Category Archives: Engagement Rings

A Happy (Royal) Couple

By Toronto Antiques on King | Published: August 10, 2011
Who says only royalty can enjoy a royal life? Katherine and Darren have a romance story that rivals that of the Duke and Dutchess of Cambridge. First, the couple enjoyed high tea at Dalvay by the Sea, the resort where Prince William and Kate Middleton stayed on their recent trip to PEI. After their the [...]
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A Vintage Wedding

By Toronto Antiques on King | Published: June 28, 2011
Do you ever wonder how to use your favorite vintage items? Check out how Mango Studios used items from the Cynthia Findlay collection  in their vintage wedding shoot. Mango Studios borrowed the antique lockets, the brass and glass heart shaped box and the brass elk antlers (which is the base to an inkwell). The photography [...]
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Proposal in a Canoe

By Toronto Antiques on King | Published: June 25, 2011
Monet called, he wants his garden back. This is a perfect spring proposal to kick off a summer of love. Gary loved telling us about his beautiful girlfriend’s perfect hands. We needed to find these perfect hands a perfect promise ring. We did. Gary proposed in a canoe on  a stunning river, and the perfect [...]
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Art Deco: A Lesson

By Toronto Antiques on King | Published: June 7, 2011
Only in retrospect was art deco design called “art deco.” When the founders of the art deco movement, The Society of the Decorator Artists, met in Paris in 1925, they called their new design “moderne.” Modern art is a much more fitting name for the art deco movement, which tried to aesthetically represent the technological [...]
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Modern Fairy Tale

By Toronto Antiques on King | Published: May 27, 2011
I wasn’t in the store when Kate and Kyle first came to shop. I was at an early-morning social media marketing workshop. After a morning of discussing SEO and ROI, I wearily walked into Toronto Antiques on King, latte in hand, and I quickly noticed that I had walked into a modern, real-life fairy tale. [...]
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