So Asia, and Africa, ~ Europa, with America; ~ AIl Four, in Consort
join’d shall Sing ~ New Songs of Praise to Christ our King.
Queries: Paper lined bed testers
Cybèle Gontar and Stephen Harrison are writing an article on paper-lined bed testers. Decorative wallpapers have traditionally been placed on walls, ceilings, and folding screens. Less commonly, wallpapers were also used to cover valances and ceilings of bedsteads in the late eighteenth century. Bed and window valances covered with paper were advertised by Francis Delorme, a French immigrant craftsman in …
The Worsham-Rockefeller rooms
Two Gilded Age rooms make their way to the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Endnotes: April’s fool
Laura Beach wraps up our April issue
The Butterfly Man of New Orleans
On the most significant form of colonial French furniture made in the Americas
Servitude and Splendor
The craftsmen and carved furniture of the Rappahannock River valley, 1740 to 1780
Sleeping beauties
Beds offered at Bonhams sale of American furniture
Maison Gerard at 35
Join us in our celebration of the 35th anniversary of Maison Gerard
A new setting for Iliad Antik
On the new Iliad Antik gallery
Time Flies: A daylight savings reminder
This 18th century cartel clock from the Horace Wood Brock collection, featured in the March issue of ANTIQUES, aptly depicts the fleeting nature of time, is particularly appropriate this Sunday, when are clocks, now mostly digital, are turned ahead one hour. Brock’s stunning collection is a reminder of an age when instruments of timekeeping were not just practical necessities, as …