Articles
Posted 09/26/11
The Japanesque silver of the Whiting Manufacturing Company
The 1870s and 1880s were some of the most innovative and exciting decades in the history of the American silver industry. Postwar prosperity, the discovery of silver in the American West, and innovations in manufacturing created an ideal environment for the design and fashioning of original objects.
Posted 09/15/11
The comeback: The National Academy reopens with six new exhibitions
The National Academy reopens with six exhibitions designed to reclaim its pivotal role in American art and architecture.
Posted 09/15/11
Living with antiques: No velvet ropes–a collection in New Jersey
Called the last of the Georgians by the architect Robert A. M. Stern, Mott B. Schmidt dared to be unfashionable, stubbornly designing traditional houses for town and country long after they were in favor.* Schmidt's houses in the American Georgian manner usually relied on a restrained combination of red brick, dark shutters, and white
Posted 07/25/11
The Man Who Could Do Everything
Like Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Kubla Khan, who decreed the building of a stately pleasure dome on "twice five miles of fertile ground/With walls and towers...
Posted 07/21/11
Fortunate Son: Reading the memoirs of Albert Sack
"I was a good student up through 6th grade but then my priorities became play, friends, and girls. Mother kept a beautiful home. Dad was prosperous in carving out his career which interested me not at all."
