If you’ve spent a moment fretting about what is and isn’t vintage or have been aghast to see items in major retail stores labeled as vintage, you’ll want to listen to a new podcast. Eric Miller discusses vintage and authenticity with Massachusetts dealer Jane Hudson, North Shore Flea promoter Melissa Sands and Jon Jenkins of Jenkins Promotions. You can listen to the podcast here.
Eric Miller is a web publisher, writer and show promoter.
Eric is the co-producer and promoter of the Dallas Vintage Clothing and Jewelry Show, 20th Century Vintage, the Texas Art Collector Show and Sale, Vintage Garage Chicago and other events. He also helped launch Antiques in Charlottesville in 2010.
Eric's public relations work has resulted in placements in the Boston Globe, Maine Antiques Digest, Antiques and the Arts, Antique Trader, the New York Post and elsewhere. His articles have appeared in publications including San Francisco Downtown, InPittsburgh and The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
Eric has interviewed notable architects, filmmakers and politicians including Steven Holl, Julian Schnabel and Congressman Walter Jones.
Eric has a Graduate Certificate in Public Relations from NYU, a Masters in Urban Studies from the University of Akron and is author of a chapter on Ayn Rand’s life in New York in the book Literary Trips: Following in the Footsteps of Fame.
Vintage in textiles is very subjective. Having a vintage, is,like saying saying textiles have a patina.
Buyer and seller need to be on the same page. Age and condition terminology need to be established, and this is the dealer’s responsibility.
I consider “antique” over 100 years. “Vintage” is 1910s-1950s. I use the term “retro” for the 1960s and 1970s. And contemporary for the 1980s to present.
New, old looking items, could be referred to as “vintage style”. I just gave a lecture to a group on how to tell the difference between antique, vintage, and new.
I am really tired of everything on eBay being characterized as “vintage”…I’m 40 years old, and these items are newer than me…and I am not vintage!
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If you’ve spent a moment fretting about what is and isn’t vintage or have been aghast to see items in major retail stores labeled as vintage, you’ll want to listen to a new podcast. Eric Miller discusses vintage and authenticity with Massachusetts dealer Jane Hudson, North Shore Flea promoter Melissa Sands and Jon Jenkins of Jenkins Promotions. You can listen to the podcast here.
Vintage in textiles is very subjective. Having a vintage, is,like saying saying textiles have a patina.
Buyer and seller need to be on the same page. Age and condition terminology need to be established, and this is the dealer’s responsibility.
I consider “antique” over 100 years. “Vintage” is 1910s-1950s. I use the term “retro” for the 1960s and 1970s. And contemporary for the 1980s to present.
New, old looking items, could be referred to as “vintage style”. I just gave a lecture to a group on how to tell the difference between antique, vintage, and new.
I am really tired of everything on eBay being characterized as “vintage”…I’m 40 years old, and these items are newer than me…and I am not vintage!