Marie Antoinette’s canapé à la turque has returned it to its original glory, right down to the hand-embroidered jardin that blooms across its cushions.
Scholar: Feats of Clay
Decorative arts expert Marie-Laure Buku Pongo has taken the Frick Collection’s new ceramics installations under her wing.
Exhibitions: Blast from the Past
Bourbon discoveries on the Bay of Naples in Dallas.
The Woman Who Loved Beautiful Things
Rita Lydig coveted rare art and ravishing antiques to the point of bankruptcy. But her fine-tuned aesthetic sense remained intact until the last penny.
Books: Peak Performances
Hokusai’s Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai, edited by Kyoko Wada
Books: Monuments Man
Nazi-Era Provenance of Museum Collections: A Research Guide by Jacques Schuhmacher
Exhibitions: Divine Messengers
Old World melds with new at the New Mexico Museum of Art.
Books: Edifice Rex
Rosario Candela and the New York Apartment: 1927–1937 by David Netto
Little Briton
At an antiques shop on Madison Avenue, interior designer Michael Simon tells ANTIQUES the lessons he learned from a couture-clad tastemaker.
Root Cause
A Pennsylvania exhibition about the Moravian church’s landscape traditions explores the fertile intersection between spiritual beliefs and garden design.