Period rooms have always told stories. The question is—whose? ⬬
Valley Culture
Organized to celebrate the fifth anniversary of Historic Trappe’s Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, Valley Culture: Constructing Identity Along the Great Wagon Road explores the evolution of Pennsylvania German folk art as settlers moved west. ⬬
Exhibitions: Body Language
An exciting new exhibition awaits at Historic Deerfield in Massachusetts.
The Patient Collector
With modest means and fifty-five years of persistence, a Maine state employee built a remarkable collection—and a legacy— one or two objects at a time.
From The Guest Editor’s Attic – Michael Diaz-Griffith
If you are reading this letter, chances are you’ve already caught the collecting bug—or perhaps, like me, you were born ill with it. If that’s you: welcome. You are among friends.
Books: Silver Standard
Beautifully produced and informative, Wiwen Nilsson is the first English-language monograph on the Swedish silversmith, designer, jeweler, and sculptor Karl Edvin Nilsson.
Books: Digging the Modern Garden
“I have great admiration for ways in which landscape architecture can lend understanding of a historic house,” says author Beth Dunlop.
Exhibitions: Frames in Focus
You may think the frame is an afterthought compared to the painting it contains—added by the purchaser to hold the art and attach it to the wall—but historically frames have been designed and made by notable architects, master sculptors, and artist-gilders.
Endnotes: Walk-in Closet of Curiosity
At the Fashion Institute of Technology, designer clothes and accessories evoke the exotic objects coveted by collectors during the Age of Discovery.