An industrial arts loft on West Fulton....a witty, lifelong collector....items to delight the eye and the mind......
Cue the cast of extras and you have the perfect setting for a antiques/garage/estate sale. The sale starts this Friday, November 20 and goes through Sunday Here's an amuse-bouche of the large and varied inventory of antiques and items for sale.
For full appreciation of this sale, here's the story of how it came about.
David Carlson was an antique dealer and owner of Nook and Cranny on south Vincennes in Chicago. For years, David's business also occupied booth #63 at the Antiques on Jefferson Mall in Naperville. He was known as much for his design eye as the signs and tags he composed to merchandise the items. When the mall's building was rezoned, he was forced to move his inventory to storage.
When David died last year, his daughter, Emily, moved the contents of the seven storage lockers to her workplace loft on W. Fulton. Emily restores and designs stained glass windows in her studio, Solstice Art Source. As she says, she never planned to be an antique dealers herself, but wanted to sort through the large collection and organize it for sale. The pallettes of antiques overtake more than half of her workspace now, and she'd like it back.
Emily and assistant Mollie have been curating boxes of antiques since June, when they held their first weekend sale. Since then, dealers have been by the loft to sort through the first round of books. Some of their sales were hampered by the wet weather, but they've gotten to know the neighborhood of shoppers that have come by.
Sale Location: 2010 W. Fulton Street, Chicago
Hours: Friday to Sunday, November 20 to 22 from 8 am to 3 pm
On street parking is available. For public transportation, this is right off the corner of Damen and Fulton on the #50 Southbound bus.
Looks like quite a lot of different things for sale - and real finds! The circus poster is very cool and I'm very curious about the picture frames and their contents!