Trail of Tiles
by Anna Sui with Daniel Robbins
A fantasia in ceramic, Leighton House in London testifies to the decorative sense of its namesake builder, artist Frederic Leighton, and the craftsmanship of William De Morgan.
Ready to Wear
by Sarah Davis
One of the most discerning collectors of costume jewelry is fashion designer Norma Kamali, who has been snapping up lux and creative examples from around the world since the 1960s.
A String of Pearls in a Shoebox
by Marie Penny
In a radiantly decorated and appointed turn-of-the-century tea house on a Long Island estate, the vision of American artist and Elsie de Wolfe protégé Everett Shinn stands revealed.
The Patient Collector - With modest means and fifty-five years of persistence, a Maine state employee built a remarkable collection—and a legacy— one or two objects at a time.
From The Guest Editor’s Attic – Michael Diaz-Griffith - If you are reading this letter, chances are you’ve already caught the collecting bug—or perhaps, like me, you were born ill with it. If that's you: welcome. You are among friends.
Books: Silver Standard - Beautifully produced and informative, Wiwen Nilsson is the first English-language monograph on the Swedish silversmith, designer, jeweler, and sculptor Karl Edvin Nilsson.
Books: Digging the Modern Garden - “I have great admiration for ways in which landscape architecture can lend understanding of a historic house,” says author Beth Dunlop.
Exhibitions: Frames in Focus - You may think the frame is an afterthought compared to the painting it contains—added by the purchaser to hold the art and attach it to the wall—but historically frames have been designed and made by notable architects, master sculptors, and artist-gilders.
Endnotes: Walk-in Closet of Curiosity - At the Fashion Institute of Technology, designer clothes and accessories evoke the exotic objects coveted by collectors during the Age of Discovery.
Cartier: Jeweler of Kings, King of Jewelers - This spring, jewelry lovers visiting the Victoria and Albert Museum in London may have difficulty choosing between the institution’s encyclopedic collection of ornaments and the stunning Cartier exhibition, opening to the public April 12, which features more than 350 objects.
Smoking Hot - Are Ozempic-thinned celebrities bringing you down? So what else is new? A century ago another form of appetite suppressant caught fire among females in the smart set—nicotine. As hourglass figures were supplanted by boyish frames, slim became the new ideal and smoking provided the means to get there.
Exhibitions: Paperweights on Parade - The Flint Institute of Arts (FIA) in Michigan is the ideal venue for the new exhibition A Symphony of Glass: Paperweights from the Ellis Collection. 
Paper Caper - Imagine walking along your downtown street, ready to spend an afternoon shopping. But as you’re glancing into shop windows, you don’t see wool sweaters or cotton dresses—instead, it’s all paper. 
Exhibitions: Out of Obscurity, into the Light - Works by artist Nancy Elizabeth Prophet are rare and seldom exhibited because fewer than two dozen are known to exist. Nearly all of them are included in Nancy Elizabeth Prophet: I Will Not Bend an Inch, the first-ever museum survey devoted to this elusive American artist, whose important contributions to twentieth-century art, especially in the field of sculpture, have only lately been fully recognized.
LIVING WITH ANTIQUES
Habitat for Humanity
By Stacy C. Hollander with photography by Ellen McDermott and Bridget Sciales
