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Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Furniture & Decorative Arts”

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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Taking Inventory: A Scholarly Appetizer of Scallops

Alexandra A. Kirtley May 22, 2020 Furniture & Decorative Arts

A taste of the research to be found in the author’s forthcoming catalogue of early American furniture at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

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Figures in a landscape: sculpture in the British garden (From our Archives)

GERVASE JACKSON-STOPS May 19, 2020 Furniture & Decorative Arts

No English country-house garden would be complete without the well-placed statue terminating a vista

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Treasury Notes (From our Archives)

Elizabeth Pochoda May 15, 2020 Furniture & Decorative Arts

With a boost from Broadway, the caretakers of Hamilton Grange cast new light on the charms of Alexander Hamilton’s once bucolic home

Alexander HamiltonHamilton GrangeThe National Park Service

Silver Stories from S. J. Shrubsole

Editorial Staff April 3, 2020 Furniture & Decorative Arts

The folks at the eminent New York gallery have responded to the challenge of the coronavirus much like the Florentines in The Decameron did to the Black Plague: by telling stories

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What Picasso inspired in Prague: The brief, bold flourishing of Czech cubist design and architecture (From our Archives)

Rosalind Pepall April 2, 2020 Furniture & Decorative Arts

The zigzag angles, the break in the line of a chair leg, or the dark stained wood immediately attract your attention to Czech cubist furniture.

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History in Towns: Grafton, Massachusetts (From our Archives)

William Nathaniel Banks, Photography by Paul Rocheleau March 31, 2020 Furniture & Decorative Arts

The town of Grafton, in east central Massachusetts, effectively encapsulates the history of New England.

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Teviotdale: Martha Washington Slept Here

Pieter Estersohn March 27, 2020 Furniture & Decorative Arts

Teviotdale has fascinating historic roots, but there have been numerous practical challenges to maintaining the house over the years.

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