stylish and cool storage solutions for stashing the stuff I do need to hold onto.

Enter a stack of carefully found and cleverly organized vintage suitcases. John keeps his photo collections in old suitcases. I store design magazines, bits of fabric or notions and other ingredients for stuff we want to make later, kid's artwork, my artwork, and other fun stuff. You can arrange these as end tables, coffee tables, stacked as stylish portable "armoires"...the list goes on!

This is the latest stack of leather trimmed valises from hunting in NH the last few days.
We found this adorable and wonderfully painted pink bookcase. Perfect for stashing anything.
We drove by many barns and cows and "kissed alot of frogs" but we found some cool stuff this week.

Come see our finds this Sunday, June 28, 10am-4pm, South End Open Market, 540 Harrison Ave, Boston, Ma. (Free parking! Where else can you get free parking in Boston???)

John Makes Harvest Tables

Did you know John can build pretty much anything?

Presenting one of his Harvest/Farm Tables.
He builds them sized and finished to your specifications.
Changing the legs and the finish changes the look of the table to mix with any style (painted wood, unpainted but hand rubbed wax finish, shaker legs, farmhouse legs, euro finial country legs, etc).

This table is on display at Marmalade/Curly Girl Design located at 695 Belmont St, Belmont, Ma.
John can build one for you....please email inquiries to steph@vintagesteph.com.

Cool People & stuff in our NY world last Sunday

New York Pics

Our booth set up under the Bridge Sunday.

Other New York pics

Brooklyn Bridge Flea Debut~ NY Weekend~

We love going to New York~ this weekend we had the distinct honor of selling our collection du jour at the new pop up market under the Brooklyn Bridge on Sunday.

We will be back at this market:
July 5 and 25-26
(at least...we'll add more dates).

Check out John's latest cabinet that now lives in Dumbo overlooking the Manhattan skyline.
(nice to be that cabinet!)
And other fun photos from under the Bridge.

we have always relied on the coolness of metal....

some objets we send along as found.
some we re-work into something cool.

haiku:
we love the charm and
patina and low carbon
footprint of vintage.

email inquiries to: steph@vintagesteph.com

John's latest creation~Wire Mod Furniture~ Cool and Comfy

Fab mid century mod wire furniture in the style of Bertoia....so cool so comfortable.
Love the mid century homemade plank coffee table with its artsy and mod wire legs. Already painted white, fantastic!

John's headed to Ft. Greene today with this fab wire collection, along with other industrial mod and chic stuff along with this cabinet he made from reclaimed elements. Painted red with milk paint...and a smooth as silk hand rubbed wax finish.

Check us out tomorrow at the South End Open Market, 540 Harrison Ave, Boston, Ma.
We have a different load of cool finds....and some newly restored floral textiles from the 40s and 50s to brighten up your space.

Inquiries please call 617-921-4773
email: steph@vintagesteph.com

Mid Century White Mantel $200

This mantel needs to find a home...for a real fireplace or faux, mantels add excellent architectural interest and are way fun to decorate! $200

We're jumping in today with our blog....

Welcome to our blog.
We are, John and Stephanie, artists individually and collectively. Check out our site www.vintagesteph.com for more background.

We travel New England and New York extensively and put together collections of cool funky items to create an aesthetic and functional curated look. On our blog, we will post current items we have for sale.

Check out these custom cabinets John's been making from vintage elements, reclaimed lumber, and architectural antiques....he can build an original cabinet custom sized for your home.

Please email steph@vintagesteph.com for item availability, requests and to purchase.

Our inventory is one of a kind, so email today!
We now accept MC/VISA for purchases over $50.

Thanks for checking us out! Visit often "new" inventory arrives daily!