From 1901 to 1906, a small furniture shop in Rose Valley, Pennsylvania, produced a trickle of pieces that looked back, looked forward, and yet were entirely of their time.
Pharm to Table
Yale’s American Furniture Study Center moves to a new home in a former Bayer laboratory.
An Eliphalet Chapin High Chest, Explained, at the Wadsworth Atheneum
“Every part [is] mathematically related to every other part, and visual complexity accumulates step-by-step.”
Into the Future at the George Read II House
A nineteenth-century manse in Delaware is getting up to speed with the twenty-first century
At the 2019 Delaware Antiques Show
The Delaware Antiques Show is in full swing at the Chase Center on the Riverfront in Wilmington, Delaware, where it runs through Sunday.
Take Note: New York’s Merchant’s House Museum
The Merchant’s House in New York City is a federal, state, and city landmark that dates from 1832 and contains an excellent collection of fine and decorative art. ANTIQUES spoke with Margaret Halsey Gardiner, who’s been its director for nearly thirty years.
Highland Fling
A strikingly original new hotel in Scotland marries contemporary art and traditional furnishings
Agra Culture
Today, the World Monuments Fund announced the completion of four years’ conservation work on two gardens in Agra, India.
How modern architecture came to Miami Beach
In 1933 Florida Governor David Sholtz wrote that the states various exhibits at Chicago’s Century of Progress exposition were “but the ‘Show Rooms of the state,'” adding, we further invite you to visit the ‘Play Ground of the Nation.'” The Florida Tropical House, constructed for the Home and Industrial Arts Group section of the exposition and built alongside ten other homes on the shores of Lake Michigan, was one such showroom.
Glazing points
A pair of reverse-painting-on-glass miniatures offers new insights into the work of early American portrait artist Benjamin Greenleaf