Recent issues of The Magazine ANTIQUES have delved into the history and collecting of 20th-century design. The September 2008 article “The lost generation of Danish design” by Gregory Cerio is just one example. For readers interested in learning more about Denmark’s design masters the website Danish-furniture.com offers a fine introduction. The non-commercial website was launched by Dansk Møbelkunst, a Copenhagen-based gallery …
Great Estates: Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site in Cornish, New Hampshire
As the subject of a major exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (on view now through November 15) and a new feature-length documentary directed by Paul Sanderson, Augustus Saint-Gaudens—one of the foremost sculptors of the Gilded Age in America—is certainly having a moment. Adding to these offerings is the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site in Cornish, New Hampshire, where his …
From the Spoon to the City: An architect’s perspective
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s latest exhibition From the Spoon to the City: Design by Architects from LACMA’s Collection highlights great design from the 20th century and explores architects’ passion for designing both buildings and their contents. It includes objects by Frank Lloyd Wright, Marcel Breuer, Rudolph Schindler, Richard Neutra, Michael Graves, and Frank Gehry. The slideshow below …
Celebrating Modernism in Connecticut
Highlighting lesser known modernist works
Rare tables are ‘tops’ at Carlton Hobbs
A new exhibition at the Carlton Hobbs gallery, On Tops: Table Tops from the 2nd Century to the 19th Century, offers a wonderful assortment of tables with some of the most precious and artistic tops ever assembled. Emphasizing extraordinary techniques and materials—from pietra dura (inlay of fine or hardstone) to micromosaic to scagliola (plasterwork in imitation of ornamental stone)—the inventiveness …
Summer in the Adirondacks
An upcoming exhibition at the Adirondack Museum
American Indian painting
A new exhibition at the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian
On Chintz: A Conversation with Rosemary Crill
An interview with Rosemary Crill, senior curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Arts and crafts silver
The art and craft of collecting silver
Make a date with Henry VIII
How the world celebrated the 500th anniversary of King Henry VIII’s accession to the throne