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23-09-2008
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Mid-Atlantic USA
Gender: femme
Posts: 169
Vintage designer clothing
- Chanel - Valentino - Gianni Versace - Armani - Calvin Klein - Ralph Lauren - Gucci - Dior

Leatherbound book collection
- building a library worth passing to my son one day...

Fashion designer books
- Coco Chanel - Halston - Calvin Klein - Donna Karan - Tom Ford - Giorgio Armani - Valentino

Decor collections -
- cinnabar carved plates (some medium sized and some small) and mini boxes
- - - mixed with:
- capiz shell accessories - presentation bowl - display plates - covered boxes

- black and white marble accessories for kitchen and family room
- - Kitchen - bread board - rolling pin - cheese trays - spoon rest - utensil holders - salt & pepper mills
- - Family room - chess set, art pedestals, 'cube' design side tables, and candle plates

- seashell collection
- - most purchased - a few from scuba diving
- - - arranged on glass shelves in the living room

- Oriental antiques
- - primitive looking pieces - 2 'wedding panel' wall carvings - 2 'covered barrels'

- vintage (1950's) Murano glass pieces - very modern in design

- 'The Wall of Masks' - hung in the bedroom hallway
- - Asian - African - South American
- - also a few on pedestals in the library

- Waterford crystal - 'Lismore' pattern
- - stemware collection - balloon wine glasses, champagne flutes, old-fashioneds, double old-fashioneds
- - lamps for bedroom - bowls for the vanity

Artwork
- black and white photography in white mats with black core
- - Ansel Adams
- - Steven Meyers

- illustrations by Ty Wilson

- box framed prints by Georgia O'Keeffe

- a small collection of Henri Mattisse posters transferred onto canvas

This list might look like a lot of belongings - but I decorate in 'collections'. I've just listed most of what I own. For example, the only accessories in the kitchen and adjoining family room are marble and the rooms actually are quite sparse in decor. The artwork for the family room is the collection of Ansel Adams' black & white matted prints displayed on glass shelves.

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