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
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.