antiques

I hope the new year will bring to everybody health, peace, fortune and some nice small painted antiques items to enjoy!

And antique also off course

From my "barn" just some view of organized chaos.

Nice Swedish cabinet, gustavian, 18th. century, all original except the painting off course, it was washed, too bad, but it looks very nice like it is now.

What a soup must have been served in this amazing piece of china!

This serving tray has one of the most beautiful painted fruits stillife i ever seen.
Enchanting nice.

Just from the depot a blended Swefrench stillife.

What a nice trip we had!

But they sure decorate and guard this beautiful troumeau.

No words.

Yes it´s finally Copenhagen time!
Starting friday afternoon, 14.00 all week end at The Bella Center, Scandinavia biggest flee-market.

Welcome!!

I just waited to see the hair of the princess falling down curly from the window up.

A miracle of beauty, the secondary small hill way between Orvieto and Todi, Just marvelous views, castles, farmers house etc.. It s all nice.

It was darkened by varnish and smoke, now it s so shining in the sun that i have to use my sun glasses.
Nice.

Wonderful, wonderful secretary, gustavian period, from the very North of Sweden.
As heavy as beautiful!

An advantage by being antique dealer in Sweden, you buy great looking antique pieces and you can stop on the way picking up wonderful mushrooms.
Mhhh, imagine the risotto tonight!

But same wonderful feeling when three different pieces and times meet each other with their joyful colors in the same ambient.

8 beautiful genuine fresh but antiques country-side Gustavian chairs. Seldom are those chairs exactly  the same, shaped from the same hand and being painted a little bit different each and every one rise defenitely the charming level.
Eight beauties...

Don´t forget to visit the years last open place antique market. From this coming Saturday noon until Sunday afternoon do not hesitate to pass by!

P.S. i m coming too

Little Halmstad has done it again. After world biggest golf tournament for women for 2 years ago (Solheim Cup), now world biggest friendly tall ship competition, with some of the world most astonishing ships sailing around our water. Amazing for a city with a county population of 75000 person!

Been super busy with the Helsingborg Show and now few days at the beach with a beautiful Swedish summer and my beloved family.

Beautiful Nordic atmosphere could be the middle of the 18th century, it is today.

I ve seen trying to destroy fantastic mirrors many times, this is one of the worse. This charming quite big, very nice 18th. century  mirror is on his way to get decent again after 100 years of humiliation.
I m getting you back my friend!

About all the corners of the globe, from South America to Asia trough Spain, France etc..
Nice maps dated 1835 from Leipzig. Choose a country!

Seldom with numbers and this color, the photo is not enough good to explain their beauty.
Nice surpries when i started to scrape the ugly brown color over it!

Blue and kind of salmon/pink legs, scraped to the original. A nice table.

Even a non drinking person will get exited to think to a lemonade in this beautiful Empire carafe in those glasses from the same time!

20 hours a day i sleep, 3 i eat, 1 i think about what to do next.
My name is Hobbe and i feeeeel good!

At least for me, may be you will think is a mess. It s a personal way to see things, i ll accept different opinions. But i love it!

This beautiful  original blue painted measurments boxes have all the government stamps impress in their wooden sides, dates, crowns all the marks that pedantically born swedish state needed for his own eager of burocracy. Well to decrease flour fraud also i have to say.

Simply adorable, a little 18th. century chest of drawers in original painted pine.

What a great combination, green fields and grey painted gustavian chairs!

Though the wrong French landscape and quite few km. of distance from his last resort, he would have loved this Iris court. Isure did.

No word to describe this fantastic building in the sunset. It  makes you become a believer even if you are outside of it.

Glad Påsk to you all!

Probably Höganes, in gypsum, nice different models, i bought them all today, about 30 pair of splendid forms. They were used for pottery making or earthenware.
Great interior decoration.
Quantity matters!

That´s what my little 3 years old daughter said when she saw this cheese monster on the floor!
They are adorable with their true way to say things, in their own little world. She loves Parmiggiano Reggiano, but this hole form looks different that the small pieces she eats.

Anybody interested?

Even when secondary, a nice turn of the century (18/1900) grey color can be really charming. This is nice.

I have just "scraped" a tilt top table that looks like the brother of a popular table i had in the recent past.
I like very much this kind of tables, close to a nice wall they are like a standing useful sculpture.

Fantastic grill and wine night in Dalarna at wonderful friends home. This enchanted region is even more enchanted by his friendly and generous habitant. Thank you Mr. & Mrs. C. for a wonderful evening!

Actually a wave from the middle of the 18th. century, or as we call it in Sweden "the pie border".

Not so tasty but very good looking drop-leaf table.

It´s so close to springtime, usually it explode any day buy this period. Pleeeeeeeease let there be spring!!!

Fantastic sofa from Dalarna, color amazing, condition excellent. Sold, but i still think about it.

This 19th. century engraving, by Engelmann Gottfried, are taken from fresco paintings of the master Raphael.
They are excuisite similar to the 20th. century Belgian master Paul Delvaux.
So now we know Paul Delvaux!

P.S. I do love his art!

Amazing early baroque cabinet with beautiful original painting, big doors, nice inside, lists, my God is all so nice!! I long to have it ready soon

It´s like a Volvo a classic of the Swedish production, but that is all we can use to compare those items.
This one is just a little bit smoother in his forms than the 4 wheeled. Just like my little sarcasm.