Do Your Tastes In Collecting Change?

mine do, ALOT. i started with Eastlake many years ago and then on to Renaissance Revival. From there i made a complete leap to early american furniture although over the years i have gone though many phases within that group, paint decorated, shaker, colonial, federal. Lately, i find myself being drawn into southern furniture (maybe because i moved from wash. dc to charlotte nc). In particular, Charleston SC pieces which are distinctive in that the secondary wood used in its construction is often cypress whereas in virginia, north carolina, etc. its most often yellow pine. In any event my tastes in collecting have changed dramatically over the years with the only constant being my fascination in the construction details of how the furniture was made. How about the boardies here, have your tastes changed and if so, how?

my tastes also have changed over the last 25 years of collecting--I think not so much due to age, but rather, knowledge acquired of what was really out there in the victorian sphere of antiques--I also started off (probably because of the lack of the internet at the time and the availability of certain types of antiques in my geography), collecting Eastlake, Empire and turn of the century lower end oak furniture---then, I also graduated to Renaissance Revival ( still like it for bedroom furniture), then, on to my present addiction, which is American Roccoco.  I am also branching out into mid 1800's lighting, paintings, porcelain, and glassware...I wonder if Betty Ford clinic has a treatment program for this???  LOL!  Charles.

As a kid I collected baseball cards and coins, so I had the collecting bug early.  That paper route provided the funding and I eventually sold my coin collection for something like $163 and bought stereo equipment (high-end equipment for a kid).  Strange how when you're "done" with a genre of collecting, it can turn off like a switch. 

Then there was a huge gap of time in my collecting habits and it didn't kick back in for decades, until Victorian and Art Deco figural lamps hit me.  Now Art Deco figural lamps are waning for me and Art Deco bronze sculptures are kicking in.  Unfortunately the originals with bronze and ivory are mega-expensive for the good ones. Equivalent in price to some Meeks and Belter parlor sets. 

Early 20th century lighting - slags, reverse-painted, leaded shades are always being added to my collection. 

But I am officially out of room for all of the above and need to do some swapping out as new stuff gets added.