Subscribe to The Magazine ANTIQUES today! And sign-up for our newsletter! SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2025Guest Editor’s Letter Pieter Estersohn In ConversationLessons from the disaster and subsequent restoration at Boscobel House and Gardens in Garrison, New York. ObjectsThe 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 …
A New Home for American Classicism
For decades, Kelly and Randall Schrimsher have acquired the best of the best in early nineteenth-century American furniture. Now, much of their collection has a period-appropriate showcase in Charleston, South Carolina.
Personality and Purpose
Collecting American furniture continues at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Magazine May/June 2024
Subscribe to The Magazine ANTIQUES today! And sign-up for our newsletter! MAY/JUNE 2024Publisher’s Letter Don Sparacin Field NotesNature’s Child Elizabeth Pochoda Current and ComingThe Met’s reinstalled Wang Galleries; sculptors Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Daniel Chester French in conversation; American paintings at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Maynard Dixon’s Nevada; Venetian glass in Virginia; O’Sullivan’s Old West at the Speed; and …
Toasts and Testimonials
A collection of tributes, memories, comments, and reflections in honor of our 100th anniversary
Quaker Hautes – A review of the new catalogue: American Furniture, 1650–1840: Highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Kenny discusses the arrival of an engaging and beautifully made book by Alexandra Kirtley
Magazine March/April 2021
Subscribe to The Magazine ANTIQUES today! And sign-up for our newsletter! MARCH/APRIL 2021 Editor’s LetterGregory Cerio Critical Thinking/Difficult IssuesWorks of Faith Glenn Adamson Current and ComingWomen photographers at the High Museum, American Impressionists at the Dixon Gallery, Magic Realism at the Georgia Museum, and more Personal SpaceA Tennager Talks about Art AppreciationCaroline Summerfield Kirtley Object LessonHenry Chapman Mercer and His Moravian …
Superfluity & Excess: Quaker Philadelphia falls for classical splendor (From our Archives)
By the middle of the eighteenth century the “greene Country Towne” founded by William Penn in 1682 was bustling with commercial and social activity
Disruptive influences in Philadelphia
This fall the Philadelphia Museum of Art presents two exhibitions about art and artistry that upended the cultural apple cart—albeit in vastly different times, places, ways, and contexts. September 3 saw the debut of Classical Splendor: Painted Furniture for a Grand Philadelphia House—a showcase for a suite of furnishings designed by the architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe and fabricated in …
Superfluity & Excess: Quaker Philadelphia falls for classical splendor
The fruits of extensive research on Benjamin Henry Latrobe’s 1808 house and furniture for William and Mary Waln begin with their impact on the aesthetic of the city itself
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