A section of the San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle October 31, 1999 * SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER Sunday, SMITH from B-5 Gina Smith meets the Silicon psychic That figures, but how will the Qi settlement look? There will be an incredible A amount of backroom mediation, and the end-result settlement will come from behind closed doors, definitely. I have told you for the last two years that Microsoft will split into at least two companies, then into four. Yes, you have. Q : That'll happen as a result of A this trial. I feel Bill Gates has already moved on through this ideal. At a personal level, he has grown up and made some significant shifts in recent years. It's probably a combination of PR genius and his heart, but he is giving a lot back k now. I don't know him, but he gets criticized a lot - maybe too much. Yes, he has gotten away with less than admirable business practices, but he had lots of cooperation in doing that. We talked Jobs and O: Gates. How about (Oracle CEO)' Larry Ellison? He announced that he is reforming the Network Computing Inc. (NCI) to sell $199 computers to the masses last week. The NC failed before. Will it fail again? : No. The problem before was A timing. This idea was always a brilliant one, and only now is the market ready for it. Computers need to be more cost-effective and friendly, and Larry's new company will be right in there. How will Mark Andreessen's Q° new company do? Is he just a one-hit wonder? No, but his next hit will take a A lot longer than the first one. He'd better be patient. : Who will be the big holiday 0 winner this year? : Etoys. You hear about all their A competition (from KB Toys, Toys R Us), but this holiday season will tell the real story for Etoys, and Etoys shareholders will like that story. What about the Y2K problem? Q° waste Best Bid Northern California Auctions What's It Worth What's Dear Readers, No one doubts that we live in a wonderful part of the world for art, antiques, collectibles, and museums. (If you can, try to get to the San Francisco Fall Antique Show at Fort Mason. This annual event, a benefit for Enterprise for High School Students, closes today). A quick check in this paper's "Pink openings, special museum exhibits, and more. Dozens of clubs meet on a regular basis to share information, collecting tips, and restoration guidelines to fellow fine art, decorative art, and collectible lovers. One such group is the American Decorative Arts Forum of Northern California. This group exists to encourage the study, enjoyment, and preservation of American decorative arts and furniture - and to give collectors a chance to boast among fellow collectors! The group sponsors monthly slide lectures on a variety of topics given by scholars, collectors, and museum curators from around the country. The question and answer segment after a lecture a few years ago led to the discovery of a treasure. The lecture was about Japanned furniture made in Boston in the 18th century. "Japanning" refers to a popular 18th century finish made of multiple layers of gesso, paint, metal powders, and varnish that was supposed to look like the lacquer furniture imported from the far east. (Europeans and North Americans couldn't make true lacquer because they lacked the main ingredient: sap from the lac tree, grown only in the far east.) Lacquered ornamentation is extremely fragile so not many pieces survive. The speaker, Deborah Federhen, spoke about the process and showed slides of some of the few surviving Japanned pieces. She then opened the floor to questions and comments from the audience. A Decorative Arts Forum member piped up "I have something like that at home!" A visit to the woman's home turned up one of the most significant pieces of American furniture in years. The piece is a William and Mary style Japanned high chest. Until that lecture only five similar chests were known to exist - and none were so fine or had such history! This chest is the best preserved and most densely and whimsically decorated. It came into the owner's family over two centuries ago when, in the 1780s, president John Adams gave it to his sister-in-law Mary Cranch. Although the artist who did the Japanning has not yet been identified, the chest was still the show stopper at Sotheby's recent auction of Americana. What was it worth? The William and Mary Japanned high chest sold for 1.450.000! Treasures can be anywhere! The best way to learn if one of your pieces is a treasure is to educate yourself about art, furniture, and antiques. Check out some museums, auction houses, or galleries listed in the pink section. For information about lectures or membership in the American Decorative Arts Forum of Northern California call their office at 415-431-6930. Happy hunting! 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