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Hi, I’m Darryl Carter. I’m here at Red Schoolhouse Antiques. Shopping, one of my
favorite past times. And oh, look what I’ve stumbled upon. Not my favorite in its current
incarnation, obviously. A little too much pattern, a little too much color. But these
are the types of things you should really be aware of when you’re shopping because
they’re not always beautiful in their present state but they can really morph into something
extraordinary. What I love about this form is that it will
serve multiple purposes. It could be a small coffee table in its next life, or it could
be an ottoman or it could be both. Delicate legs, probably in need of a little bit of
reinforcement. But I’m thinking that this is something that could be turned around in
the matter of a weekend if you were willing and ambitious.
This is the sort of thing that they’re now trying to reproduce as new, this deformity.
And you just can’t replicate this kind of a finish. And with layers of paint, it’s
just going to have that much more credibility and look like something has been painted over
and over rather than something that was freshly painted, made to look old but that’s new.
This is an example of why I often discourage the use of vibrant color and pattern. Things
of this sort date if not at some point, immediately. I’ve been in some hotels of late and I was
just like, let’s go back, rings in a tree, and see where AD this happened in life. And
these things were relatively newly done. And they were dated.
So sometimes it’s better just to stick with the classics. And the analogy I always use
is the blue blazer and the black dress. These things, they stay forward in the closet. Always
things that you impulsively purchase that are kind of hippy, moody, whatever you might
have been going through at that moment in time. You’re never going to wear that again.
And in your house, a little less forgiving to have to look at it all the time. At least
in the closet you can stick it in the back. So here we go. So this gives us some sense
of how this was done and how recently it was done. I wouldn’t imagine that this would
have accompanied this. Here we go. There’s what I’m looking for right there. That’s
what I want. So if we can somehow – sometimes when I get down to the horsehair or the burlap,
if it’s in decent condition because it’s been protected by this pretty embellishment
here, sometimes it’s in good shape. And it may be that we don’t even need to re-upholster
this. I mean look at that. Instant sense of wear and gravity.
So you’ll recall this is the original burlap that was underneath the former textile. The
piece was gilt, rather poorly executed. Kind of playful in a way. We cut some of the gelding
just to give it some interest, but now it’s suitable to go to a number of places. And
the great thing about this stool is the height because it can be used as a coffee table or
something other than that. Additional seating, it could be secondarily placed around the
room or something. [End of Audio]