Divine Antiques

09/18/2022

Really interesting Smithsonian Magazine article about history, fashion and antique shoes.

An exhibition at Toronto's Bata Shoe Museum examines fashion's role in supporting social hierarchies that emerged during the landmark intellectual movement

07/09/2022

We thoroughly enjoyed reading this Smithsonian Magazine article about an interesting eccentric historical women. Check it out.

Everything Was Fake but Her Wealth

Ida Wood, who lived for decades as a recluse in a New York City hotel, would have taken her secrets to the grave—if here sister hadn't gotten there first

06/21/2019

We are in the process of changing our website to a completely new platform. Stay tuned!

07/28/2017

Latest Divine Antiques web site arrival ~ Antique Metallic Lace, Silk & Ribbonwork Passementerie Flowers Bo***ir, Lingerie, Night Dress Case / Pillow, Edwardian - 1920s

http://divineantiques.com/van1a1.html

07/15/2017

Recent Divine Antiques website arrival: Miniature Midget Set 4 Leather Cased Books, Burgess & Bowes LTD London, England, Mid 20th Century, Foreign Language Translation Dictionaries + Extras

http://divineantiques.com/coll1a.html

07/08/2017

Check out this small photographic exhibit featured by the Oregon Historical Society titled ~ Mirror On The Modern Woman: Selected Images From The Oregon Journal 1927 - 1933.
Each photograph includes a written narrative describing the person and scene. We found it very interesting to see what the Oregon Journal Newspaper considered newsworthy back in the day, and we also enjoyed seeing the period clothing, furnishings and architecture in the images.

http://www.ohs.org/museum/exhibits/mirror-on-the-modern-woman.cfm

The 1920s heralded the era of the Modern Woman, a more adventurous and independent type open to new possibilities. The new exhibit Mirror on the Modern Woman depicts some of these Modern Women, young and old, at work and at play. The exhibit features fifteen photographs from the 1920s and ’30s selec...

07/05/2017

Recent Divine Antiques website addition - Heavy Diminutive Antique Brass Footed Casket, Domed Box, Doll Treasure Chest Trunk

http://divineantiques.com/ant2i.html

07/05/2017

Only a few more days to check out this event at the historic Pittock Mansion in Portland, Oregon - A Golden Age of Poster Design: Magazine Posters From the 1890s. Runs through July 9th, 2017.

http://pittockmansion.org/events/a-golden-age-of-poster-design-magazine-posters-from-the-1890s/

06/10/2017

We enjoyed viewing this slideshow of antique / vintage Fortuny textiles and clothing and thought perhaps some of our friends might, as well. The original exhibit was presented several years ago at The Queen Sofia Spanish Institute of New York. Sure wish we could have attended, but the slideshow is quite interesting.

http://spanishinstitute.org/exhibitions-programming/exhibitions/fortuny-y-madrazo-an-artistic-legacy?currency=upcoming

11/14/2015

Antique painting of 42 cats, c. 1891, titled My Wife's Lovers, recently sold for $826,000. Reportedly the world's largest cat painting it measures six feet by eight and a half feet. San Francisco millionairess Kate Birdsall Johnson commissioned Austrian artist Carl Kahler to paint some of her 300+ felines. Kahler sketched the cats for apx. three years before starting the painting.

http://www.sothebys.com/en/news-video/slideshows/2015/10-days-10-stories-1-billion.html?cmp=email_selects_selects_1billion_button1_111315-111315 /2015.10-days-10-stories-1-billion/3

11/12/2015

Here is a link to a recent Vintage Fashion Guild Newsletter we thought you might enjoy checking out:

http://vintagefashionguild.wildapricot.org/Resources/Documents/VFG%20September%202015%20Newsletter.pdf

09/09/2015

Recent Divine Antiques listing ~ Large Antique Handkerchiefs, Finely Woven Lustrous Translucent Silk, Beautiful Hand Embroidered Monograms:

http://divineantiques.com/vinhan1f.html