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Love the mix of simple and refined…
Timely and timeless…
World of Interiors
September 1990
Heavenly….
Both photos cropped from original photograph
by Bill Batten
Timeless
23 Wednesday Mar 2011
Posted in Interiors
Tag Archives: Rough Luxe
Under the Big Top
27 Friday Aug 2010
Posted in Shop profile
Just a few more Big Daddy’s Antiques photos…
The new San Francisco location at
1550 17th street
san francisco, ca 94107
(p) 415 621-6800
Antique circus tent…
If you need a little drama in your life…
or your living room…
I’d like to think a few of you have had the time this August to
take those easels and paints out …though I suspect some of
you are focusing more on the cement wall background
and wondering if you could pull that off in your living room…
Still have one last kid to get off to college…
All his friends are floating away like those dandelion wishes…
Soon all he will have left are his hovering, wistful parents.
Despite the fact that up here in Northern California
we had to make do with Big Daddy drama at the monthly flea…
He has already made a dent in our design world…
and we all have our favorite treasures anointing
our homes…
Time to make a bit more room…
Still goofing off a bit out here…
but couldn’t resist taking
you along for the show…
Happy Weekend!
Big Daddy’s Antiques in San Francisco
27 Friday Aug 2010
Posted in Shop profile
Shane Brown of Big Daddy’s Antiques has been selling unique finds sourced
from travels across the US, Europe and Asia, from his enormous Los Angeles
warehouse, as well as various flea markets including our incredible Northern
California Antiques By The Bay flea market in Alameda here for over 18 years.
His website here is a catalog of one of a kind curiosities, as well as trend starting
objects, and reliable favorites. And he has just done us an enormous favor in
opening up a second huge warehouse in San Francisco …
Antique doors above from Argentina…
The unfettered space is voluminous, lit from industrial windows
high atop beam girded, age-etched concrete walls…
One of a kind light fixtures and tablescape items…
like the crocodile skull to the left…
A half wall of stacked vintage book-bound newspapers…
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts...
employed here as well with stacks of French crated demi-johns
I’ve seen these made into table lamps…
or filled with collected corks…
c. 1884…a good year?
Amid all the rough industrial…
a Swedish secretary, alabaster urns with iron bouquets,
a vintage crocodile purse, an iron scrolled bed…
For the ultimate garden room….
Numerous stone vessels and urns…
importing age and permanence and weight into the garden…
Some earlier Big Daddy posts…
Setting Up Shop at the Flea Market here
Antiques By the Bay here
Big Daddy’s North
1550 17th street
san francisco, ca 94107
(p) 415 621-6800
