Antiques Fair at Nelson Mandela Square

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Antiques Fair at Nelson Mandela Square

CELEBRATING COLLECTING RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY Antiques Fair at Nelson Mandela Square Sunday 7th April – 10am to 4pm With several important religious holidays scheduled for April, including Easter for Christians, Pesach for the Jewish faith, Ram Navami and Hanuman Jayanti for the Hindi faith and Lailat Al’Miraj and Lailat Al’Bara’a for the Muslim faith, the Antique […]

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Local Is Lekker – Collecting South African Antiques

South Africa, with its English, Dutch, French and German heritage, has a wealth of antiques and collectables that have been handed down from generation to generation and have become highly sought after by collectors. – From the local craftsmen who created local furniture that could be easily transported during the ‘great trek’, – To the

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Art Nouveau Furniture By Louis Majorelle (1859-1926)

In the mid to late1800’s luxurious Neo-Classical and Neo-Rococo furniture pieces were all the rage. In the town of Nancy, a young man called Louis-Jean-Sylvestre Majorelle (1859 – 1926) inherited his father’s furniture workshop copying old style furniture and pastiches of Louis XV furniture styles, which he exhibited in 1894 at the Exposition d’Art Décoratif

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