The story of Montgeoffroy is bound up with the individual for whom it was built: Louis Georges Érasme, marquis de Contades.
Editor’s Letter–May/June 2020
For weeks now, the staff of The Magazine ANTIQUES has been sheltering in place, in the now-familiar phrase.
Changes at Classical American Homes
Margize Howell and Peter Kenny have both retired as co-presidents of the trust, a post they shared since 2015
The Visual Poetry of Abigail Tulis
A former collaborator of architect Peter Pennoyer, Tulis makes work that’s in dialogue with the past “not just artistically, but spiritually and mystically”
New Collector: Watercolors (From our Archives)
Whether a landscape, still life, or figural composition, watercolors appeal to collectors because of their subtlety, translucence, and freshness and also because of their abundance.
Collector Profile: Will Shortz (From our Archives)
Shortz inhabits, challenges, rejoices in, and expands the universe of puzzles
New Collector: Posters (From our Archives)
Poster art was born of two technological developments
New Collector: Of etchings and Edward Hopper (From our Archive)
What collector of American art, new or experienced, would not relish owning a work by Edward Hopper?
Painting With Fire (From our Archives)
The story of modern enameling in this country begins in the industrial heartland of the Midwest, amid blazing steel mills, smoky oil refineries, and congested railroad yards.
Simple and artistic, Simple and good
Assessing the best of the Saturday Evening Girls’ Paul Revere Pottery