Yearly Archives: 2012

Chatelaine Borrows Egg Cups

By Toronto Antiques on King | Published: April 5, 2012
This won’t come as a shock, but we love re-purposing antiques for modern uses. Old biscuit barrels? Great toilet paper holders! An old table celery server? Why not use it for bread sticks? This is why when, Julia, a stylist for Chatelaine, asked to borrow napkin holders to use as egg cups, we were very […]
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Spring Sale!

By Toronto Antiques on King | Published: April 3, 2012
To the best clients in the world. April 1st marked the third anniversary since Toronto Antiques on King and the Cynthia Findlay Collection moved into our newest location. We love our new location, but we are always reminded that buildings don’t make businesses, clients, do. Thank you for being the best customers in the world! […]
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Memorial Hair Jewellery

By Toronto Antiques on King | Published: March 28, 2012
“Hair is at once the most delicate and lasting of our materials, and survives us, like love. It is so light, so gentle, so escaping from the idea of death, that with a lock of hair belonging to a child or friend, we may almost look up to heaven and compare notes with the angelic […]
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Style at Home Borrows from Toronto Antiques on King

By Toronto Antiques on King | Published: March 16, 2012
Fashion week is happening across the street from Toronto Antiques on King, which makes us feel, by osmosis, that we are watching trends as they happen. However, we don’t need to see the goings-on across the street to know that vintage is trending. Antiques are in! Interior decorators have always loved mixing old with new […]
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Our Oscar Jewellery

By Toronto Antiques on King | Published: February 24, 2012
Like the rest of the audience at the Oscars, the attention of the Toronto Antiques on King staff will be directed forty percent at the awards and sixty percent the wardrobe of our favorite stars. Specifically, we will be ogling the historically spectacular jewellery. To prepare for this year’s Oscars, we have pulled some of […]
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