Ben Miller examines a piece of trinitite—glass formed in the 1945 Trinity nuclear test—and a stained-glass window formerly installed in Yale’s Hopper College, both featured in John Stuart Gordon’s new book “American Glass.”
At home in modernism: The John C. Waddell collection of American design (From our Archives)
Waddell’s New York City apartment is filled with striking examples of American design from between the wars
At home in modernism: The John C. Waddell collection of American design
Photography by John M. Hall | from The Magazine ANTIQUES, May/June 2012 | The art of today must be created today,” the designer and author Paul T. Frankl wrote in 1928. “It must express the life about us. It must reflect the main characteristics and earmarks of our own complex civilization.”1 Over the past four decades, collector John C. Waddell …
Elizabeth Hubbart’s Gold Thimble
Inside the world of a female merchant in early Boston. ⬬
May/June 2026
Subscribe to The Magazine ANTIQUES today! And sign-up for our newsletter! MAY/JUNE 2026Guest Editor’s Letter Ulysses Grant Dietz The Obscure ConnoisseurPart V: In which the author is awakened to the splendor of his vintage bathrooms. …
Toasts and Testimonials
A collection of tributes, memories, comments, and reflections in honor of our 100th anniversary
Curious Objects: Chatting about Museum Health and Georgian Glass
A look at current and upcoming episodes of our podcast
Wandering Eye: A Stitch in Time
What the editors of The Magazine ANTIQUES are looking at this week
Magazine September/October 2020
Subscribe to The Magazine ANTIQUES today! And sign-up for our newsletter! SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2020 Editor’s LetterGregory Cerio Critical Thinking/Difficult IssuesA More Perfect Union Glenn Adamson Current and ComingGarden openings, slavery and women’s suffrage in Nantucket, and Girlhood in Washington, DC Farther AfieldOff the Piazza, Another World: Celebrating a Venetian institution, Caffè Florian at 300 James Gardner Object LessonThe Sculpture of Meta Vaux …
Pharm to Table
Yale’s American Furniture Study Center moves to a new home in a former Bayer laboratory.
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