Subscribe to The Magazine ANTIQUES today! And sign-up for our newsletter! SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2020 Editor’s LetterGregory Cerio Critical Thinking/Difficult IssuesA More Perfect Union Glenn Adamson Current and ComingGarden openings, slavery and women’s suffrage in Nantucket, and Girlhood in Washington, DC Farther AfieldOff the Piazza, Another World: Celebrating a Venetian institution, Caffè Florian at 300 James Gardner Object LessonThe Sculpture of Meta Vaux …
Off the Piazza, Another World
Celebrating a Venetian Institution, Caffè Florian at 300.
Shop Talk: Folk Tales, Favorite Finds
Spring going on Summer 2020: a season of no shows, no fairs, no fun at all for those of us who love the touch of antique objects
Art and industry (From our Archives)
In suburban Philadelphia, art and industry are joined in a residence commissioned in 1901
This Week’s Destinations for Digital Culture: July 22 to 28
How to engage with the arts on your phone or laptop
A Charmed Life (From our Archives)
English inspiration, American creativity, and a bit of historical luck are joined in the author’s house and gardens
New Light: Notes on a Vermont Schoolgirl Embroidery
Vermont? Especially rural, north-central Vermont? Vermont hardly figures in the standard literature on schoolgirl needlework
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
The Virginia Dulcimer (From our Archives)
For generations of Virginia musicians, dulcimer (or dulcimore) has described a family of instruments with three characteristics
Figures in a landscape: sculpture in the British garden (From our Archives)
No English country-house garden would be complete without the well-placed statue terminating a vista