NicNat Chat!: Shopping

Thursday, May 3, 2012

MOOD INDIGO

An all-new range of collecting…

Fiesta in light green

When I first arrived in America 35 years ago I already was an avid collector. I always had a passion for dishes and was already collecting Limoge, Sevres and some 60’s Villeroy & Bosch, when suddenly I was faced with an explosion of colors and patterns with names like Fiesta, Harlequin and Riviera.

This display cabinet full of Fiestaware look like my cupboard

Fiesta in Orange

At the time the 26^th St. flea market was a good source, so were the thrift store. But when researching a specific piece I will go to Mood Indigo in Soho. After 25 years there, 5 years ago they relocated at the Showplace Antique and Design Center.

FireKing

Stangl

Russel Wright

Eva Zeisel

There you will be able to complete or start your collection with pieces of Fiestaware, Russel Wright and Eva Zeisel. If you feel like a “Mad Men” character you will have a huge choice of bar accessories as well as objects from famous NY nightspots as the Stork Club.

One of my favorite things in the store is the extensive grouping of the Lady Head Vases and the novelty Salt and Peppershakers.

You will also find an extensive collection of New York World Fair memorabilia’s...

And deco Bakelite Jewelry.

I highly recommend a visit and when there, tell them you did find the store on NicNatChat.

http://www.moodindigonewyork.com/index.htm

http://nyshowplace.com/home/1_0_menu=9.aspx

A bientôt,

Pierre Candra

for NicNat Chat!

Sunday, April 1, 2012

ESTATE JEWELS by George & Raf

My friend Allyson has the best taste in costume jewelry, with a motto, "the bolder the better", a girl after my own heart. When I asked her where and whom was the source of such treasures, she told me about Estate Jewel by George & Raf in Fort Green Brooklyn.

I had to go see for myself.

Enter through a garden (work still in progress), peek through the window and enter a world of wonder. More then a store it’s a salon and here are your hosts George and Raf. Sip a glass of wine and start selecting from a collection of costume jewelry that span nearly 150 years of American and European design.

With name like YSL, Napier, Trifari, KJL, Dior, Pierre Cardin you have a lot to choose from and at every price points.

One of the four mirrors.

Check yourself in one of the four mirrors equipped with different lighting, be it an intimate candle diner, a red carpet event or a brightly lit party, your host will be here to help and style you.

Vitrines full of treasures

And when you think you have found the perfect piece, out of the corner of your eyes you will see an other one you can’t live without, and before you know it you will have had the most wonderful time.

Rhinestones galore...

Snake jewelry are always in fashion.

An original paper label who say "Designed in Paris, made in America"

And what should you be on the lookout for next ? George predicts tassels on earrings and long 20’s necklaces, 50’s plastic jewelries for the summer, collars necklaces and the comeback of cameos.