More than just a display of handsome pictures, Rescued, Restored, Reimagined: New York’s Landmark Interiors, an exhibition at the New York School of Interior Design (to April 24), tells the stories behind a variety of landmark interiors that have been preserved throughout the city. It includes familiar sites such as Radio City Music Hall, but focuses primarily on the more …
Maynard Parker’s modern architecture & interior photography
The Huntington Library recently launched a new online database that makes accessible the archives of Los Angeles-based architectural and garden photographer Maynard L. Parker (1901-1976). Parker contributed images to many of the nation’s premiere home design publications from the late 1930s through the early 1970s including House Beautiful, Architectural Digest, Better Homes & Gardens, and Sunset. He traveled across the …
This Week’s Top Lots: July 25 – 31
* The top lot of the July 25 auction of science, technology, dolls and toys at Skinner Boston was a circa 1865 walnut astronomical clock by E. Howard that sold for $195,525 (estimate $175,000-200,000). Other notable sales included a pair of Newton library globes that sold for $74,063 (estimate $30,000-40,000), a miniature carved and painted wooden ship’s figurehead that sold …