Juxtaposing old and new: Photo stylist Nan Whitney

In Pottery Barn's April catalogue, you can see how a few well-chosen vintage accessories bring a sense of individual style and personal taste to an otherwise neutral home setting.

NY photo stylist Nan Whitney (whose other design work you can see here) stopped by Timeless Treasures while on a search for props to complement Pottery Barn's latest home furnishings in their catalogue and on their website.

Starting with a PB sign that replicates the style of those found at old rowing clubs, Nan added vintage items and photos to carry out a theme of a love for the sea and seaside experiences.

Notice the old sign letters that spell SEA (in the large shadowbox frame), the number 4 (in the smaller frame on the wall), the large vintage jar (on the floor to the right) and the huge letter Y (barely visible on the far left), all from Timeless Treasures.

"I like to juxtapose vintage things with what's new to create 'layers' of time, emotion and experience," Nan says. Pottery Barn's sleek, contemporary collector's shadowbox, for instance, becomes multi-dimensional when it contains a collection of personal mementoes, such as old brass letters displayed with postcards and fish net. The jar filled with seashells adds more texture and reinforces the by-the-sea theme.