What do some of the top interior design trends like Japandi, Grandmillennial and Art Deco have in common? Besides being increasingly popular year after year, they rely on a healthy dose of carefully curated vintage and antique items. Whether it's an antique vessel to hold your perfectly imperfect branches in your Japandi home or an elaborate vintage dresser to match.
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are under way to return to it rome. the global market in art and antiquities was worth $50 billion in 2020. according to authorities there were at least $20 million worth of italian artifacts trafficked last year. people want to participate in history, people want to own history. and obviously you want to do it legitimately, you want to go through the proper authorities, the right auction houses that can say, i guarantee that what you re purchasinge ing has the provenance. reporter: darius says it s not just criminals, it goes all the food chain to the buyer. italy s cultural police force is credited with bringing back italy s stolen treasures. in 2020, the italian cultural police were able to bring back 500,000 stolen items. that s in just one year alone. translator: there is a double damage when they take away
Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyLast September, New York City’s Swann Galleries were advertising the sale of an invaluable piece of Spanish and Mexican history: a 500-year-old letter involving Hernán Cortés, the Spanish military leader and colonizer. The letter was expected to sell for somewhere between $20,000 and $30,000 until a group of academics intervened. Reuters reports that the letter was one of a cluster of Cortés documents that had been stolen out of the National Archive of Mexico (AGN) and put up for sale. What’s even more shocking is that this is not the first time that important and valuable pieces of history have been stolen from a national archive, prominent library, or museum and ended up on the block at a prominent auction house.The thefts would have gone unnoticed had it not been for the investigations of amateur sleuths and professional academics María Isabel Grañén Porrúa, a scholar of Spanish