John Dorety Antiques Philadelphia, PA

When you can't save the building, save the craftsmanship! For the past twenty five years, John Dorety has been both selling and buying antiques, and designing and building with architectural salvage. He reuses many of these elements to design and build pretty wine cellars, bars, backbars, libraries, kitchen islands and a host of other functional items, in both domestic and commercial settings.

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Lansdowne Church Report

We are looking for a second life for this church interior. Built in 1954 and designed by renowed architects, Martin, Stewart and Noble, the church is scheduled for demolition. The interior fixtures and furniture are Honduran mahogany. George Nakashima was commissioned to do the vesibule furnishings (not included).

Trumbauer Hall Report

We salvaged this room from The Regina Mundy Convent, a Horace Trumbauer-designed building that was demolished in 2002, and reinstalled it into an eighteenth-century farmhouse addition, custom-built to receive the room.

Locust Club Bar Report

We salvaged this mahogany bar from The Locust Club in Philadelphia, then reinstalled it in a residence. We then designed and built the rest of the room with matching mahogany, which included raised panel column wraps, and coffered ceiling.

Seven Arts Article Report

What Goes Around. Sitting in Center City's chic Circa restaurant, you'd swear the long, oh-s0-elegant bar came out of a late-19th-century Chicago saloon. But its history is a little more complicated. It's actually an amalgam of antique elements - including foyer panels and closet crowns from various abandoned houses in North Philadelphia - mixed and matched with reproduction plaster capitals and carved fluted pilasters.

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