In this episode of Curious Objects, host Benjamin Miller chats with photographer, junk collector, and former creative director of Ralph Lauren—Mary Randolph Carter.
Behind Closed Drawers
At the Kravet archive in Woodbury, Long Island, tens of thousands of textile samples from around the world are assiduously catalogued and preserved, serving both as a comprehensive record of sewn, woven, embroidered, and printed design history, and as inspiration for contemporary makers.
Accessions: Horse Sense
The Kimbell Art Museum’s director discusses a fine specimen from George Stubbs’s Mares and Foals series recently added to the collection.
Best in Glass
Two longtime friends and colleagues in their passion for American decorative arts discuss a major acquisition to mark the hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Met’s American Wing.
Jewelry: Family Jewels
In the mid-twentieth century Italian designer Aloisia Rucellai remade antique adornments to meet modern standards of taste.
Living with antiques: Domestic Arrangements
In the bijou New Orleans apartment that decorator Thomas Jayne shares with his husband Rick Ellis, old things provide the bright backdrop to a gracious existence.
Field Notes: Sniffing the Zeitgeist
On visiting the Old Print Shop in New York, where lessons for the present abound in printed images from America’s political past.
Guest Editor’s Letter
It is an honor to serve as guest editor for this issue of The Magazine ANTIQUES while my long-time friend Mitchell Owens is on the mend. I suppose I got the gig because I am an antiquarian and decorator who weaves history into people’s lives—which I think is much the same goal as this magazine’s.
Exhibitions: Immortal Thread
The venerable tradition of French tapestry weaving, which has provided adornments for palace walls since medieval times, is brought to contemporary life in a new exhibition at the Clark Art Institute.
Art of the Deal
One among only a handful of European woman art dealers, Berthe Weill assisted in establishing the careers of some of the towering figures in modern art.