Gentlemen's Quarters

In the March issue of GQ - for "Wake Up Your Bedroom," a special section dedicated to tips for updating the gentleman's interior, prop stylist Noemi Bonazzi for Brydges Mackinney pulled masculine looking ceramics from The End of History to help spice up the space.

Photo credit: Ditte Isager

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Ancient History

We step again into our time machine with these antique glass objects that can be categorized as "Grand Tour Souvenirs". This prized pair of Amphora are ancient Roman style glass housed in reproduction bronze Pompeii stands with lion's heads & claw details.  This type of keepsake would have been sold to wealthy travelers in Italy during the 19th century. The glass has a beautiful opalescent sheen and almost iridescent quality to the green coloration.
12" tall & sold only as a pair

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The Sound of The End of History

For the retro-enthusiast and audiophile alike...here's another way to immerse oneself in The End of History shopping experience - all from the comfort of your own home. Enjoy an eclectic mix of vintage music from Bossa Nova to Disco as well as a generous serving of contemporary musical stylings. Stephen describes it as...
"The sound of a cocktail party in the ballroom of the Brazilian space station, circa 2058". A great sampling of the kind of sounds we tend to play every day in our shop:
https://soundcloud.com/user3848319

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Delicious Nautilus

Our time travel through the world of decorative arts brings us back to 1883 and the Victorians newly found hunger for all things Japanese. After the 1854 trade treaty, Japan's wonders were made available in vast numbers for the first time to the west. Extravagant displays of decorative arts at all the major worlds fairs of the 19th century resulted in Japan having great influence in western art. A great example can be found here from the venerable English firm of Royal Worcester Porcelain (founded in 1751). A pair of delicate and surrealistic renderings of Nautilus shells held by coral branches on a glittering seabed.
7" each

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Big Bang

Monumental museum quality pottery from the masterful hand of Arne Bang, circa 1940. A form that embodies the aesthetic transition from Art Deco to Machine Age. An impressive scale at 14" in diameter and 4" in height. Expand the photo to closer inspect the speckled glaze technique that lends his work a desirable depth of texture by mimicking the patina of aged bronze.

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Time for The New York Times

 

Rebecca Flint Marx has written a wonderful profile of our shop entitled "Obsessions in Color, Form and Glass", for today's Sunday New York Times. The image above is of a satisfied customer who happened to be in the shop while Marx and photographer Elizabeth D. Herman were covering our store for the article. The result is a terrific overview of our history, our design philosophy, and a testament to the indie spirit our store has been fortunate enough to maintain for going on 16 years in the same West Village location - in an era and city now dominated my multi-national brands. For more (plus a slideshow) see link below:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/nyregion/at-the-end-of-history-obsessions-in-color-and-glass.html

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Fine Pharoah

King Tut as realized in 1959 by the famed Italian ceramicist Urbano Zaccaganini. It has purposefully aged quality to the crazing and glazing...as if it were actually dug up after thousands of years. Interesting side note: Our shop's proprietor Stephen has a real family connection to the original discovery. Stephen's maternal grandmother was actually present in Egypt when Tutankhamun's tomb was excavated and she even knew Howard Carter. How's that for a little bit of history repeating?

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