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Organized to celebrate the fifth anniversary of Historic Trappe’s Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, Valley Culture: Constructing Identity Along the Great Wagon Road explores the evolution of Pennsylvania German folk art as settlers moved west. ⬬
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.
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.
Imagine walking along your downtown street, ready to spend an afternoon shopping. But as you’re glancing into shop windows, you don’t see wool sweaters or cotton dresses—instead, it’s all paper.
Maverick, villain, libertine, genius. Austrian eyewear designer Udo Proksch has been known by many names, but the book excerpted here dives deeply into his archive, puts emphasis on his working methods, fecund productivity, and the undeniable impact he had on design in the twentieth century—and to this day.
Unable to stop a spear but singularly effective at getting people to stop and stare, metal mesh handbags were all the rage at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Erstwhile colonial seat and mid-century destination for the Hollywood elite, San Juan is a city where rich food, good times, and reminders of the past are always just around the corner—nowhere more so than at the Caribe Hilton.
It may be worth noting on the fortieth anniversary of one of the treasures of the American antiques business, that the portraits, painted furniture, weathervanes, and quilts they purvey at Olde Hope Antiques are, in an important sense, emblems of the owners’ belief in bedrock values of our democracy.
For decades, Kelly and Randall Schrimsher have acquired the best of the best in early nineteenth-century American furniture. Now, much of their collection has a period-appropriate showcase in Charleston, South Carolina.
A fantasia in ceramic, Leighton House in London testifies to the decorative sense of its namesake builder, artist Frederic Leighton, and the craftsmanship of William De Morgan.