Benjamin Miller talks with Paul Becker, the fifth-generation owner and director of Chicago-based Carl Becker and Son.
Curious Objects: Treasures of the Winter Antiques Show, Part 2
Part two of our special coverage of the 2018 Winter Antiques Show, featuring conversations with eight dealers of furniture, folk art, embroidery, and more.
Curious Objects: Treasures of the Winter Antiques Show, Part 1
Benjamin Miller speaks with nine dealers who exhibited this past January at the antiques world’s marquee event: the Winter Antiques Show
Curious Objects: Wade Lege on Mistakes Collectors or Restorers Make
Independent collector Wade Lege on mistakes collectors and restorers make.
Curious Objects: Wade Lege’s Advice for New Restorers
Independent collector Wade Lege offers advice to new restorers
Curious Objects: Historic Preservationist Wade Lege on Living in a Collection
Independent collector Wade Lege on restoring a Mississippi bayou home and filling it with Americana.
Curious Objects: Wartski expert Katherine Purcell on René Lalique and Poetry in Jewelry
In the third episode of The Magazine ANTIQUES’ podcast Curious Objects, host Benjamin Miller interviewed Katherine Purcell, principal in the London jewelry firm Wartski. A peerless scholar and an engaging storyteller, Purcell gives us the particulars on a magnificent enameled necklace by René Lalique, the “genius of art nouveau jewelry.”
Curious Objects: Dealer Stuart Feld: An “Expert in Everything” and an early American linen press
Benjamin Miller caught up with Hirschl & Adler Galleries president Stuart Feld in this second episode of The Magazine ANTIQUES’ podcast Curious Objects. In question was a Boston-made neoclassical linen press, which served as entry point into a discussion about provenance and the more general ins-and-outs of antiquing.
Curious Objects: Michael Pashby on effects the Internet has had on antiquing
Benjamin Miller, host of The Magazine ANTIQUES’ podcast Curious Objects, interviewed Michael Pashby of Michael Pashby Antiques about a Windsor chair with interesting history. In this excerpt, Miller and Pashby discuss how the Internet has affected collectors and buyers.
Curious Objects: Michael Pashby on mistakes collectors make
Benjamin Miller, host of The Magazine ANTIQUES’ podcast Curious Objects, interviewed Michael Pashby of Michael Pashby Antiques about a Windsor chair with interesting history. In this excerpt, Miller and Pashby discuss mistakes that collectors make.