Books: Bachelor Pad - Machine à Amuser: The Life and Death of the Beistegui Penthouse Apartment by Wim van den Bergh
Editor’s Letter: September/October 2024 - Editor-in-chief Mitch Owens introduces the September/October 2024 issue.
Thomas Cole Visits Prophetstown - Artist Alan Michelson takes residence at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site.
Field Notes: Heavenly Visions - The legendary sect’s short-lived “gift drawings” of Shaker women are a hypnotic and still puzzling cornucopia of rapturous color and mysterious coding.
Curious Objects: Learning to Love Antique Rugs, with Jan David Winitz (Parts 1 & 2) - Dealer Jan David Winitz has specialized in oriental rugs for many years, but he never sold the first rug that sparked his passion...
Found in Translation - Despite their diverse origins, modern and folk arts from around the world achieve unity in the former home—now house museum—of an American expat in Mexico.
Museum visit: Going Platinum - The Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe celebrates seventy years on the scene.
Consolation Prizes - An exhibition at Frederic Church’s Olana highlights the nineteenth-century culture of memory and memorial.
LIVING WITH ANTIQUES
Habitat for Humanity
By Stacy C. Hollander with photography by Ellen McDermott and Bridget Sciales