Antiques and old garden accessories such as wrought iron windows, gates and fences, old stone troughs, antique pottery, oil jars and old wagons, add richness and personality to the garden. Objects that were once common and inexpensive are now becoming more and more difficult to find, but Eye of the Day has been continually adding…
Garden Décor
Santa Lives at Eye of the Day
In the basement of a farmhouse in the south of France were locked away a number of hand carved wooden papier mache molds that had been there since the mid-1900s. On an early trip searching for unique garden ornaments for Eye of the Day we received word that there was a cache of these just…
A touch of history
When we tell our friends and customers that we travel around the world looking for antiques, I’m sure that the first mental image is of armoires and farm tables. We, however, have something else in mind. Our bent is for those antiques particular to the outdoors like garden carts, old wheelbarrows, vineyard wagons. What if…
Intagliatore di pietra misteriosa
The only research that bore fruit was a call to Luigi Silvestri. The ESTEEMED Luigi Silvestri of A. Silvestri Company in South San Francisco. I interrupted his lunch, but he told me that the sculptor’s name is Alberto Milani, a master Italian stone carver, no longer living. Luigi knows a lot about Italian sculpture and…
