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Auction Notes: Gems on the Block

Editorial Staff January 9, 2021 Furniture & Decorative Arts

Specialists from auction houses around the country tell us about choice lots in their upcoming sales

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Personal Space: Synapse Judgment

Shirley M. Mueller November 23, 2020 Furniture & Decorative Arts

A neuroscientist ponders the collecting impulse.

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When the Bauhaus came to Monte Albán (From our Archives)

JENNIFER REYNOLDS-KAYE August 20, 2020 Furniture & Decorative Arts

To many, the Alberses were the embodiment of forward-thinking modernity. And yet, to a surprising degree, they were inspired by ancient art.

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Cajun and Creole, the rough and the fine (From our Archives)

Chris Waddington August 18, 2020 Furniture & Decorative Arts

Over the past ten years Wade Lege has rescued some of the disappearing landmarks of his native Louisiana

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Farther afield: The Young and the Youngs

Elizabeth Pochoda July 31, 2020 Furniture & Decorative Arts

How a London gallery promotes a dialogue between historical and contemporary art

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Looking both ways: A Pennsylvania collection keeps present and past in constant touch (From our Archives)

Alexandra Alevizatos Kirtley July 23, 2020 Furniture & Decorative Arts

“My husband said the house screamed for antique furniture–but I have a hard time with sameness.”

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Superfluity & Excess: Quaker Philadelphia falls for classical splendor (From our Archives)

ALEXANDRA ALEVIZATOS KIRTLEY June 30, 2020 Furniture & Decorative Arts

By the middle of the eighteenth century the “greene Country Towne” founded by William Penn in 1682 was bustling with commercial and social activity

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The (America) House that Mrs. Webb Built (From our Archives)

BELLA NEYMAN June 9, 2020 Furniture & Decorative Arts

Aileen Osborn Webb (Mrs. Van­derbilt Webb) came from a family of art patrons

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Object Lesson: All About the Windsor Chair

Benjamin Davidson and Pippa Biddle June 8, 2020 Furniture & Decorative Arts

The work begins with the riving of logs

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Seventeenth-century French enameled watches in the Walters Art Gallery (From our Archives)

Philippe Verdier June 3, 2020 Furniture & Decorative Arts

In his book Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers, F. J. Britten notes that “watches with enamel painting before 1640 are exceedingly rare”

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