Lana Samuels & Marty Fox did a fantastic job. Also due to photographers not permitted to do their work, my great friend and exceptional photographer Russell Winnell supplied photographs he had previously taken for me.
Aprox ten days on the market and SOLD!
Professional service to ourselves and the purchasers closed the deal!
Sadly the buyers already have a lot of their own pieces so won’t purchase the furniture, art and lighting, that ever so graciously dressed our home over the past 20 years.
As my showroom and store rooms packed, I’ve decided to sell mostly online. Between Instagram & my website allpressinc.
I’ll post many special pieces over the next few days.
ALLPRESS ANTIQUES @ MELBOURNE – THE PAST FOUNDING THE FUTURE
‘Antiques are timeless classics that look wonderful in contemporary settings’*
Gaining and enjoying a sensitivity to a timeless design aesthetic has been part of the passionate life journey of New Zealand born Melbourne based antiques dealer Jamie Allpress. It began when he was only 11 years of age, working after school in an antique shop in the beautiful surroundings at Dunedin in New Zealand. It is also where he first learned the skill of maintaining original finishes, hand graining, colouring and wax finishing as he embraced the concepts of conservation and restoration of fine furniture.
A recent window display we did for Brunschwig & Fils in High Street Armadale, Victoria Australia.
It is a prominent company that designs and manufactures contemporary and historically inspired decorative fabrics, wall coverings, trimmings, upholstered furniture, lamps, tables, mirrors and accessories.
July 2010
Comprising of an unusually small 17th Century English Oak low dresser with an Italian Satyr figure to the right with a Flemish ebonized mirror behind, flanked by two 19th Century Chinese Water Colours on rice paper to each side.
I sub-let the shop next door to Milton Wine Bar and keep part of the garage for displays.
‘Brownlow Interior Design’ dressed this months room.
However, will stay as over the Christmas and New Year period.
Barbara and Alexandra Brownlow did a fantastic job, bringing the space to life with my furniture, Imari and art, adding their signature parrots, French Louis Style settee, Colefax and Fowler curtains, brass floor lamp, Chinese blue & white umbrella stands, Bragg & Co jungle green lamps and Behruz Studios pure wool flat weave rug.
Jamie Allpress of Allpress Antiques in Melbourne specializes in antique dressers.
He mostly sells them without their shelving units, because that’s what most people want.
“A ‘marriage’ should always be pointed out. i.e. where two pieces of the similar period and style have been put together to produce a more salable item”.
Jamie Allpress from Allpress Antiques at Malvern in Melbourne, who specializes in smart English and French city and country style pieces that look simply amazing in many different settings, agrees.
He is a young man with his own children and they are growing up fast, learning to value the past in order to fashion the future.
In Defence of Clutter – Australian Period Home Style Article
Written by Henry Buckenham (Allpress Inc).
Apologies for your misspelt surname in the Article Henry!
Excerpt: We live in a world where clarity, sterility and purpose are the defining features of interior design. Forensic suits and cotton booties have replaced the tradition of shoes off at the door. Clutter has become an ugly word, but when did an appreciation of things become an offence against principles of design?
