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One of the newest social networks online is atQuid, a community for antiques, art and vintage object enthusiasts and collectors. By its very nature, collecting is an extraverted, positive social experience. Collectors love to share their passion and explain the stories behind their favorite collectors’ items.
atQuid offers interactive features such as those on YouTube, and networking tools such as those on LinkedIn, Plaxo or Facebook. It allows members to build meaningful social exchange and to network, sharing their passion with fellow members. The content is user generated and membership is free.
Alan Ehrlich, “serial collector” and founder of atQuid: “Collecting is all about sharing a passion. Even if you don’t collect the same thing as a friend or acquaintance you try to understand what they are collecting, you live their passion through their eyes. “
atQuid is one of the very few antique and collectors Websites, perhaps the only one, to combine the informational aspects about all antiques, art objects and vintage items, with networking and social exchange.
About atQuid
Quid = What?/How much? (Latin)
Qunol = QUid Network Online Legacy
atQuid was founded by Alan Ehrlich, a US citizen, born and raised in New York and living in Geneva Switzerland since nearly 40 years. Throughout his life, Alan has been collecting many different objects, including phonographs, music boxes, vintage toys period furniture, 20th century design, Coca Cola and other advertising items, posters, postcards, watches, pens, and much more. After studies in New York and Philadelphia completing a BA and MA in Psychology, he left for Switzerland, where he pursued his graduate studies with Prof. Jean Piaget, the famous child psychologist. He then went on to work at Battelle Institute, a global think tank, to Nestlé, where he provided counsel to top management, and finally launched his own market research institute. Over the years one of his hobbies, vintage wristwatches, became his business, when he founded “Time & Design” an international company trading in these vintage timekeepers. Later he also organized major international auctions of vintage fountain pens, including one that earned him a Guinness Book of Records inscription for the “Most Expensive Vintage Fountain Pen in the World”. Alan lives with his wife and two children in a country house close to Geneva and runs atQuid out of his home.
Contact:
Gabriela Ehrlich
Press Office atQuid
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+41 22 752 29 92
www.atquid.com
atQuid
Sharing the Passion. Preserving the Knowledge.
