Debbie Mathews LeRoy of Debbie Mathews Antiques & Designs in Nashville offers insightful, practical guidance on weaving antiques into modern interiors. ⬬
Objects: French Conversation Seating
How French conversation seating—from settees to tête-à-têtes—balanced fashion, etiquette, and the spectacle of wealth. ⬬
The Obscure Connoisseur
PART V: In which the author is awakened to the splendor of his vintage bathrooms.⬬
Exhibitions: Dressed to Express
Is fashion art? If your answer is “no,” you likely haven’t seen the work of Elsa Schiaparelli. ⬬
Renaissance Replica
Sent unexpectedly by a friend, a cobalt-blue footed cup holds a backstory steeped in Italian Renaissance history. ⬬
In All Its Greatness
Monticello’s Great Clock reveals how Jefferson used timekeeping, sound, and design to regulate labor and extend control over enslaved Black lives. ⬬
“The Self-Cleaning Woman”
Through her visionary self-cleaning house, Frances Gabe embraced technology to empower women at home. ⬬
Elizabeth Hubbart’s Gold Thimble
Inside the world of a female merchant in early Boston. ⬬
Exhibitions: Spinning a web
In Navajo (Diné) weaving tradition, women are the artists—their ancestors were taught to weave by a foremother, the Spider Woman, with whose silk the universe itself came into being. ⬬
Everything is Sculpture
Isamu Noguchi saw art not as something separate from life, but embedded in the playgrounds, gardens, and spaces people move through every day. ⬬