A trophy and a missing cup up for auction at Skinner
The 17th Annual Newport Symposium: A Great Escape
The Preservation Society of Newport County celebrates their 17th annual symposium
Seeing green at historic garden estates
A selection of our favorite gardens
National Trust lists America’s most endangered historic sites for 2009
The most endangered historic places in the U.S.
Failed design at the Bard Graduate Center
On the Failed Design conference at Bard Graduate Center
This Week’s Top Lots: April 19 – 24
Top Lots in the world of antiques
Old master and nineteenth century drawings
Works from the Held collection
Arts and crafts silver
The art and craft of collecting silver
Queries: Paper lined bed testers
Cybèle Gontar and Stephen Harrison are writing an article on paper-lined bed testers. Decorative wallpapers have traditionally been placed on walls, ceilings, and folding screens. Less commonly, wallpapers were also used to cover valances and ceilings of bedsteads in the late eighteenth century. Bed and window valances covered with paper were advertised by Francis Delorme, a French immigrant craftsman in …
Make a date with Henry VIII
How the world celebrated the 500th anniversary of King Henry VIII’s accession to the throne