Editor-in-Chief Elizabeth Pochoda introduces the latest issue of ANTIQUES
This Week’s Top Lots: March 30 – April 3
* Monday’s sale of photographs at Christie’s New York, which totaled over $1.5 million with 71% of the lots sold, brought few surprises—most works were sold within their estimates. The top lot was a Robert Mapplethorpe Cala Lily from 1988 that was sold to a European collector for $122,500 (estimate $100,000-150,000). Richard Avedon’s iconic Dovima with Elephants, Evening Dress by …
Amish Quilts and Recent Acquisitions at the Textile Museum
The Textile Museum’s recent acquisition of Amish Quilts
Fabergé at home and abroad
Stunning examples of fabergé
Art Nouveau Jewelry
The innovative techniques and unusual materials of art nouveau jewelry
The Butterfly Man of New Orleans
On the most significant form of colonial French furniture made in the Americas
Servitude and Splendor
The craftsmen and carved furniture of the Rappahannock River valley, 1740 to 1780
Sleeping beauties
Beds offered at Bonhams sale of American furniture
Philadelphia
Philadelphia is a city of great character and great contrasts: blue-blooded and blue collar; home of the beaux arts and the Broad Street Bullies; as steeped in history as it is in Tastee Cakes. In today’s Philadelphia, au courant fashion shops nestle next to dealers in exquisite art and antiques. In April the City of Brotherly Love celebrates its long …
Portrait miniatures in the New Republic
How America found its face