Thanks to the Center for Painted Wall Preservation a group of early nineteenth-century New England murals found a new home at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
Crazy Eight
Second Empire France—ruled by Napoleon III from 1852 to 1870—bequeathed a varied and colorful legacy, especially in matters of architecture.
Craftsman Home
The house in California built by the great studio woodworker Sam Maloof is a hymn to the virtues of the made by hand
Bent Pennies
Remembering a collector who celebrated beauty born of human frailty
“So snug and nice”
A visit to Osborne House, Queen Victoria’s beloved seaside refuge
Living with Antiques: Antilles Grace
An elegant town house on the island of Saint Croix features an exemplary collection of nineteenth-century West Indies–crafted mahogany furniture
Saving Cradles of the Civil Rights Movement
At about the midway point between Selma and Montgomery, in White Hall, Alabama, a one-story cottage—hardly more than a shack—squats on cinder blocks.
Rokeby: The past is present
In an excerpt from his new book, Life Along the Hudson: The Historic Country Estates of the Livingston Family, Pieter Estersohn examines the rich legacy of one of America’s great houses.
Going Wilde
Brooklyn Museum curator Barry Harwood creates his own personal period rooms in an aesthetic movement Shangri-la In the Hudson valley
Talks, Tours, Cocktails, and a Treasure Hunt
How The Magazine Antiques spent Memorial Day weekend in Hudson, New York