Four generations on, the furniture-making Eilersen family continues to strive for improvement
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
Object Lesson: All About the Windsor Chair
The work begins with the riving of logs
Museum Visit: Parlor Room Talk
In New Orleans, an intact Antebellum decor tells the tales of many lives, free and enslaved
Taking Inventory: A Scholarly Appetizer of Scallops
A taste of the research to be found in the author’s forthcoming catalogue of early American furniture at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Wendell Castle and His Influences at R and Company
The work of sculptor and furniture designer Wendell Castle is being shown at New York’s R and Company gallery.
Pierre Cardin fashion and furniture at the Brooklyn Museum
In his fashion work, designer Pierre Cardin sought to remake the human body in his sculptural ideal.
Living with Antiques: Antilles Grace
An elegant town house on the island of Saint Croix features an exemplary collection of nineteenth-century West Indies–crafted mahogany furniture
Philadelphia Stories
Introducing a new section in which curators discuss ongoing research projects and other collection notes. First up, Alexandra Kirtley of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Boston baroque
Upholstery for an early easy chair