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Shopping Trip: Jill Goldberg’s Brimfield 10

You might remember that I visited Brimfield back in May, tracking interior designer and Hudson store owner Jill Goldberg. I can finally share Jill’s top ten picks! The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine piece, “Antiques Roadtrip,” was published last Sunday in anticipation of this week’s show, which runs September 8th to 13th. I’m going back on Thursday and will source more vendors for you and take tons of pics. Can’t wait!

A-1 Salvage Quaker Acres, Booth 137 These architectural salvage specialists sell random pieces you might need to fix up an old house, including intricate moldings and pressed-tin panels. Jill likes to use this sort of stuff as decorative accessories. I liked the old type boxes

Antique Paper Memorabilia Quaker Acres, Booth L 4-5 Tons of really fun advertising posters, packaging, and labels, including uncut sheets of Monopoly money and popcorn boxes that have yet to be assembled. (Great for a movie-themed birthday party.) Jill snapped up several sailboat prints with a breezy, summertime feel. “We found similar ones here last year,” she says. “A designer purchased them before I could get them up on the wall.

Hindukush Quaker Acres This was my favorite booth, and coincidentally, the first one at which I stopped. I picked up old wood blocks used to print batik (ink included), and my friend purchased a great looking necklace. He also had baskets and rugs, all from Southeast Asia. Jill picked up a whole stack of these copper vessels, which did really well at her store. She says, “They make great vases, or pencil holders on a side table.”

Lansdowne Street Baseball Antiques Quaker Acres, Booth 104 I’m hardly sporty, but I was drawn to the lustrous patinas of the antique baseball bats and gloves here. Some of them date back to the Civil War.

Magoun Bros. Faxons Midway, Booths 8-9, 22-23, 35-36, 48-49, 61-62 Goldberg adores A huge array of backwoods accessories from Maine that includes canoes, snowshoes, oars, baskets. Jill LOVES their old signs. “At one point, my husband had to say ‘Enough,’ but they always sell.” Perfect in lofts and summer houses.

Industrial Age Antiques The Meadows, Booth 168 He’s got really interesting pieces from old factories and mills, and knows the stories behind them. Goldberg loved these mirrored-glass bottles, and bought a bunch. Other treasures included glass containers from a science-lab supply company and cast-iron parts salvaged from old machines.

One Stop Antiques The Meadows, Booth 179-186 Rows of light fixtures hang overhead and tables are piled with hooks, hardware, door knobs, and the like, useful to anyone refurbishing a period home.

Paper Tiger The Meadows, Booth 205-206 A must-stop for any magazine lover (that’d b me!) Noel Buscemi’s booth is chock-full of historical photos, vintage postcards, antique maps, and old periodicals. Jill sources images here for her line of decoupage plates.

Judy Chenille Central Park, Booth 100 Proprietor and seamstress Judy Greason, is all about chenille; even wrote a book on the stuff. She sells immaculate chenille bedspreads and other estate linens. She repairs and recycles her finds, creating pillows from spreads she is unable to restore. She couldn’t help but brag that the Martha Stewart gang often stops by.

Quality Pennants Central Park, Booth 57 Pretty much every alma mater seems to be represented in this perfectly preserved collection of felt pennants and pins. “I would use these in a kid’s room,” says Jill, “or even a funky powder room with a Ralph Lauren vibe.”

Design Diary: Quaint on the Cape

Like many summer destinations, there’s a large rental market n the Outer Cape. You might pour over website photos all winter long, but unless you really know the area, and have been inside the house, you simply don’t know what you’ll end up with. As my son’s preschool teacher said, “You get what you get and you don’t get upset.” Our friends lucked out with this cottage. It’s very private, nestled in a thicket of trees. It is utterly charming, inside and out, with well-worn but comfortable Americana antique furnishings and and cozy outdoor garden. (The Cape doesn’t do posh.) I should have taken more photographs, but here’s what I captured:

Shopping Trip: The Wellfleet Flea Market

In addition to its hidden ponds, fried food, and quaint art galleries, Wellfleet has the only drive-in movie theater on the Cape, and it comes complete with mini golf and a sandy playground (think John Travolta doing “Stranded at the Drive In” in Grease). By day, this tarred over hot spot hosts a flea market, where one can find anything from used paper backs and tube socks (not used) to beautifully crafted turquoise jewelry (my mother-in-law is addicted). Up in the front, below the big screen, is where the antique dealers set up. The day I went I picked up three milk glass vases (just $1 each for the bud vases and $2 for a really pretty scalloped edge large one). The boys had a blast, scoring mini flashlights and Star Wars trading cards. They may have even enjoyed it more than the nighttime adventure to see Ice Age 3 (I know I did). I stopped by the market on a weekday afternoon too, and was tempted by a pull-down map for ten bucks, but seriously, where would I put it? Here’s a look at what else was for sale during my visits.

ARTmonday: Mary Ellen Strom

Two years ago at the School of Museum of Fine Art’s annual holiday sale (now called Inside Out), my husband and I were mesmerized by a video installation by Mary Ellen Strom (the first one pictured below). It was a little pricey (after all, you’re buying actual video equipment), but we seriously considered the purchase. Strom, who teaches at the SMFA, is represented by one of my favorite galleries in Boston, the Judi Rotenberg Gallery.Strom’s work has been shown at MOCA, MOMA, and the ICA, as well as the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum.

The three images below were part of Strom’s 2005 solo show “The Nudes”, at the Judi Rotenberg Gallery, comprised of a series of video projections re-staging paintings of female nudes by well-known male artists, including Manet, Velasquez and Magritte. Strom’s installations feature contemporary women artists who are portrayed as subjects rather than objects. The videos are staged with live models in meticulously produced settings, and videotaped with a high definition video camera. The nudes were installed as a series of individual video projections onto the gallery walls. The projections are the size of the original paintings.

Strom says of these works, “We can identify with the subjects and feel power and sexuality not passivity. We can be conscious of our act of viewing while allowing ourselves to experience pleasure, theirs and ours.”

Nude No. 4, Andrea Hendrickson — 58″ x 48″, video projection, 2004