Category Archives: Jewellery

Georgian Jewellery: A History

By Toronto Antiques on King | Published: June 21, 2011
Ever since that last Art Deco post I’ve been dying to write more about the history of jewellery, starting with the Georgian period. Georgian refers to jewellery made between 1714 to 1839 in England. Jewellery made during this time but outside of England is often also called Georgian because of the aesthetic similarities. We have [...]
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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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Royal Wedding

By Toronto Antiques on King | Published: April 26, 2011
What news network will you be watching on April 28th? (ahem, the day of the Royal Wedding). Are you throwing an early-morning breakfast with vegemite on toast? Will you dress up? Whatever you’re doing, we can only assume that you will be wearing a faux Kate Middleton ring to celebrate the occasion. That is Darrin’s, [...]
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Make Earth Hour Last All Year by Buying Vintage

By Toronto Antiques on King | Published: March 25, 2011
On March 26th (tomorrow) millions of people around the world will turn off all their electricity between 8:30 and 9:30 to observe earth hour. For those of us who live in cities, downtown will feel like a super-hopeful Gotham city. This year earth hour organizers are asking us to go, “beyond the hour, [and] after [...]
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