Category Archives: Estate Jewellery

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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Getting Ready for Valentines Day

By Toronto Antiques on King | Published: February 11, 2011
We love Valentines day. It brings bright red hearts to dreary February nights, rich chocolates to cold afternoons and spring-time flowers to the middle of winter. Valentines day celebrates all kinds of love, not just romantic. It is a holiday that makes us remind all those around us that we love them. That said, it [...]
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Mia Kirshner Visits Toronto Antiques on King: And a Story About January’s Birthstone

By Toronto Antiques on King | Published: January 4, 2011
Mia Kirshner came into Toronto Antiques on King before Christmas (our hearts have not yet returned to a normal pulse). In addition to being a classic beauty, Kirshner is modest, understated and unassuming. She seemed full of wonderful paradoxes that only made us like her more—In spite of her endorsement from Maxim and many other [...]
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Kate Middleton, Princess Diana and You

By Toronto Antiques on King | Published: December 14, 2010
A new generation of Royalty got hitched with an old generation engagement ring. However, Princess Diana’s ring is anything but ‘dated’ on Kate Middleton’s finger. That sapphire and diamond engagement ring has a timeless beauty fit for a princess and future queen. Since there is a little bit of queen in all of us, the [...]
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Turquoise: The December Birthstone, a Success Story

By Toronto Antiques on King | Published: November 24, 2010
In 1870 Tiffany & Co. pontificated, If cold December gave you birth The month of snow and ice and mirth Place on your hand a turquoise blue; Success will bless whate’er you do. In 1870 Tiffany & Co. was making and selling beautiful pieces of jewellery. Now, in 2010, Toronto Antiques on King specializes in [...]
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