The specialist guide to Asian antiques and exotic home decor from the far east.

Muebles Orientales. Aragón en Abierto (2/05/2007)

La tienda que se ubica en la calle Laguna de Rins, importa muebles de Pekín.
http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=9cpmo4Ggffs
(Youtube)

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 Chinese horse hair calligraphy brushes seem to be a hot seller recently. Actually, they have been doing well for quite some time now. We get quite a number of requests for them, particularly from smaller shops, boutiques and designers. They make great accessory items which fit with a range of decorating styles – and depending [...]

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A while back, ACF’s Roger Schwendeman was featured on CCTV (China Central Television) Channel 4’s program Culture Express. CCTV 4 is broadcast throughout China, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and worldwide via satellite.
CCTV’s team accompanied Roger for several days during buying trips of un-restored Chinese antiques, and then onward to oversee the next steps [...]

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There are some good youtube posting on porcelain and ceramics, starting out with this interesting eight minute long academic video overview of the history of Asian ceramics put out by the “Minneapolis Institute of Arts.“
“Ceramic production in Asia dates back many thousands of years. The Chinese have always been regarded as the undisputed masters of [...]

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Found some more relevant videos on YouTube about learning Mandarin Chinese speaking and writing.
Learn Chinese Symbols for Furniture : Introduction to Chinese Symbols for Furniture
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=tZY5kKUUqbA]

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There is a great show on on BTV (Beijing TV) called “Collection” which I happened to stumble upon late one evening while flipping though the Chinese channels. Normally I avoid the Chinese channels like the plague since about 90% of the time they are eiter a) boring b) lame c) boring and d) lame and [...]

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Last week we went to an exhibition of new classic Chinese furniture. There were not only factories of furniture, but also those selling frightening robot-like CNC machines… It made me wonder if hand labor is even in threat of becoming abundant even here, even in this workmanship, even in art …

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If you have never been to the Panjiayuan weekend market, you are really missing out. Genuine antiques? Not really (Well maybe one or two) But cool stuff? Definately!
It you are a wholesaler or professional in the industry, you know this is a horrible place to do business. On the spot cash payments and [...]

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This is yet another interesting youtube find, and this particular one deals with the making of Tang dynasty style tri-colored glazed pottery figurines. Its actually quite good – showing you the entire process from rolling out the initial clay to the sculpting of the figurine.

Here is a snippet from their youtube posting:
Tang Tri-color ware was [...]

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Another great youtube find… This one shows a vendor that clearly specializes in screens & panels . Not sure if this was shot during a buying trip or if the person was simply on holiday. Its still quite interesting though…  Based on the surroundings, it looks like it was shot a few years ago as [...]

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We don’t normally deal in extremely high-end pieces but nevertheless this video I stumpled upon on youtube is quite interesting if you want to see real Chinese porcelains. It seems this was taken at Southerbys
If the embedded version does not work, then try this direct link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0hK34uG_yA

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Another youtube find, apparently from someone (Tricia Wang) shopping in the various “antique” markets (notice the quotes) here in Beijing. Highly doubt there are many antiques to be found here but still… its a lot of fun and a great cultural experience. Love the music overlay….

If the embeded version does not play, try this direct [...]

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