In Antique Panelled: Glazing is particularly adaptable to panelled rooms and should be used to make the paint and woodwork appear slightly dusty. As dust invariablyoccurs in panel corners and on certain portions of moldings, it is advis¬able to put a slightly darker tone in these places. In antique panelled rooms, it was customary to wash the paint in the most accessible portions of the panel fields. This caused the centers and lower portions of the panels to be slightly lighter in tone than the tops and corners. A realistic imitation of this natural condition may often be introduced to advantage, but much discretion must be used to avoid a false effect.
Other tones, however, are also used for antiquing. A smooth glaze may be applied with a large brush over a whole painted surface and then stippled. In other glazes the brush marks are intentionally left visible. The latter are known as streak glazes and they are produced by a large calcimine brush.
Plain glazes may be softened or modulated by means of a soft cloth, sponge, or cheesecloth, but care should be taken not to produce artificial effects unrelated to antique rooms. Simple, unostentatious glazes are to be recommended. It is very easy to overglaze a surface, and such an effect is always artificial, vulgar, and in bad taste. Proper antiquing is almost imperceptible.
Glazing is particularly adaptable to panelled rooms and should be used to make the paint and woodwork appear slightly dusty. As dust invariably occurs in panel corners and on certain portions of moldings, it is advisable to put a slightly darker tone in these places. In antique panelled rooms, it was customary to wash the paint in the most accessible portions of the panel fields. This caused the centers and lower portions of the panels to be slightly lighter in tone than the tops and corners. A realistic imitation of this natural condition may often be introduced to advantage, but much discretion must be used to avoid a false effect.See Also Genuine Antique Paintings:Pictures made on paper require glass for protection, as they grow dirty and cannot be cleaned. There are, however, many possible types of frame, varying according to the character of the picture. For colored reproduc¬tions of the old masters, the frames may be very similar to those that would be used for an original. As a matter of fact, reproductions of fa¬mous paintings are rarely seen today in well-decorated interiors; if one is particularly fond of a masterpiece of the'past, however, there is no law of taste which forbids that a photograph of it be hung. Decorators have encouraged their clients to buy genuine antique paintings of a decorative nature, even though these pictures may be third or fourth rate—that is, providing the client cannot afford the best. It is felt that period rooms should be hung with contemporaneous originals or at least with well-executed copies.
As a rule, oil paintings should be framed without mats or glass, al¬though today narrow borders, either painted or covered with natural-colored linen, are in vogue. Logically, modern oil paintings require simpler frames than do the old masters, although antique frames are often used on ultramodern pictures.
On The Other Hand See Colorful Antique:3. Trade and Fun Fairs The Spring Trade Fair and Autumn Trade; Fair in Utrecht are events of the very first importance in Europe. There are thousands of exhibitors and hundreds of thousands of visitors.
The Art and Antique Dealers' Fair (August/September) at the Prinsenhof in Delft, is an unusual and very colorful event held under the patronage of Prince Bernhard.
Freiburg im Breisgau: Gasthof zum Roten Bdren (Inn of the Red Bear) calls itself, fairly, I believe, the oldest inn in Germany. It's a very colorful antique, with fine food. But for wonderful food try the small but good Hotel Minerva. The cuisine of this hotel is one of the very best in Germany.
Goslar: Hotel der Achtermann, an old and famous Harz inn, has food worthy of its fame.
Hamburg: In addition to the superb restaurants of Hotel Vier Jah-reszeiten, don't fail to try the Alsterpavillon, a luxury place hanging over the edge of the Inner Alster; and for contrast, try the lively underground Ratsweinkeller.
Hannover: Cafe am Kropcke, a historic establishment with pleasant garden, in the heart of the city, is more than nationally known.
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