MAY/JUNE 2023
Editor’s Letter
Gregory Cerio
Field Notes
On Native Grounds
Elizabeth Pochoda
Current and Coming
Copperware in Oregon ; A free spirit at the Met ; table settings at New York’s Bard Graduate Center ; and an homage to Tiffany at the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, Florida
Curator's Pick
A Winged Wineglass at Winterthur
Leslie B. Grigsby
Field Trip
Dutch Treat: An indoor folly at the Grolier Club hearkens back to the taverns of old New Amsterdam
Eve M. Kahn
Object Lesson
One Simple Trick: On the enduring appeal of puzzle jugs
Benjamin Davidson and Pippa Biddle
Museum Visit
An Educational Étouffée: On the culinary cultural buffet that is the Southern Food and Beverage Museum in New Orleans
Chris Waddington
Farther Afield
Alimentary Athenaeums: A sampler of culinary museums around the world, where food is explored as cultural tradition, as industry, and even as art
Sierra Holt
Art Artifacts
Ars Gratia Libris: The artist-decorated mugs of the Salmagundi Club library
Alexander Katlan and William Eric Indursky
Shop Talk
Second Time Around: Why some antiques and art dealers love it when works they sold once before return to their galleries
Gregory Cerio
Facets and Settings
Library Gems: A roundup of some noteworthy recent books on jewelers and their jewelry
Ruth Peltason
Events
Sierra Holt
Endnotes
Sweet History in Spain
Eleanor H. Gustafson
Features
Dining with Antiques
A hospitality-adept interior designer sets the stage for entertainment occasions at home using antique tableware, silver, and glass from his well-built collection
Bruce Shostak with photographs by Pieter Estersohn
Food for Thought
A current exhibition at the Norton Simon Museum examines the many meanings of the edible in art
Thomas Connors
The Joy of Cookbooks
A cookbook collector catalogues a few of the many volumes that have helped him explore and enjoy the byways of American cuisine
Richmond Ellis
History on the Half Shell
All about the renaissance of the landmark nineteenth-century Brooklyn restaurant Gage & Tollner
Elizabeth Pochoda
Feast for the Eyes
The food paintings of the seventeenth-century Dutch artist Clara Peeters helped bring the still life into maturity as a genre
James Gardner
Hot Stove League
A gallery of six kitchens in historic American homes across the nation
“Beautiful, Useful, and Enduring”
The story of the estimable arts and crafts silver of the Kalo Shop and the principled, indomitable woman at the firm’s helm: Clara Barck Welles
Steven Pakiz with photographs by Richard Nguyen