“Read books.”
Andrea tells me that she’s standing in front of her bookshelf while we’re chatting, and she rattles off the list of titles she references the most: Vintage Furniture by Fay Sweet, and a host of monographs on her favorites (a book on African gold weights because she’s started collecting those, and on Carl Auböck, Axel Vervoordt, and the Cliff May houses), plus Furniture & Interiors—a series that covers decades of styles in mini volumes. She also considers perusing sites like 1stDibs, eBay, and Etsy an education, too.
Perhaps nothing can replace person-to-person expertise, of course: “I found a modern master on Eames,” she tells me, “and learned more in ten minutes talking to him than I could have reading up on him!”
ses), plus Furniture & Interiors—a series that covers decades of styles in mini volumes. She also considers perusing sites like 1stDibs, eBay, and Etsy an education, too.
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