What's New at Cupboards & Roses
Friday, April 25, 2008
The Berkshire Visitors Bureau is celebrating its 70th anniversary by showcasing 70 of our top cultural and recreational attractions at the Berkshires Summer Expo on Tuesday, April 29, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Crowne Plaza, Pittsfield.
Edith will be there to tell everyone about the wonderful collection of antiques dealers and art galleries that have made the Berkshires home.
Summer is a great time to visit our part of the world. The weather is fine, the hills are beautiful, and there’s lots to do. Take in some music while picnicking on the lawn at Tanglewood. See some of the best dance in America at Jacob’s Pillow. Catch a play at the Berkshire Theatre Festival.
And of course, come to see one of the best collections of Swedish painted furniture this side of the Atlantic. We look forward to meeting you.
Friday, April 4, 2008
 Recently we were contacted by one of our favorite clients. She and her family had outgrown their much loved home and were moving to roomier digs in the same community. The only problem was that they were leaving behind a very special fireplace surrounded by 17th century Dutch blue and white tiles. Could we possibly help her find the same tiles for her new, much larger fireplace?
These tiles are not easy to find, and certainly not in the number required for this installation – almost 10 dozen! We contacted our sources in Sweden, and someone knew someone who met someone at an auction…. Before we knew it, we had an email from a German gentleman who has a specialty tile business with his mother, selling both new and antique tiles. He was able to find enough Dutch figural tiles to recreate our client’s beloved fireplace – and even sent a photo of how they would look when arranged!
Our client is thrilled, and we are pleased that we could help.
Oh, and we now have a source for antique tile stoves!
 Friday, March 28, 2008
Our next shipment has left Copenhagen and is due to arrive in New York on April 7. We’ve found some great bonads, four wonderful carved Swedish horses, and some great paint decorated Austrian armoires and chests of drawers. Please let us know if you would like us to send you a preview.
Here’s one of the armoires that we particularly like.
 Monday, January 14, 2008
Our new shipment is in the store and on our web site! Our new items include lots of chairs, including a great set of four in carved oak. Be sure to check out the Rococo cabinet with pull-out work surface!
 Friday, December 7, 2007
This winter, Cupboards & Roses Antiques will observe the following hours:
Open: Thursday through Monday, 10:00 to 5:00
Closed: Tuesday and Wednesday.
Of course, you can always reach us by email or by leaving a voice message. We check our messages and reply every day.
Monday, November 5, 2007
 We are proud to have one of our bonads featured on the cover of this month’s Berkshire HomeStyle magazine. In keeping with the festive season that begins in November, the editors have chosen a pair of musicians from a wedding bonad.
You can find the Berkshire HomeStyle at locations throughout the Berkshires and nearby New York, or check it out online by clicking here .
In the same issue, there is a feature article about the Swedish style which focuses on the home of one of our favorite clients. Click here to read the article and see some of her lovely rooms.
 Friday, November 2, 2007
Our new shipment is in the store! We have three new Mora clocks, some beautiful servers and chests of drawers, and a great new rococo cabinet. For those of you who can’t make the trip to Sheffield, we are posting some of the new items each day. Stop by often for some virtual browsing.
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Our Summer Shipment has finally arrived after more than two weeks in the hands of US Customs! We are posting the pieces here on our web site as quickly as we can, but if you are looking for something special, don’t hesitate to contact us.
 We love our new paint decorated Mora clock and our new chatol , a writing desk with integral clock . We also have new horses, lots of chairs and benches, and several rococo tables. Stop in for a look. We’re here from 10 to 5, every day except Tuesdays.
Monday, July 16, 2007
21st Century Art Meets 18th Century Painted Furniture
 Colorful illuminated globes that function as lighting created by artist Yura Adams will be on display at Cupboards & Roses Antiques in Sheffield during the month of August. Constructed of cast paper and resin, the large round forms will fill the open space above the 18th and 19th century painted furniture in a provoking mix of contemporary and historical design.
The imagery on the globes is figurative and depicts human faces, animals, and other contemporary cultural symbols that have been created with painting, drawings, digital images, and photographs applied directly to the surface. The result is a collage of light, color, and form in each unique piece which, as a group, creates a distinctive installation. The show will also include globes inspired by the beautiful hand-painting on the furniture in the shop and created specifically for the show.
About the Artist
Yura Adams hold a BFA and MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, has shown her work as a painter and intermedia artist throughout the United States, and is represented in both corporate and private collections. She is a recipient of two NEA grants and has most recently shown her work at the John Davis Gallery in Hudson, NY, which represents her. She has taught art at IS183 in West Stockbridge, MA, Columbia Greene Community College in Hudson, NY, and RISD in Providence, Rhode Island.
