Do you ever walk into your home as a stranger? Enter a room for the first time? I approach every manic re-decorating episode this
way.  Even the vignettes created in the store, I will shift and re-angle within an inch.

But to see one’s own visual creations through another’s artistic eye is so very humbling and delightful. The 2^nd Saturday Astoria Artwalk (December 10^th : 5pm until 9pm) … illustrates the unique depiction of Vintage Hardware at the Astor Hotel from a highly talented group.

Vintage Hardware has hosted a local (professional) drawing group for several months.  They quietly, covertly disseminate throughout the store.  Their inspiration?  Perhaps the eclectic inventory curiously and whimsically placed.  However the majestic degentrification of the building is also a stimulus – a backdrop of once plaster perfected columns; laboriously placed tiles and stained-glass skylights.

Breathless, their renderings.  What captures the eye of each artist?  Come see as the group features their depictions and creates new and fresh renderings throughout the evening.

Celebrating the season and complimenting the show will be another local talent of the musical sort … Experience global travel through the musical styling’s of multi-lingual vocalist, Dolores Levine.  Whether you enjoy French jazz, Cape Verde mornas, Italian love songs, Argentinean tangos, Portuguese bossa
novas or Spanish boleros, Acústica provides an international musical atmosphere in global languages.” www.acusticaworldmusic.com