What the editors of The Magazine ANTIQUES are looking at this week
Rhode Island Rescues
An excerpt from a new book describes the genesis of the Preservation Society of Newport County
A Man of Parts: The house and collection built by the visionary director of the Wadsworth Atheneum
Understanding the house means understanding the man who created it, the man who at twenty-seven became acting director of the Wadsworth Atheneum and made the country’s oldest public art museum the most talked about arts institution in the country.
Art and industry (From our Archives)
In suburban Philadelphia, art and industry are joined in a residence commissioned in 1901
They all slept here (From our Archives)
Furnishing the interiors of a historic house should strike a delicate balance
At home in modernism: The John C. Waddell collection of American design (From our Archives)
Waddell’s New York City apartment is filled with striking examples of American design from between the wars
Living with Thomas Jayne (From our Archives)
Jayne describes what he does as “collage decoration”
A Charmed Life (From our Archives)
English inspiration, American creativity, and a bit of historical luck are joined in the author’s house and gardens
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Zimmerman House (From our Archives)
The house on the corner of Heather and Union Streets in Manchester, New Hampshire, is surprising
Spirit Feel: A New Orleans Collection (From our Archives)
This is a house frequently visited by curators- more than thirty international institutions have borrowed objects from the Davis collection-but newcomers are excused if they double check the address upon arrival