Opening and Exhibition Hours
The public is invited to view the works at Cupboards & Roses during store hours and to meet the artist at the opening on Saturday, July 28th from 4 until 7 pm. Cupboards & Roses is located at 296 South Main Street, Route 7, Sheffield, MA. Store hours are 10 until 5, every day except Tuesdays.
For more information, visit www.cupboardsandroses.com or contact Cupboards & Roses Antiques at (413) 229-3070.
 Friday, May 4, 2007
Our Spring Shipment has arrived and is now in the store, and we are posting the pieces here on our web site as quickly as we can. We are especially excited about the five new Mora and Swedish clocks. We also have a great painted iron shop sign for a Scandinavian café and several black Gustavian chests of drawers. Stop in for a look. We’re here from 10 to 5, every day except Tuesdays.
Saturday, December 16, 2006
 Our new shipment has arrived in the store, just in time for holiday shopping. We’ve begun adding our new pieces to the web site and should be finished with this process by Monday evening.
In keeping with this dark time of year, we have a new Swedish chandelier and several unusual pairs of candlesticks. Our new Danish horse and our Spanish colonial mannequin would look great in any holiday setting. We’ve also found two new bonads, a wonderful old Swedish secretary, and a couple of cupboards with original painted decoration.
We hope you will have a chance to visit us here in the Berkshires, but if that’s not convenient, we invite you to enjoy browsing here.
Friday, December 15, 2006
Cupboards & Roses Antiques will observe the following holiday hours:
| Christmas Eve |
10 to 4; |
| Christmas Day |
Closed; |
| New Year’s Eve |
10 to 4; |
| New Year’s Day |
Noon to 5. |
For the convenience of our holiday visitors, we will be open on Tuesday, December 27, from 10 to 5.
We wish you warmth, good company, and joyful surprises for this special time, and of course, a happy and prosperous new year.
 Friday, October 27, 2006
Once again we are honored to be included in Cottage Living Magazine’s list of “100 Best Shop Picks for 2006.” Check out the entire issue online at www.cottageliving.com , or better yet, find a copy at your local newsstand.
Thursday, October 5, 2006
Columbus Day Weekend is here, and it looks like the weather here will be co-operating. The sky is blue, the air is crisp, and the leaves are looking more colorful every day.
Just as a reminder, Cupboards & Roses Antiques will be open 10 to 5 every day all weekend, including Monday. This just might be a perfect time to visit us!
 Friday, September 29, 2006
Fall is here, and the leaves in the Berkshires are starting to change. The swamp maples are already wearing their deep maroon colors, but it will be several weeks before the sugar maples turn to gold. Keep up with the changes and plan your “leaf-peeping” trip with the help of the Leaf Chief at the Berkshire Visitors Bureau by clicking here .
Please be sure to stop in to see us when you’re in the area!
Thursday, August 31, 2006
 The Berkshire County (Massachusetts) Antiques and Art Dealers Association , of which we are a member, was featured in the Summer 2006 issue of Passport Magazine. The article profiles several member shops (including us) and provides a good sense of the offerings in our area. You can read it here.
Passport Magazine is published four times a year by the Litchfield County Times and focuses on area around the Connecticut-Massachusetts-New York border. It’s available free throughout the area or by paid subscription. We recommend it.
 Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Our newest shipment has arrived and will be added to the web site over the next few days. We’ve found three wonderful clocks, one build into a chatol, or writing desk. The one pictured is 18th century, given as a birth gift, then painted in honor of the girl’s wedding 17 years later. We also have two great center tables, a settee and three sets of chairs, and a writing desk in white paint. And for the first time in a while, we’ve located a German painted armoire with its original swiveling clothes pegs. Please stop by the store to take a look or, of course, visit us here.
Friday, August 25, 2006
 We are honored to have been featured in “The Thrill of the Hunt,” a survey of antiques and antiquing in the Berkshires published in Berkshire Living home+garden magazine. Author Gladys Montgomery says, “Sheffield may have more antiques stores per capita than any other town in New England. Savvy antiquers also know that the Berkshires are a hub for antiquing in a wider geographic region….You’ll find more antiquing in the Berkshires than you ever bargained for!” You can read the article here.
You can request a copy of the premiere issue of this annual supplement to our favorite read at www.BerkshireLivingMag.com . While you’re there, we recommend a subscription. Since its first issue in December, 2004, it has showcased the cultural events, natural beauty, and eclectic personalities of our area. Saturday, August 5, 2006
The 58th Annual Sheffield Antiques Show is coming up! This Berkshire County tradition – and the longest continuously running show in Massachusetts - will be held this year on August 11, 12, and 13 in the Mt. Everett Regional High School on Berkshire School Road, here in Sheffield. Admission is $6, and proceeds benefit the Old Parish Church. There is wheelchair access, and this year the show is air conditioned. While Cupboards & Roses is not exhibiting, we’re just around the corner on Route 7. We hope you will stop in to see us after you’ve been to the show.
