Category Archives: What is it?

  This is my Mother’s Apple Cake. I still remember fondly eating big slices of it as a child a few times every year. The recipe was lost on her passing but it recently showed up in a wicker basket … Continue reading →

  This ancient elaborately carved and painted wood panel is actually the front of a Chinese Jitney (aka litter). See the diagram below. There probably were curtains all around for privacy. There are notches at the bottom corners to fit … Continue reading →

This is a really old, bronze, handheld Chinese mirror. This is the decorated backside. The two wetland birds are either cranes or herons. They have different symbolic meanings. The front is highly polished and produces a reasonable reflection. I don’t … Continue reading →

This is a cast iron pictural sign that was placed on the wall above entrance to a wool shop in Munich, Germany, sometime in the 1800’s. I bought it at a flea market in Frankfort about five years ago. I … Continue reading →

This is a prayer chair (in French: Prie Dieu). When walking on the Grand Place in Brussels in 1969 with Daniele and my friend Ken Weinstein, we spotted a pile of “wood junk” on the plaza in front of the … Continue reading →

The painting was a view from Daniele Yonet’s bedroom window in Nancy, France, where she stayed Monday through Friday. Daniele’s single mother was employed in a government office and did not leave work until 7 p.m. (Yonet said that in … Continue reading →

For years, resident Howard Yonet has supported the students at the Santa Monica Community College Art Department by purchasing several of the glass plates/objects. He hopes that you were able to attend the glass sale this past Sunday at Simon … Continue reading →

These are examples of Depression Glass. When my parents went to our local movie theater, the Claridge on Avenue P in Brooklyn, New York, on Friday or Saturday night there would be a large display of glass dinnerware in the … Continue reading →

It is a cast iron stove that Dr. Howard Yonet bought at a lawn sale somewhere in the Catskill Mountains around 1963. Yonet said it was a rusted pot and took him “on and off a year” using steel wool … Continue reading →

It’s a laundry paddle that belonged to Daniele’s paternal grandmother and was used from around 1900 to 1920 in their home in the town of Domevre in the Lorraine province of France. The grandmother had a wash basin in an … Continue reading →