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
Living With Antiques: The Kentucky collection of Sharon and Mack Cox (From our Archives)
Step into Sharon and Mack Cox’s house in Richmond, Kentucky, and your eye might land first on the large stone fireplace at the end of their open living room
Frank Discussions at the Currier Museum
The Usonian Automatic was the last residential building type that Frank Lloyd Wright devised in his more than seventy-year career, and only seven of these small, “affordable” houses were ever built.
At Home in Cuba with Ernest Hemingway
The writer is revered in his adopted homeland, and his country house outside Havana has been preserved
in near-pristine condition.
Rubbish-bound Murals go instead to Museum
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