Coup de foudre: Why I’m restoring an ancestor’s Louisiana home
Ceramics dynamic
The only thing more remarkable than John Bullard’s studio pottery collection is how quickly he became a connoisseur of the field.
Cajun and Creole, the rough and the fine
Over the past ten years Wade Lege has rescued some of the disappearing landmarks of his native Louisiana, beginning with a group of Acadian cottages and culminating in the ongoing restoration of a Greek revival house originally from Kismet plantation. Wade Lege sold an early nineteenth-century armoire to pay for his architectural Moby Dick. With the proceeds, he got forty-five …
Seeing green at historic garden estates
Although it may already seem like summer—with record-breaking temperatures in some areas this week—spring has actually just arrived, and with it, the chance to explore some of the country’s finest historic estates and gardens. Here The Magazine ANTIQUES has selected a few favorites, with the slideshow below offering a taste of some “green design.” The Fells, Newbury, New Hampshire The …