An alien from outer space???? No, it is an amazing chair from Kelter-Malce!!!

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Folk art dealers for four decades, Jolie Kelter & Michael Malce created a design movement referred to as "outsider style."  Their Bleecker Street store was a mecca for unique works from self-taught furniture makers and artists, as well as spectacular & unusual antiques. It was a storehouse for discarded materials that had a second life as spectacular "objects!" Jolie & Michael subscribe to the the theory "more patina than provenance!" 

Visitors to the shop included collectors, dealers, interior designers, stylists, and museum curators....and me!!  As both looker and buyer, spending  countless hours among their incredible "stuff", I felt like I was privileged to have had a private viewing of the world's most fascinating museum. And being able to take something home and "own" it....that was over the top!  It could be a blue & white spongeware vessel, a vintage western blanket or a robot made from nuts & bolts......everything was amazing!! 

Spending time with them this weekend at the EH Antique show was an incredible history lesson about a world that is greatly changing.  Hearing them talk lovingly of objects that had moved on to other homes and those that still live with them was inspiring. And again, I fell madly in love with another inanimate object...... this alien-like chair!! Made from a single root, she called to me for three days. She is the most divine creature, an alien from another planet. How could all of our heart's not be captured by her!!!

Today Jolie, Michael, and my chair can be found at 2466 Main Street, Bridgehampton (tel. 631 537-3838.  Kelter Malce, join antique/folk art dealers Barbara Trujillo and Brian Ramaekers in the most magical shop in the Hampton's!!!  A feast for the eye, the most magical objects that can be found anywhere, these four dealers have a design sensabiity that is beyond unique.....DO NOT MISS IT!!!!



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