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<p>[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 4568449, member: 55"]Exactly. And the difficulty in finding details is not what one encounters when searching for actual artists, or actual antiques; for those, one finds online references; collectors guidebooks; collectors clubs.</p><p> But this is precisely what one finds when researching a modern decor item. There are no collector's guides for the items found in the import shops; and usually, no online catalogs from the manufacturers.</p><p>And as AJ relates, it is entirely possible that shops in France or Italy or Serbia now sell, or recently sold, these items (and for me, 80s would count as recent). Nice-looking, well-done; but not ivory, and not old.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 4568449, member: 55"]Exactly. And the difficulty in finding details is not what one encounters when searching for actual artists, or actual antiques; for those, one finds online references; collectors guidebooks; collectors clubs. But this is precisely what one finds when researching a modern decor item. There are no collector's guides for the items found in the import shops; and usually, no online catalogs from the manufacturers. And as AJ relates, it is entirely possible that shops in France or Italy or Serbia now sell, or recently sold, these items (and for me, 80s would count as recent). Nice-looking, well-done; but not ivory, and not old.[/QUOTE]
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