Art and Antiques that are Well Traveled

Named to Maine Magazine’s “A” list and featured in Maine Home + Design magazine, we personally source art and antiques in Europe and the UK. The Art of Antiquing – personally curated by Margaret Brown – is a European and United Kingdom-sourced antiques business featuring incredible finds spanning the centuries.

After living overseas for many years and cultivating great relationships with sources and dealers throughout Europe and England, we moved back to Maine and began The Art of Antiquing. Every year, we travel extensively overseas sourcing our antiques and art, then we make our way back to our store in beautiful Round Pond, Maine each year as the weather turns warmer.

While we’re in Maine – and when we are traveling overseas, our contacts are keeping us in touch with interesting must-haves for our clientele, including special antique pieces and collectibles from France, England, Italy and elsewhere in Europe that are destined to become conversation pieces and heirlooms.


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In with the Old

In the village of Round Pond, where the Fourth of July parade passes through every summer and the Granite Hall Store still sells old-fashioned penny candy, is Margaret Brown’s year-old seasonal antique shop, the Art of Antiquing. Specializing in pieces unearthed from antique emporiums and dealers across Europe, which are then transported across the Atlantic on cargo ships, the store sells all manner of Old World furniture, lighting, paintings, and even architectural elements...

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It Takes A Village

The project started 15 years before they broke ground. For years, Tillyorn (as the Brown family home would come to be called) stood tall in Margaret Brown’s mind. The only sign of the house-that-would-be were a series of stakes that dotted the field of her Pemaquid property, laying out where the living room would go, where the porch would open out toward the water. For years, she spent summers with her family in the original 1800s saltwater cape (which is still on site)...

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Maine Antique Stores

From high-end cabinetry to limitededition books and vintage trinkets, local antique sellers curate utopias of nostalgia for all shoppers. During her winters in London, owner Margaret Brown sources antiques from Europe to sell at her Round Pond-based store, which reopens after Mother’s Day...

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48 Hours on Pemaquid Peninsula

The Art of Antiquing, which is lavish and packed with vintage art, furniture, and various antiquities. Downstairs we drool over a dreamy French Louis XVI–period sofa, marble-top nightstands, and a case of stunning British jewelry. Upstairs we’re tempted by more treasures: a twentieth-century crocodile handbag, a pristine tortoiseshell and sterling silver card case, and an emerald green bone and feather fan...

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The Art of Antiquing

Welcome to our world of European antiques—an eclectic mix sourced with your good taste in mind. Ours is a uniquely European and United Kingdom-sourced antiques business with stock spanning the centuries. Browse our site to understand our perspective on antiques, ephemera, art, and home décor and then make plans to shop with us. We’re here to be your source for pieces that will become family heirlooms...

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Return to Round Pond

We’re booked at the 1700s Chamberlain House in Round Pond, which, like New Harbor, is one of a handful of villages that compose the town of Bristol on the Pemaquid Peninsula, about 70 miles up the coast from Portland. I’ve wanted to return since a memorable day at Muscongus Bay Lobster two summers ago, when photographer Peter Frank Edwards and I made the drive for Pemaquid oysters and grilled halibut served in steel skillets at a table on the wharf overlooking Round Pond Harbor....

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15 Must-Visit Antique Stores in Maine

Personally curated by dealer Margaret Brown, who travels to Europe to source items for the store, The Art of Antiquing is a must-stop antique shop in Maine. You'll find incredible original art, fine furniture, serving pieces, jewelry, and much more. Each item is hand chosen and artfully displayed, and the experience of shopping in the restored historical building that houses the shop is akin to time travel. The Art of Antiquing has varying seasonal hours, so it's a good idea to check the times when you're planning your trip...

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Margaret Brown – Designing my Home

Knickerbocker Group worked to build a home that would stand the test of time, fit into the historic feel of the land, and honor the homeowner’s design aesthetic. Since the client owns The Art of Antiquing, a European antique shop in Round Pond, she had an extensive collection of art and furnishings that she was saving for the home...

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