"If I was going to salt it with fake antiques, I could sure have done better than some old bottles and cans," he said.

But the goal, designers said, is not to fool the eye, like the fake antiques that blanketed the East Coast during the post-modern 80's.

"There are so many fake antiques on the market right now that people don't want to bother with them," said J. Randall Powers, an interior designer in Houston.

The fake antiques at Harlingsworth's home linked him with Ki Woong.

The items that had been sold as fake antiques were actually almost worth the prices paid for them.

Taking advantage of the ban on motorised traffic, they cruise the main tourist drags, posing for photographs and shopping for lacquer ware and fake antiques.

With modern technology, it has become easy to produce fake antiques, in Thailand as everywhere else, and Chatuchak has more than its share.

Sometimes you just need a fake antique from the Beijing flea market.

The Europa had the same manufactured calm - like fake antiques - of any international hotel.

Brighella again manages to fool Anselmo, who is intent on admiring an ancient Greek manuscript, by selling him fake antiques.