ExclusiveTreasures | Australian Art & Antiques Fair 2024 #Antiques #History #Stories

Taking a glimpse into people's museum of antiques and collectibles, I learned how an object isn't merely a thing you can see or touch, but a treasure that holds a tale, a memory of history. What makes an item special is the value it brings to us through appreciation and preserving its fragments of forgotten craftsmanship and symbolism. Coming to this antiques fair, I learned that artists and craftsmen make a point in leaving a piece of themselves, a story or legacy to the future generations by showcasing their abilities through traditional creative works such as paintings, sculptures, books, accessories, commentary, and visual beauty. And those who take note of their worth and value their work are the ones who keep the legacies alive. After the war were suffragettes, but they didn't want to be known as suffragettes because they had the brooch made in the suffragette colors. So that links the suffragettes, Victorian nursing, and Australian gold work in one object in a box for under $500. From Elba, they rallied the troops and went back to Paris and restarted the war against the British. You would not get anybody to make that under $5,000 today. And how much is the grand total? 900. So each one of those enameled in silver. From visiting this space, I've met a lot of like-minded people with similar goals. A goal in preserving the beauty of tradition. So what you really said there touched on the traditional values as well. So it's like how you're bringing back the core of what you do and then you expand on that as a creator. Yeah, well it's about people, isn't it, at the end of the day. And we're creating beautiful, working with beautiful products and beautiful furnishings and fabrics and textiles and things like that. But it all comes back to people. And keeping the legacy alive. That's right. Thank you so much. Vincent, an interior designer based in Melbourne, brought together the accents of the past by merging the decor that defined the eras to our modern presence. For him, he works mainly with traditional clients who own period and traditional homes. His style weaves the old and the new through contemporary palettes or modern shapes with antiques and traditional tapestry. He believes that the foundation of his business is integrity, relationship and friendship, then follows design. And from my conversation with him, I realized that being a creator or a designer, it isn't really about ourselves. It's not my art or my idea. The understanding is that the skills and abilities we are blessed with are the very attributes and qualities we share and get inspired from to those close to us and far from us. In exchange with people who share the same passion, thus leaving a touch of magic in people's hearts and memories. And this is what makes a treasure in this particular time, place and story.