Antiques for Interior Design
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Course overview
Expert in antiques and regular presenter on the Antiques Roadshow on BBC, Marc Allum teaches you how to choose antiques for interior design.
Marc will teach you how to combine art, antiques and collectables in your home and interior designs, where to find antiques (from markets to auction houses) and what's good taste.
As you learn you'll be working on your own antiques interior project, and thinking about how you can combine antiques and art from different periods and styles for your taste.
Choose the Expert option above to receive personal feedback from Marc on your assignment.
You'll learn:
- how to source art and antiques from shops and auctions
- How to get ‘the eye’
- What constitutes ‘good taste’ (and whether or not that’s important)
- Art history and historic interior design and their re-interpretation for domestic use
- Using your own design initiatives
- How to choose, buy and combine colour, textiles and soft furnishings
- Restoration tricks of the trade and the purposes of restoration
- How to enjoy living with antiques and collectables
- Collecting antiques tips
- Basis of the skills and knowledge you need to understand the antiques business
Marc has worked on a number of antique interior design projects (from the historic to the post-modern), which illustrate the dramatic value of well-chosen art, antiques and design elements to produce classic or challenging home and work interiors.
You'll learn how to develop your taste in antiques and design using Marc's insight into designing and decorating with originality.
Marc’s eclectic precept that ‘anything goes’, his sense of style and his innate passion for objects allows him to advise on design in an approachable way.
You'll receive tips on mixing ordinary objects with valuable antiques from different periods, along with practical advice on how and where to buy antique pieces around the world, including markets and auction house tips and tricks.
Time to complete this antiques for interiors course:
Every student is different but in general we think the whole course will take around 2 hours 50 mins to complete including:
- Video lesson: 20 minutes
- Assignment: at least 2 hours
- Interactive classroom time: 15 minutes
- Tutor feedback review (Expert level): 15 minutes
You'll need:
You don't need any special equipment, but you will be making a list of designers and thinking about your own interiors and antique tastes.
The course is suitable for all levels - beginner collectors to antiques professionals who want to learn from an expert antiques specialist.
The course includes:
- 1 on-demand video lesson - presented by Marc Allum
- lifetime access to the video, notes and interactive class
- flexible classes - join and learn when and where you like
- downloadable lesson notes
- practical (optional) antiques project (no antiques purchasing required!)
- access on your mobile, PC, Mac or laptop
- small interactive online classroom chat online to students from around the world
Ready to get started?
Just add the course to your basket above - choose the 'Expert' option for personal feedback from Marc on antiques and questions.
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Lesson summary
Secrets from a professional; sourcing antiques
Get the most from peer knowledge
- Start course whenever you like
- Practise what you learn with your peers
- Online classroom with up to 20 classmates
- Lessons with videos & notes
- Course assignments
- Group chat & direct message classmates
- Lifetime access to videos, notes & classroom
Why choose Learning with Experts?
Frequently asked questions
What’s the difference between PEER and EXPERT levels?
At Peer and Expert level, you get access to the same core content and features:
- Video lesson tutorials led by your expert tutor
- Downloadable lesson notes
- Option to practise what you learn with lesson assignments
- Group learning within an online interactive classroom of up to 20 classmates
- Lifetime access to videos, notes and classroom
If you choose Expert level, you get all of the above plus the following:
- Personalised assignment feedback and coaching from your expert tutor
- Opportunity to interact with your expert tutor through a private messaging system
- Certificate of completion.
What is an online classroom?
Our online classroom has been developed to allow you to learn from our experts in a sociable environment alongside up to 20 other students. After each video tutorial led by your expert, you will be encouraged to practice what you have learned with optional assignments - these can be seen by the other students in your class, who are free to share their own thoughts and questions with you.
You will be encouraged to take part in an ongoing class discussion where you can discuss ideas, post images or work, and comment on each other’s assignments. It’s a great way to learn from other like-minded people who share your passion from all over the world.
This means not only do you benefit from people who are outstanding in their field, but also from a close-knit group of like-minded people whom you can learn alongside. Group learning has shown to greatly improve not just the experience of studying, but also how well you retain the knowledge, and we have built our classroom experience around this fact.
When can I start my course and how long will it take?
You can start your course any time within 12 months after receipt of your purchase confirmation email. Once you start, you’ll have lifetime access — meaning you can revisit the lesson videos and notes whenever you want.
Our courses are designed so that you can study at your own pace, some prefer to binge learn while others like to spread their studying over a longer period of time - it’s completely up to you. To give you a rough time frame, each lesson video is approximately 30-40 minutes long, and we recommend that you spend around an hour on each assignment.
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