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
 Our new shipment has been released by Customs and is here in the store. We’ll be adding the new items to this site over the next few days.
This is one of the two horses we received, a black painted Danish prancer from about 1850. He joins our stable of Scandinavian carved horses which you can view here.
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Here in the Berkshires, our spell of cold, wet weather has ended, and we’re looking forward to a warm and sunny Memorial Day weekend. Just as a reminder, Cupboards & Roses Antiques will be open 10 to 5 every day all weekend, including Monday. This just might be a perfect time to visit us!
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
 Our new shipment arrived at the end of April and much of it has been sold. Our next shipment will leave Scandinavia on Friday, May 26th, and should be in the store by June 20th. We’ll be receiving three early Swedish commodes, a pair of night stands, a wonderful early clock, a library, lots of chairs, as well as this charming 19th century tray table with a faience top.
 Thursday, April 13, 2006
Our next shipment has left Copenhagen and is due to arrive in New York on April 24. We’ve found three bonads, three tall case and one wall clock, several pairs of candelabra and sconces, as well as chairs, benches and case pieces. Here’s a 19th century gilded French mirror that we particularly like.
Monday, April 3, 2006
“Indies” come to the Berkshires with the first BERKSHIRE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, May 12-14, in Great Barrington, MA.
BIFF will showcase not only the latest in independent feature, documentary, short, and family films, but also lively panel discussions and special events focusing on filmmakers and talented artists from both sides of the camera.
For more information, take a look at www.biffma.com.
Friday, March 24, 2006
We’ve added a toll-free number to make it even easier for our U.S. friends to contact us about our antiques. If you have questions about any of the pieces featured on our web site, please call us at 1-800-290-5762.
If you should get our answering machine, be sure to leave your name and phone number. We will call you back as soon as we get your message.
Friday, February 3, 2006
We’ve just received a small shipment of Swedish pieces and will be posting them on our web site over the next week. We are most excited about a pair of Swedish candle mirrors from the mid-nineteenth century. They have a wonderful presence, with the original silver gilt surface and eagles at the top.
 We’ve also received a large bonad that hung in the gable end of a Swedish house. It was painted by Abraham Clemetsson who worked with his father in the Allbo- Kinnevalds school, painting mural-like wall hangings. We especially like his depiction of exotic animals which he had never seen in the flesh.
 Monday, January 30, 2006
Country style comes straight to the city in the February issue of Vogue Magazine . The “Index Checklist” (pages 263-264) includes two of our favorite pieces, a blue bride’s box with painted tulips and a wonderful Swedish side table with an unusual faceted pedestal base.
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Thank you, Cottage Living Magazine, for including Cupboards & Roses Antiques in your Web Bonus list of favorite shops.
If you don’t know this publication, check it out at www.cottageliving.com.
 Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Our clocks are famous! They have been featured in Berkshire Living Magazine, inaugurating a new monthly feature “AntiquesHome”.
We recommend Berkshire Living Magazine to all our friends. Since its first issue in December, 2004, it has showcased the cultural events, natural beauty, and eclectic personalities of our area. Pick up a copy at your local newsstand, or subscribe at www.BerkshireLivingMag.com.
Click on the image on the right to read the feature story.
Sunday December 19, 2005
 We have a new shipment arriving within the next few days. There is a very special Swedish clock cabinet coming, as well as number of Gustavian pieces, most in white paint. Please stop by the store or our web site to take a look
Friday September 30, 2005
 We’re in Vogue !
Our German dower chest #32-37 is featured on page 371 of the October issue of Vogue Magazine as a wedding gift fit for a princess! The photo illustrates an article about the recent wedding of Fürstin Vanessa von Bismarck to Maximilian Weiner. When the editors at Vogue asked the Princess what she would like as a wedding gift, she requested a traditional German dower chest. This particular chest is an exceptional example, with its paintings of the bride’s family and of the happy couple. Best wishes, Princess!
Friday September 23, 2005
Our next shipment is packed and on its way from Copenhagen. It should arrive here at the store middle of October, just in time for Leaf Peeping. We have our fingers crossed that we won’t be selected for personal customs inspection, which delays delivery by at least a week.
We have found 3 new Swedish horses, several wonderful servers, Scandinavian chairs, Swedish sofa benches, and a Mora clock in original blue and salmon paint. We are especially excited about a Bavarian Reiterschrank (an armoire with painted horsemen) and an early chest of drawers with wood graining and marbleized top.
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