Ep. 47 with antiques dealer Shane Robuck

How to Decorate

Ballard Designs

Arts, Business, Design

4.2 • 785 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This past Fall, Karen met antique dealer Shane Robuck of Robuck & Co on a buying trip to Europe, and we couldn't pass up the opportunity to chat with him about antiques, travel, and his love of furniture. Shane travels the world looking for the most beautiful curiosities and furniture pieces and sells them in his shop in Atlanta. Shane tells us about his love of Italy and his favorite cities for finding the best piecesShane tells us about how he started buying antiques and who helped him educate his eyeThe guiding principal he uses to buy pieces -- gauging with your heart and buying what you loveWe talk about why the millennial generation doesn't buying as many antiquesShane gives us a quick lesson on antiques from various countriesShane tells us the story of buying his tufted sofa with adjustable armsHe tells us what types of antiques are currently trending in his shopTaryn asks about tips about shopping for antiques in a shopWe talk about negotiating and what's a fair price to offer

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome back to the How to Decorate Podcast from Ballard Designs.
0:03.4	We want to teach you how to decorate your home and unleash your inner decorator.
0:07.1	So we'll be interviewing interior designers, stylists, and other talents in the design world,
0:11.1	sharing the trials and triumphs of our own homes, and also answering your decorating questions.
0:15.6	I'm Caroline. I'm on the Ballard Designs blog, How to Decorate.com.
0:19.3	And I'm Taryn. I'm on the product design team at Ballard.
0:21.6	And I'm Karen, and I head up branding at Ballard.
0:24.2	We're your host.
0:25.0	Hey, y'all.
0:25.3	Oh, I'm doing the intro this week.
0:40.7	Yeah.
0:41.1	Okay.
0:41.5	So you guys, I'm excited to have someone here that I actually just met this year.
0:44.9	His name is Shane Roebuck.
0:46.2	And I was lucky enough to meet him when I was on a trip with Ballard looking for antiques.
0:52.6	And so was he because his entire life, I believe,
0:57.0	is combing the world for beautiful antiques
0:59.9	and bringing him back to Atlanta
1:01.8	where he has a business that he's had for 25 years
1:04.3	called Roebuck & Company,
1:05.8	where he and his associates sell the most beautiful pieces of, well, not just furniture, but oddities and
1:13.2	curiosities and pieces of wall decor and all kinds of stuff.
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