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You can only imagine what the china connoisseur in Edward Lamson Henry’s 1889 A Lover of Old China might think upon encountering a plate made by one of the three contemporary artists shown here. A Lover of Old China by Edward Lamson Henry (1841-1919), 1889. Oil on academy board, 14 by 12 inches. Shelburne Museum, Vermont. We, on the other …
December 2009 | November 1915. On “one of those autumn days when the darkness comes so suddenly that one seems to bump one’s head against it,” a small party departs from an unnamed city. Wrapped in furs and nestling into blankets, they huddle in the back of the open car to ward off the chill. Soon paved roads give way …
An exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt reminds us that we’ve always fetishized beautiful homes
An exhibition looks at the silver objects made for British households by Indian craftsman
The legendary decorator Frances Elkins made it popular in the 1930s, but her so-called loop chair goes back to the eighteenth century as a surviving set of examples attests