October 2009 | “Chicago is the only American city I have seen where something absolutely distinctive in aesthetic handling of material has been evolved out of the industrial system” – C. R. Ashbee During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Chicago stood at the crossroads of the handcrafted and the machine-made, aspects that came to define the American arts …
The American Campeche chair
Invented in ancient Rome, the Campeche chair was a favorite of Thomas Jefferson during the American neoclassical period and still serves as a symbol of political power
The Butterfly Man of New Orleans
On the most significant form of colonial French furniture made in the Americas
America in 3 by 5
Walker Evans’s ability to locate drama in the matter of fact began with his passion for the picture postcard
George Harvey’s Anglo American atmospheric landscapes
The American watercolor views of George Harvey