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 …
Endnotes: Boston needlework
We were prepared to pay considerably more, so were happily surprised,” says American needlework dealer Carol Huber about her successful bid on this charming Boston canvas-work picture, offered at the first auction of American furniture and decorative arts held by Bonhams in New York in mid-January. When she saw it in the catalogue, she thought the presale estimate of $6,000 …
Wedgwood in the nineteenth century
Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Wedgwood ceramics manufactory