On the wall, on the shelf
European antiques, furnishings, and decorative art
All around the shop, you'll find a rotating selection of old world antique furniture, fine art, and decorative housewares. This collection gives the shop its distinctive feel but all pieces can be yours for the right price.
On the wall, on the shelf
European antiques and art.
Vintage glassware, framed prints, paintings by local artists, as well as decorative pieces from kitchens and farms are waiting to add character to your home or office.
From Tuscany, by hand
Italian terra cotta and pottery.
A small, considered selection of Tuscan terra cotta and ceramic pieces, brought in directly. Olive oil cruets, serving platters, the occasional rustic vase. Most pieces are one of a kind, or close to it.
On our walls
Jeannette Steele Esposito.
Jeannette Steele Esposito paints from Ipswich, Massachusetts and a summer home in Round Pond, Maine, where much of her work finds its inspiration. Painting, she says, is all about color and form: harmony and balance, the vibration of one color reacting to another, like music.
She trained for six years in the fine arts department at Kent State University under Douglas Unger, in a teaching line that runs back through Henry Hensche to Charles Hawthorne. An award-winning member of the Rockport and Newburyport Art Associations, she has shown in one-person and juried exhibitions throughout New England. Her canvases hang in the shop now, signed and worth looking at slowly.
Ogunquit, remembered
George Robert Carpenter, 1928 to 2006.
Boston born and self taught, George Carpenter moved to Maine in 1963 and opened his own gallery in Perkins Cove, joining the long line of painters drawn to Ogunquit. He became an internationally recognized plein air artist and an award-winning impressionist in oils and watercolors, with work that reached Brunswick Mills in Maine, Mills College in Oakland, and the private collection of Senator Edward Kennedy.
His subject was New England, and above all the Maine coast, its light and its fog. Friends remember his mantra: you have to go to your subject matter, it is not going to come to you. He was at his easel outside his studio when his life ended in 2006, at seventy seven.