Where the Sun Rests
What do you do when you see a sundial in a garden? Do you try to tell the time? Or approach it as an archaic object best used as a drinks stand?
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Journal — Magazine Antiques
The Writing Of...Seating For When You Want Be Overheard
The whole affair began as a maneuver to reduce the tyranny of the bustle—at least, that’s what we were told.
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The writing of...Chewed Paper
"There’s that classic question: if you replace the pieces of a boat board by board, at what point is it a new boat? A similar question could be asked of nineteenth-century papier-mâché furnit...
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The Writing Of...Hoisting the Flag (J/F 2026)
When kicking off 2026, then, it made sense to focus on the strongest, most globally recognized, symbol of our nation: the flag.
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The writing of...Carousel Horses (N/D '25)
Writing this piece and interviewing carousel experts and dealers was a joyful journey through a field grounded in joy.
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The Writing of...The Birth of the Travel Memento
Call us magpies, and you wouldn't be far off. For the September/October 2025 issue of the Magazine ANTIQUES we examined collecting as an art through the frame of the rise of the European Grand Tour.
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The Writing of...Blowin' in the Wind and Whirligigs (MagAnt July/August 2025)
We can all use a little whimsy these days, after all, and whirligigs hold a fascinating past. Invented as fun yard ornaments and tourist souvenirs, whirligigs were often carved by fishermen in the...
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The Writing of...String Theory (May/June 2025)
Do you know what a salterio is? Really, do you?
Well, we aren't surprised. We hadn't either when Michael Diaz Griffith brought the idea of writing our May/June 2025 Object column on a musical instr...
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The Writing of...Masters of Disguise (Tea Caddies, Antiques J/F 2025)
With tea caddies as our jumping off point, we knew we had to zoom in closer. The form is so varied — from Chinese porcelain caddies to European wood to American metal — that writing about them all ...
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