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Marshfield, Massachusetts, photographer Mike Sleeper displayed his images of the sea and
shore of Massachusetts. Many are misty, some as still as a minute. He works in film only
(no further manipulations). His
Old Town Guide Model
is an archival pigment photograph
of his family’s 1961 Old Town canoe. Framed, 25" x 52", it was priced at $3200; unframed,
13" x 40", it was $2600. Over the years the canoe has been recanvased three times, and a
photograph exists of five-year-old Sleeper, his family, and the family dog in the canoe.
Mixed-media works by Wendy Shapiro of Boston, displayed in her booth.
Repurposing at its best—Village
Braider Antiques showed a
garden ornament constructed
entirely of antique and vintage
faucet handles, all painted a
cinnabar color, with a few spots
of other colors peeking through.
It was priced at $1100.
Bruce Emond of Village Braider Antiques, Plymouth, Massachusetts, writes up a sale.
Boston designer Charles Spada has always mixed antiques in the interiors that he
designs. His companies are Charles Spada Interiors and Charles Spada Antiques.
Spada’s botanical studies were $1150 each, and the pair of 19th-century Chinese
chairs was priced at $3500.
Tony Fusco and Bob Four of Fusco & Four produce three art and
antiques shows in Boston each year, along with masterminding the
annual spring Boston Design Week, which celebrates and heightens
recognition of the role of design in the lives of Bostonians. Last year’s
event drew over 11,000 visitors.
Knollwood Antiques, Thorndike, Massachusetts, and New York City, showed a Spanish
refectory table from the 1850s with a three-board top and hand-wrought iron stretchers,
tagged $3450. A 19th-century Zuber wallpaper panel, 42" x 46", with Moghul design
elements and complex layers of color was priced at $950. The pair of mid-19th-century
French candlestands, 43" high, mounted as table lamps, was tagged $895. The Chinese
archaic form bowl with a patinated bronze finish was filled with gaming balls. It was
tagged $495 and bore a sold tag. Proprietor Richard A. LaVigné does consistently well
at Fusco and Four shows, and the November show was no exception.