| 2008 Winter Antiques Show Loan Exhibition: The Shaker Museum and Library -- Seeking Perfection: The Shakers' Material World |
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The Shaker Museum and Library, Old Chatham, New York, holds the most significant collection of Shaker materials in the world. With more than half obtained directly from Shakers, the collection exhibits remarkable original finishes and detail, superb quali...
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| 53rd Washington Antique Show: Inspirations from the Garden |
8th Anniversary
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The Washington D.C. area is rich in garden history and an appreciation of all things botanical. In memory of First Lady and conservationist Lady Bird Johnson (1912-2007), "Inspirations from the Garden" is the theme of the 53rd Washington Antique Show. The...
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| Abraham Parsell, Miniature Painter |
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Little is known about the painter Abraham Parsell (1791-1856), whose miniature portraits on ivory continue to charm us today. He produced small, mostly oval portraits housed within a chased metal pendant style frame, often with a small oval aperture on th...
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| Art Focus: Artists of the Fourteenth Street School |
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The term "Fourteenth Street School," originating in the early 1950s, refers to a group of New York painters who, during the 1920s and '30s, continued the tradition established by the Ashcan School a generation earlier of realistically portraying everyday...
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| Designer Style |
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People find an "eclectic environment" comforting, in the opinion of hipster hotel owner/designer Eric Goode, who along with business partner, Sean MacPherson, has proven his point with the success of their antique-laden Bowery and Lafayette House hotels i...
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| Early Colonial Furniture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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The Metropolitan Museum began to form a collection of American furniture of the colonial and early federal periods almost exactly one hundred years ago. The driving force behind this effort was Henry W. Kent, assistant to Robert W. de Forest, the...
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| Early Protective Covers for Upholstered Furniture: Fit, Fabric, and Applicability to Today's Interiors |
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Visitors to museums or historic houses, as well as readers of home décor catalogues or shelter magazines, may have noted the increasing prevalence of slipcovers on chairs and sofas. Removable coverings for upholstered furniture have a long history of use,...
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| Fine Art as an Investment: Edward Henry Potthast (1857-1927) |
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A painter of appealing impressionist works, Edward Henry Potthast (1857-1927) is best known for his cheerful and vibrantly colored beach scenes -- two of which broke previous auction records for the artist by each selling for $1,384,000 in the spring of...
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| Green Your Home with Antiques: Going Green in the Eighteenth Century -- Understanding Original Windsor Furniture Color |
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Much of the recent research into the colors used in eighteenth-century American Colonial interiors has revealed a brighter color palette than the muted tones made popular in the Colonial Revival period. New methods of paint analysis have uncovered evidenc...
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| In the best taste: Sévre-style Minton ÿby Amy Gale |
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Victorians admired eighteenth-century Sévres porcelain, but authentic pieces were hard to come by. Even wealthy collectors were challenged (in the words of the 4th Marquess of Hertford) to find something "in a perfect state & most positively ol...
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