Throughout the fair, we’ll bring you selections of what’s on offer. Today: Bravura Booths, Part 2
Highland Fling
A strikingly original new hotel in Scotland marries contemporary art and traditional furnishings
Curious Objects
Sign up for our newsletter and get Curious Objects right to your inbox This Week on Curious ObjectsListen to Curious Objects on these platformsPatreon || Spotify || Soundcloud || Apple PodcastsCheck out our newest episode here.Host Ben L. Miller is an antiques dealer, owner of the eponymous Curious Objects gallery, and specialist in silver and storytelling objects. He is also the …
Pastoral Imperfect
A current exhibition examines American art old and new through the lens of the environment
Going Wilde
Brooklyn Museum curator Barry Harwood creates his own personal period rooms in an aesthetic movement Shangri-la In the Hudson valley
Boston baroque
Upholstery for an early easy chair
A double anniversary at Reynolda House
Barbara Babcock Millhouse answers some question about her grandparent’s home, now the Reynolda House Museum of American Art.
Melting pot modern
Creating an American style in the 1920s.
Growing Interests: Expanding the collections at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
In 1926 John D. Rockefeller Jr. formally embarked on the project that would become the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation by purchasing Philip Ludwell’s house of about 1775 on Duke of Gloucester Street. That acquisition, the first “antique” in Colonial Williamsburg’s collection, came to play a pivotal role in the founding of what would eventually be the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum.
A charmed life
English inspiration, American creativity, and a bit of historical luck are joined in the author’s house and gardens Several years ago English friends came for lunch at my house, now called the Gordon-Banks house, in Newnan, Georgia, some forty miles southwest of Atlanta. They walked down a wide hallway onto a porch that overlooks a terrace and what the English …