What’s hot right now are the cleaner lines of casual French country and Swedish antiques, a style often called “Gustavian,” after Swedish King Gustav III, who fell in love with French Neoclassical style after a visit to the Palace of Versailles in the 1780s.   Margaret Schwartz will have her Modern...

How microsbusinesses within the art & antiques dealing community are getting into the digital fastlane! Art Daily quotes Margaret Schwartz, owner Modern Antiquarian, on the benefits of working with Ronati and the newest version of their "e-Commerce Manager (eCM), a piece of software that allows art and antiques dealers to...

Everyone is talking about The Queen's Gambit on Netflix. While I haven't seen it this series yet, we noticed the funniest thing! By chance, we recently had a stunning alabaster chess set in our inventory photographed. We purchased it in the UK, but it's an Italian set with a beautiful...

How Margaret Schwartz began an antiques business in one day.

Modern Antiquarian was featured in the April 2020 Home monthly section of the Connecticut Hearst family of newspapers. Margaret was interviewed by Andrea Valluzzo on the topic of Swedish style.

If you love antiques but don't know how or where to shop for them, you might be under the impression that you'll just have to live without your dream vintage furniture. But the reality is, there are actually tons of places you can shop for vintage pieces and antiques!

Ronati interviewed me about what Modern Antiquarian does and why I love Gustavian!

Today on the Chaise Lounge, your host is the Antiques Diva Toma Clark Haines. Toma chats with her friend and fellow antiques dealer Margaret Schwartz of Modern Antiquarian. They discuss the behind-the-scenes life of an antique dealer, like how easy it is to get into on accident and the way dealers need to surf on economic waves to weather recession.