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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 …
Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Wedgwood ceramics manufactory
Generations and regenerations of White House decor
Furniture of southeastern Massachusetts, 1710 1850
Adherents to the studio craft movement championed the handmade object, the idiosyncratic form, and the individual eye
An insider look at the Winterthur Ceramics Conference
On the pieces by Eileen Gray in the YSL/Bergé collection at Christie’s
Although the name of Edward F. Caldwell may be unfamiliar to some, the lighting fixtures made by his eponymous firm grace some of the best known public and private architectural commissions of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the United States. Caldwell and his partner, Victor F. von Lossberg, a Russian artist he met while working at Archer …
Deeply colored rugs have often been doctored with acid washes… a practice Pap finds equivalent to defacing a fine painting
Taken for granted for decades, Stickley furniture finally attracted interest from major museums