And compared with wobbly wooden antiques, the pieces look able to withstand a charging rhino.

The desk, which seemed a massive wooden antique, was actually paper-thin hullmetal, with endless room for secret compartments.

H Map A postcard setting for out-of-town visitors, Antique House is a quaint two-storey teak house and garden filled with wooden antiques and mellow nightly music.

Thomas Andersen Andrew Kreps 529 West 20th Street Chelsea Through Jan. 28 Thomas Anderson, having here his first New York solo show, makes amusing, Pop-surreal parodies of folksy wooden antiques.

The setting is quaintly old fashioned, with gleaming wooden antiques and glowing lamps.