If you have a fondness to the extravagant styled furniture, do consider investing in a beautiful Victorian cast iron bench to be the centerpiece of your garden. Antique cast iron garden patio furniture is still some of the most desired furniture to date, but extremely rare to find and quite expensive for the average homeowner. Cast Iron furniture is rarely manufactured as aluminum patio furniture has become the popular choice because it still is quite durable without the high cost of iron. Each year the aluminum patio furniture becomes more appealing as designs get more streamlined. Target has come out with beautiful patio sets which have an upscale look, they would be just as nice inside the home than outside. Although the aluminum sets are quite popular, ornate benches are almost non existent, forcing many people to buy antiques. Victorian cast iron benches are the perfect choice for a rose garden, or a Romanic gazebo. Cast iron is rare in our current market which makes it very unique. In comparison to any garden furniture to date, it still remains the extremely durable and can withstand harshest conditions such as rain, snow, hail and the sun over years without showing a shred of damage. Cast iron furniture can last a lifetime and can be cleaned with the simple products you have at home compared to the plastic furniture that breaks and yellows in the sun over just several months. Antique cast iron furniture is much more valuable than today's popular aluminum furniture, partly because the material is no longer manufactured. Today's furniture manufactures tend to go for the easiest production techniques that fetch the most money. A company can make much more money producing an array of low quality -low cost materials which then can be affordable to 90% of the public than to produce something only a small percentage of the population can afford. Companies also seem to be dodging the high quality materials because genuine natural materials are becoming quite rare which then becomes costly to make a profit. Today pressed board and plastics replaces wood in many dressers, armoires and closets. From a manufacturing standpoint, it is easier to produce because it is light weight, low quality and inexpensive. The majority of the public isn't into quality, but low price. Vintage cast cast cars are still in tact while today's modern plastics have been thrown away by the thousands. If that is not enough, plastic will never disintegrate, as it sits in the earths land fills for generations. (Read More.....)
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  John Derian is a professional decoupage artist who also happens to be collector of 18th and 19th century paper printed antique documents and letters. His specialty and passion are maps, trade cards, and handwritten letters. "I seemed to be drawn to the 19th century. There are so many beautiful lithographs (from that era), so I started collecting them." It all started for him 16 years ago when he found himself drawn to vintage cards and almanacs. Derian started enlarging parts of handwritten letters from the 1800s for a collage experiment, and it was at that point when his career first took off. His technique known as reverse decoupage is where he applies his carefully cut photocopied 19th century nature illustrations onto the backs of clear glass plates. He recently told the Denver Post that when he was 20, he was enrolled in college, but found himself more drawn to antique hunting, so he skipped school and went after his passions full time. (John Derian Photographed By Ryan Benyi) |
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