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Produced in conjunction with BBC2's exciting new series airing on Wednesdays at 8.30pm, Cracking Antiques shows you how vintage and antique furniture and accessories can help you to create a stylish, individual home without setting foot inside a superstore.
Take antiques off their pedestal and forget their elitist image. You don't need to live in an old house to enjoy antiques and vintage and, if you choose wisely, you don't need a huge bank balance either!
Comprehensive and easy-to-follow text explains what to look for when buying antiques and secondhand treasures, and how to renovate them using anything from a little TLC to a complete makeover.
Special features and 'tips of the trade' give expert interior design ideas and show why antiques that might be out of fashion today may make great investments for the future. To round off this invaluable guide, a resources section tells you all you need to know about buying at antiques fairs, antiques shops, at auction and online.
Cracking Antiques demonstrates, using simple steps and inspirational images, exactly how to add style and glamor to your home by buying secondhand, vintage and antique furnishings. Turn your back on bland, mass-produced flat-pack furniture and remember that secondhand needn't be second best.
Cracking Antiques
by Mark Hill & Kathryn Rayward
Published: April 7th 2010
Hardback, 224 pages
ISBN: 978 1845335564
Price: WAS £18.99 - NOW £11.39 & P&P
Meet the presenters & authors...
Mark Hill was a specialist at Bonhams and Sotheby's before joining an internet company where he became a director, running its exclusive alliance with eBay Live Auctions. He is now the resident 20th-century design and collectibles specialist at Miller's, and the author and publisher of a series of books on 20th-century design. Mark is an expert on the BBC’s 'Antiques Roadshow', lectures widely, and writes for magazines including Collect It! and BBC Homes & Antiques. A collecting addict, he lives in London surrounded by pieces collected from as nearby as Preston and as far away as Peru. Find out more about Mark and read his blog by clicking here.
Kathryn Rayward trained as a theatre designer and has been designing theatrical schemes for her clients' homes ever since. Her television career was kicked off ten years ago when her 13th century farmhouse renovation was featured in Channel 4's 'Grand Designs'. Since then, she has written articles on craft and design, run a successful interior design business, and made numerous TV shows for the BBC and ITV. Whilst living in France, she found her life's passion: a love of all things vintage. Driving her rusty Ford Transit van, she scours the brocantes and vide greniers for treasures, taking unloved pieces of furniture and transforming them into one-off couture pieces of contemporary design using vintage fabric and traditional craft techniques.
