Last Thursday, I was formally baptized into the world of antiques at New York City’s Antiques Week, anchored by its headlining event: The Winter Show. ⬬
Patina and Provenance
Designer Charlotte Moss on the charm of antique chairs and how the spirits of their collectors linger. ⬬
September/October 2025
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 …
Udotopia
Maverick, villain, libertine, genius. Austrian eyewear designer Udo Proksch has been known by many names, but the book excerpted here dives deeply into his archive, puts emphasis on his working methods, fecund productivity, and the undeniable impact he had on design in the twentieth century—and to this day.
Books: Treasure House
John Soane’s Cabinet of Curiosities (Yale University Press, $45) certainly lives up to its title. For starters, it’s a visual delight, leading readers through the haunting, eclectic maze of a London relic: a house museum, frozen in amber since 1837, that displays its trove of forty thousand objects in arrangements fixed by the architect and collector who bequeathed it to the nation.
Making Faces
Federal American Vernacular Portraits, 1790s to 1840s.
The Joy of Cookbooks
A cookbook collector catalogues a few of the many volumes that have helped him explore and enjoy the byways of American cuisine.
New Light: More on Federal Bostonians and Their London Jeweler, Stephen Twycross
A continued study on the work of English jeweler Stephen Twycross.
Clay, Commerce, and a Free Man of Color
An important new exhibition traces the life and work of Thomas W. Commeraw, free Black potter of early New York.
Through the Looking Glass
On the Victorian era’s fascination with microscopes and all they revealed