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Designer Style: Designing with Antiques & Fine Art
Spring 2005
In this issue, we feature Brown•Davis Interiors, the design team of Robert Sidney Brown and Todd Dyer Davis. Their projects have included President and Senator...
The Rewards of Discipline
Spring 2005
An unassuming stone house belonging to a couple in the Mid-Atlantic region of the country contains a remarkable collection of American furniture, tribal rugs, and...
A Fancy for Color and Design: A Collection of Pennsylvania Folk Art
Spring 2004
Objects are identified with the region in which they were made. They reflect the cultural traditions and training of resident craftsmen and the aesthetic preferences of
Bordeaux, Boats, & Botero: The Passions of Collector William Koch
Summer 2003
The roll call is impressive: Degas, Modigliani, Rodin. This personal collection encompasses impressionist and postimpressionist masterpieces, western paintings and sculpture, antiquities, maritime art and antiques, and, most recently, Native American obje
A Collector's Collector
Early Summer 2003
The Oxford English Dictionary defines a collector as someone who "collects or gathers together...specimens, works of art, curiosities...[and] items of interest because of [their] excellence, rarity, etc." It would be much more efficient to simply refer th
Lifestyle: Patria in Vermont
Spring 2003
American antiques have been a passion for Norman and Mary Gronning since their introduction to them in Buffalo, New York, in the 1960s. As newlyweds just beginning their careers as teachers, the couple sought a way to supplement their income and decided t
An Estate Worth Knowing
3rd Anniversary
If you have ever wondered about the person behind the nation’s two major design centers, and what his
Through the Photographers Eyes
3rd Anniversary
It seems only natural for a professional photographer to collect prints of iconic images, which is precisely what Nathan Benn has done since 1972 when he started working for National Geographic Magazine.1
Exotic Furniture from the English Islands
Autumn 2002
In the epoch of Caribbean history when its economy flourished largely due to its sugar cane crops, the plantation great houses and urban...
Art Decodence
Holiday 2002
Bostonian John Axelrod's Home is Chock-Full...
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