The "new vintage"

Collectors like Hollister, left, and Porter Hovey, sisters with an appetite for late 19th-century relics like apothecary cabinets and dressmakers' dummies, are turning their homes into pastiches of the past.
The Hoveys' loft in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, has no windows, which means more wall space for deer heads.
The sisters are watching their antiquarian interests, which date back to their childhood in Kansas, crest in their hipster-Brooklyn neighborhood, where every act seems framed in quotation marks.
Taxidermy, clubby insignia and ancestral portraits have been decorative staples at trendy Lower East Side restaurants and clothing stores for a while, but now they are catching on at home. Sean Crowley, a neckware designer at Ralph Lauren who lives with his girlfriend, Meredith Modzelewski, has a voracious interest in, for example, the restoration of English and French umbrellas from the 1930s and '40s.
Their Fort Greene, Brooklyn, apartment is chockablock with Edwardian-style portraits, heraldic devices and mounted antlers.
The link between Mr. Crowley's objects and his impulse to acquire them isn't nostalgia, he said. It's '"the draw of authenticity, whether it's an aesthetic, a recipe or a technique."

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/07/29/garden/20090730-PREWAR_6.html