Article in The Improper Bostonian
Article in STUFF @night
by, Mopsy Strange Kennedy, October 6, 1998
Reprinted with permission of The Improper Bostonian Magazine, Boston, MA
There's a fine and funny line here where beautiful advertising of yesteryear comes together as high-quality kitsch, accompanied by such things as suave, gentlemanly accoutrements for smoking and drinking. After the sins are gone, the gorgeous equipment remains--Errol Flynnish silver cigarette cases, exotic tobacco boxes and flasks, many art deco style. Gary Epstein, this shop's entertaining owner, also showcases objects like a big red gas pump, or the vast valentine of a Coca Cola sign, working vending machines and a painted restaurant sign from Provincetown, sporting a carved chicken. He has for sale a bronze woman warrior who zooms purposefully across a marble base ("I call her Xena Epstein"). The shop owner also loves the more aesthetic, old-fashioned fittings of various trades--the optometrist's roll-top desk, the traveling shoe shiner's bench, a trustworthy doctor made of glass. He's transformed a beautiful 1920's chrome base of a casket gurney into a glass-topped table. The Machine Age is present in a head made of a truck's compressor. One wall is covered with a huge, spectacular poster for a magician, Carter The Great, errily occult.
by, Susanne Kammlot, September 1, 1998
Reprinted with permission of STUFF @night magazine, a subsidiary of
The Boston Phoenix, Boston, MA.
Once you've found the perfect vintage suit or dress, the next
step is rounding up the perfect accessories--perhaps a '50s wristwatch or a
Bauhaus-inspired cigarette case. One place to try: Timeless Antiques in
Cambridge, a haven for high-end and unusual must-haves.
A relatively new kid on the block, owner Gary Epstein
hung up his vintage shingle only last November (1997), and now Timeless is filled with objets
d'art and one-of-a-kind oddities.
"I love to shop, and I look for stuff that's different. I want people
to come in and feel comfortable, so they can really get to know the pieces," he says.
"The other day, I had an older gentleman look around for quite a while, then
say, 'Thank you, I felt very normal in here.'" Other recent drop-ins include
well-known style mavens Robert Reich and Peter Wolf.
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