Thursday Art Date: Antique

Antique! What a fun theme with so many options and directions to go for Rain's Thursday Art Date. I was inspired by the secretary's desk of Rain grandfather and the lovely catalogue page of chairs for sale. So I went online and did a search for antique chairs. This one immediately caught my eye. Isn't this piece of furniture cool? A table and if you open it, it's a chair with a table. On the sales page I found it, it's described as a "Metamorphic Combination Table, Desk and Chair"  from the 19th century.

I love furniture, that is versatile, has little secrets and that little something, that makes it special (althought that table is way out of my price range *LOL*). In my next life I might become a carpenter and simply built these things myself.

For now this quick sketch in my sketchbook has to be enough.

Another piece, I made back in my beading days, came to my mind reading the word antique. The challenge was to made a piece inspired by antique mosaics. When I think of mosaics, I often have the beautiful mosaics in mind, that embellish Islamic architecture like for example the Madrasa Ben Youssef  or the Saadian Tombs in Marrakech (photo credits: Coconut Sports and Wikipedia). Some of them date back to the 14th century.

I made this bead embroidered cuff back in 2010 with glass beads, glass cabochons, a Czech glass button and a semiprecious gemstone.