Happy 2013! I can’t believe it’s been almost a year since I started this blog. I’m incredibly grateful for your visits, feedback and friendship. And, delighted to have met so many of you in person. Many thanks!
Also, thank you to my awesome blog friends and colleagues. For anyone who has wanted to start a blog, do so in 2013. I know you’ll find, just as I have, the community to be supportive and generous. A special thanks to three blog friends for their thoughtful gifts and giveaway wins during the holidays. Check out their blogs:
– Jim from The Road to Parnassus
At Tone on Tone, we’re ringing in 2013 with a new shipment. Enjoy this preview and little tour of our shop. In with the old, please!   
This pair of Swedish barrel-back chairs have unique leaf tip carved rails and graceful, sweeping lines.

Below is an original green painted 18th century Mora clock which just arrived. It
has a beautiful curvilinear shape and a classic hourglass form typical
of Swedish tall case clocks.
A handsome pair of Swedish Empire console tables with very shallow depth – wonderfully and sympathetically restored. Note the Greek key aprons and step-back plinth bases.
A large Swedish or French painted settee with a shaped and high backrest – newly reupholstered. Pillows are in Rogers and Goffigon fabrics.
An 18th century Swedish Rococo table. It’s graceful, humble and soulful. The top has been repainted, which is common for antique painted tables due to years of scrubbing and wear.
This pair of Swedish Empire demi lune (half moon) console tables have recessed aprons with inset drawers—not commonly found in Swedish demi lunes. They also have elegant brass escutcheons and sabots.
An exquisitely carved and small Swedish daybed from the Gustavian Period – Ca. 1780-90s. The scalloped skirt is found on 3 sides. The surface has been scraped down to it’s early gray color.
A single demi lune console with allover neoclassical details, early 1800s.
It’s been a while since I’ve had a tall Gustavian secretaire. This one has all the hallmarks of that period: reeded doors, diamonds, pilasters and columns. In the niche would have been vellum books.
In the foyer of our shop I’ve placed this 18th Cen Swedish blue cabinet. With it’s shallow depth and drawers for keys, wallets and tchotchkes, don’t you think it is perfect in a foyer or hall?
Here’s a fabulous Continental carved marble sink with lion face. There is an original drainage hole at the bottom so it’s all ready for installation.
I love mixing painted furniture with natural colored pieces. The elmwood secretaire is Danish. The oak Os de Mouton chairs and cherry table are all French.

Another French piece is the 18th century architectural “wooden curtains” from a chateau—most likely from the children’s play theater. I think it would make a dramatic statement over an upholstered bed.

Wishing you a happy and healthy New Year!