Magazine September/October 2024


SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2024


Editor’s Letter

Mitchell Owens

Field Notes

Travel

Scholar

Objects

Exhibitions

Books

Mentors

Frontis

Collector and philanthropist Marshall Field V recalls his former Chicago apartment, which was featured in ANTIQUES in 1971
Mitch Owens

Collecting

Jewelry

Events

Sierra Holt

Auctions

Endnotes

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Palazzo Sacchetti, the Room of the Mappamondi by Pierre Bergian (1965–), 2023.


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Features



Up At The Villa

Young Swiss painter Paul Thévenaz traveled to Vizcaya after World War I to create a Tiepolo-style ceiling for a romantic garden pavilion. Today, the weather-worn work—peopled with gamboling putti and Renaissance revelers—has been brilliantly restored, an effort that is also shedding light on the long-forgotten gay artist and his world
Beth Dunlop

Good Ordinary

In a picturesque Dorset village, architect and designer Ben Pentreath lives amid polished Georgian tables, curious Victorian chairs, and romantic Edwardiana that he swears are nothing special. That’s not modesty; that’s the point

Consolation Prizes

An exhibition at Frederic Church’s Olana highlights the nineteenth-century culture of memory and memorial
Elizabeth Pochoda

The Woman Who Loved Beautiful Things

Rita Lydig coveted rare art and ravishing antiques to the point that bankruptcy had to be declared. But the spendthrift’s fine-tuned aesthetic sense remained gloriously intact, until the very last penny
Mitchell Owens

Reine Check

Marie-Antoinette’s 1779 canapé à la turque has been a prized if drearily upholstered presence at San Francisco’s Legion of Honor since the 1950s. Decades of research have recently returned it to the glory that the young queen commissioned, right down to the hand-embroidered jardin that now blooms across its cushions
Eleanor H. Gustafson

Root Cause

As UNESCO honors three Moravian settlements as new World Heritage Sites, a Pennsylvania exhibition about the church’s landscape traditions explores the fertile intersection between spiritual beliefs and garden design
Farrar Lannon and Susan Ellis