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Including this example, Bellinger and his Sampson Bog Studios only made three pool tables. A multi-disciplinary artist, Bellinger is known for mounting his paintings onto his furniture designs to create an aesthetic all his own.Īt the top of the sale, earning $61,200 and establishing Bellinger’s new auction record, was a regulation-size Adirondack pool table that sold to a collector with a great camp lodge in the Adirondacks. True to form, an auction record for Bellinger was set three times this sale, each result surpassing the $15,340 paid in 2019 at Blanchard’s for a flaming birch table with painted Adirondack scene backsplash. It was expensive then, but it’s quality, and it keeps going up in value,” Blanchard said. “Buying a piece of Barney Bellinger today is like buying a piece of Tiffany 100 years ago. This is where the story with the man-about-town, renowned contemporary furniture maker Barney Bellinger, begins. The 477-lot sale at Blanchard’s Auction Service grossed just under $1 million with more than 2,000 bidders registered for the online-only affair, with bidders also able to participate through phone and absentee.Ī gentleman who bought from and commissioned contemporary rustic furniture makers to furnish his lodge in Western Pennsylvania supplied about 60 to 70 percent of the lots in the auction, including all the high-flyers. – “There have never been two more recognizable names in the Rustic Furniture Movement than Barney Bellinger and Ralph Kylloe,” auctioneer Kip Blanchard told us following his firm’s October 10 auction.
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Review by Greg Smith, Photos Courtesy Blanchard’s Auction Service The artist recalled buying it out of a basement, making sure it was functional, and then embellishing it with his signature style.
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Barney Bellinger’s auction record reached a new high with the $61,200 paid for this Adirondack pool table.