The Patient Collector

Amanda Breen, Lorna Condon, and Julie Solz Photographs by Ari Kellerman Art

With modest means and fifty-five years of persistence, a Maine state employee built a remarkable collection—and a legacy— one or two objects at a time.

Books: Silver Standard

Sarah D. Coffin Art

Beautifully produced and informative, Wiwen Nilsson is the first English-language monograph on the Swedish silversmith, designer, jeweler, and sculptor Karl Edvin Nilsson.

Books: Digging the Modern Garden

Christine Hildebrand Art

“I have great admiration for ways in which landscape architecture can lend understanding of a historic house,” says author Beth Dunlop.

Exhibitions: Frames in Focus

Lynn Roberts Art

You may think the frame is an afterthought compared to the painting it contains—added by the purchaser to hold the art and attach it to the wall—but historically frames have been designed and made by notable architects, master sculptors, and artist-gilders.

Endnotes: Walk-in Closet of Curiosity

Eleanor Gustafson Art

At the Fashion Institute of Technology, designer clothes and accessories evoke the exotic objects coveted by collectors during the Age of Discovery.

Smoking Hot

Maggie Lidz Art, Furniture & Decorative Arts

Are Ozempic-thinned celebrities bringing you down? So what else is new? A century ago another form of appetite suppressant caught fire among females in the smart set—nicotine. As hourglass figures were supplanted by boyish frames, slim became the new ideal and smoking provided the means to get there.