EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT we love old things," says the burlesque artist Angie Pontani, who is showing me the exuberant, family-hand-medown-filled Marine Park house in in Southeast Brooklyn she shares with her husband, the musician Brian Newman, and their 8-yearE old daughter, Sistilia. "And if you give me something, I can't get rid of it."
"That was my aunt Livia's," Pontani notes, pointing out the armchair in the living room, "from when she got her first apartment in the '80s." Pontani and Newman had it reupholstered in leopard. The matching ottoman, from her aunt Norma, dates from the 1940s. The bedroom set was her parents. The chandelier is from Grandma Mary, "who brought it back from Italy in the '50s," she says. "There's also Great-grandpa Paul's office chair from his restaurant, Casa Lido, in Trenton."
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