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.
From The Guest Editor’s Attic – Michael Diaz-Griffith
If you are reading this letter, chances are you’ve already caught the collecting bug—or perhaps, like me, you were born ill with it. If that’s you: welcome. You are among friends.
Books: Silver Standard
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
“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
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
At the Fashion Institute of Technology, designer clothes and accessories evoke the exotic objects coveted by collectors during the Age of Discovery.
Guest Editor’s Letter – Anna Sui
Hear from our March/April guest editor, in her own words.
Cartier: Jeweler of Kings, King of Jewelers
This spring, jewelry lovers visiting the Victoria and Albert Museum in London may have difficulty choosing between the institution’s encyclopedic collection of ornaments and the stunning Cartier exhibition, opening to the public April 12, which features more than 350 objects.
Smoking Hot
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.
Exhibitions: Paperweights on Parade
The Flint Institute of Arts (FIA) in Michigan is the ideal venue for the new exhibition A Symphony of Glass: Paperweights from the Ellis Collection.