Collecting

What's in your collection? A $25,000 chair made of 50-cent pieces? Priceless original artwork that tempt your children to add to it with their marking pens? Boxes of old home magazines? There's someone else just like you. And if you collect antiques, you should know this: You're now in the minority. Antique storefronts are closing as shoppers shift to wanting either contemporary furnishings or buying their antiques at auctions and the Web. Check out the collectors and their stories in the subpages below.