| Furniture from Batavia and the Cape |
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The exhibition Domestic Interiors at the Cape and in Batavia, 1602-1795 is the first to examine the domestic interiors and furniture of the Dutch adventurers and fortune seekers who settled in Batavia (today's Jakarta, Indonesia) and at the Cape...
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| Lily of the Valley Inlay |
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Inlay is the art of...
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| Partiotic Taste: Collecting Modern Art in Ancien Regime Paris |
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In Paris, during the final decades of the Ancien Régime-between the start of the Seven Years' War in 1756 and the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789-a new type of collector emerged: one devoted to the art of his patrie (fatherland). Into the first...
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| Pride of Place: Architecture in American Textiles |
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A charming and accessible way to appreciate American architectural history is to explore textile folk art that contains images of buildings. For centuries, folk artists have refined and elaborated on the nostalgic, iconic allure of our architectural past,...
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| Punch Bowls & Patriotism: The Rediscovery of the Varick Punch Bowl |
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Described as...
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| The Charleston Double Chest |
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The form that best epitomizes colonial Charleston, South Carolina furniture is the double chest (Fig. 1). The primary piece of case furniture in the homes of affluent Charlestonians, it was used for the storage and safekeeping of clothing, textiles, and v...
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| The Furniture of Charleston 1680-1820 |
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While most books published in the decorative arts field consist of catalogues raisonnés of exhibitions or collections, The Furniture of Charleston, 1680-1820, constitutes the most in-depth study of the cabinetmaking trade of one American city...
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| The Shelburne Museum: Selections from the |
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Challenged to describe the unique and eclectic museum she had created, Shelburne Museum founder, Electra Havemeyer Webb (1888-1960), coined the phrase...
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| The Washington Associtaion of New Jersey |
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As Henry A. Ford (1793-1872), a Morristown, New Jersey, lawyer approached the end of his life, he faced a dilemma. What was to become of his ancestral home (Fig. 1), the place that had served as George Washington's military headquarters during the Contine...
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| Through the Photographers Eyes |
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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...
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