September/October 2025


SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2025


Guest Editor's Letter

Pieter Estersohn

In Conversation

Lessons from the disaster and subsequent restoration at Boscobel House and Gardens in Garrison, New York.

Objects

The Birth of the Travel Memento: The Grand Tour began as a way for young men of means to see Europe, and resulted in the invention of what became modern tourist souvenirs.
Benjamin Davidson and Pippa Biddle

Flea Bite

Our first-ever column dedicated to flea markets, with a new find featured each issue. First up: the history of the "bleu de travail" jacket.
Christine Hildebrand

Hidden Gems

Drawings and a print by Andy Warhol come to light.

Perspectives

Mitch Owens on the appeal of visible collection storage and Elio Baez-Estersohn on learning to appreciate his artistic upbringing.

The Obscure Connoisseur

A new serial column on collectors and collecting.
Ralph Gardner Jr.

Exhibitions

Marie Antoinette's style on display in London and the sensational paintings of  Tanya Minhas in New York.

Books

The Family of Migrants from Hannibal Books, The World of Peter Dunham from Vendome, Women Architects at Work from Princeton University Press, and The Birth of Art Deco from Rizzoli.

Museum Visit

Lyndhurst celebrates America's first "starchitect", and the Princeton Museum reopens.

Endnotes

Look again! Alexandra Alevizatos Kirtley of the Philadelphia Museum of Art reexamines one of the most common motifs in Western classical art and decoration -- the thyrsus.
Eleanor H. Gustafson

Image
The Gothic revival photographic studio of Carlos Relvas (1838–1894), in Golegã, Portugal. The Magazine ANTIQUES has asked September/October guest editor Pieter Estersohn to share his photography with us in this issue, including a series of images from the Relvas Casa Estudio, featured on pages 160–173. Look closely for an Easter egg secretly embedded in the cover. Do you know what, or who, is looking back at you?


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Features



Haute Take

A world of couture comes alive in the collection of editor Hamish Bowles.
Amy Fine Collins, with Hamish Bowles

Patina and Provenance

Designer Charlotte Moss on the charm of antique chairs and how the spirits of their collectors linger.
Gerald Bland, with Charlotte Moss

A Model of Good Taste

A UNESCO World Heritage site since 1987, Jefferson's Academic Village at the University of Virginia exemplifies a philosophy of "chaste" design for educational institutions.
Noah Duell

Diamonds in the Rough

The venerable Abel and Mary Nicholson House isone of the most pristine examples of an early Anglo-American building.
Ralph Harvard

Past and Present

An eightieth anniversary retrospective of the magnificent Palladin Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum and Gardens in New York.
Carswell Rush Berlin

The Rare, Beautiful, and Bizarre

Jacopo Etro--an heir to the eponymous design house--seeks comfort in the disquieting as he builds a global collection for his Puglian palazzo.
Christopher Mason

The Classical Language

A conversation between architects Norman Askins and Steven Spandle.
Steven Spandle and Norman Askins, with Brandy S. Culp and Michelle Ried Moody

Double Exposure

From the bullfighting ring to the atelier, Portuguese photographic pioneer Carlos Relvas constructed an early studio every bit as eccentric as his life.
Pieter Estersohn, with Mario de Castro