Magazine May/June 2025

Michael Diaz-Griffith

Reading the Room
Sarah Archer

String Theory: Once more familiar than the harpsichord, the salterio is being rediscovered by musicians drawn to its complexity, history, and spellbinding sound.
Benjamin Davidson and Pippa Biddle

A roundtable with the next generation of decorative arts curators, a new age for old wonders, and an artist’s take on collecting.

Objects of obsession from a group of young collectors at the forefront of a new collecting culture.

Design in the 1940s at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Mid-West modern at Cranbrook, British country house treasures at WOW!house London, and more.

Marcus & Co.: Three Generations of New York Jewelers by Sheila Barron Smithie and Beth Carver Wees

New leaders take the reins at the expanded Frick Collection.
Brian Boucher

A Museum for Past and Future: Eleanor H. Gustafson speaks with Nicholas Cullinan, recently appointed director of the British Museum.
Eleanor H. Gustafson

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.
Amanda Breen, Lorna Condon, and Julie Solz
Photographs by Ari Kellerman

On an Alabama farm, a lover of vernacular architecture rescues and reimagines historic log cabins—preserving place, memory, and a powerful sense of home.
Katy Kelleher
Photographs by Robert Rausch

When we lose traditional craftsmanship, we lose knowledge, culture, and the possibility of truly enduring beauty. But, says the founder of Soane Britain, the future is still ours to make.
Lulu Lytle

At Houston’s Rienzi and Bayou Bend, directors Christine Gervais and Daniel Ackermann are
expanding definitions of the house museum—making space for complexity, community, and joy.
Christine Gervais and Daniel Ackermann

From William Morris to the Wiener Werkstätte, the visual language of new London hotel At Sloane dances across centuries—an operatic composition in tiles, textiles, and taste, orchestrated by François-Joseph Graf.
Daniel Lipton

Factum Arte and its preservation-focused foundation use cutting-edge technology to re-create and safeguard cultural heritage, from tapestries to tombs.
Wendy Moonan