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Creative idleness in the eighteenth century
When I was a child, the dusty dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City used to hypnotize and terrify me simultaneously....
Magazine Antiques, 09/01/06 by Alfred Mayor · More from publication -
Help for the fixer upper
British how-to books assume a profound knowledge of everything they teach, which can be either intimidating or challenging depending on your...
Magazine Antiques, 08/01/06 by Alfred Mayor · More from publication -
Dollhouses
Flora Gill Jacobs began collecting dollhouses in 1945, and soon thereafter she started writing books about them. In 1975 she established the...
Magazine Antiques, 06/01/06 by Alfred Mayor · More from publication -
New England and the China Trade
In 1793 the Qianlong emperor of China wrote to George III of England: "We possess all things. I set no value on objects strange and ingenious, and...
Magazine Antiques, 05/01/06 by Alfred Mayor · More from publication -
The colonial revival
Richard Guy Wilson, introducing this book of essays about the colonial revival movement in the United States, writes: "What does Colonial Revival...
Magazine Antiques, 04/01/06 by Alfred Mayor · More from publication -
New England
The Encyclopedia of New England has 1,564 pages, of which 12 are devoted to the contributors, three columns to a page. Thirty-one editorial...
Magazine Antiques, 03/01/06 by Alfred Mayor · More from publication -
Black Victorians
During the nineteenth century certain blacks stood out against the monochromatic melancholy of slavery: Frederick Douglass, George Washington...
Magazine Antiques, 02/01/06 by Alfred Mayor · More from publication -
Frontiers of collecting
Jewelry containing tiny photographs and fantastical cases now empty of the visiting cards they once contained are frontiers of collecting that have...
Magazine Antiques, 01/01/06 by Alfred Mayor · More from publication -
Visiting card cases
No one pays calls any more, whether to drop off their visiting card or actually stay for a visit. For this reason visiting cards and their fanciful...
Magazine Antiques, 01/01/06 by Alfred Mayor · More from publication -
Shopping in the old days
In Florence in 1575 the rumored birth of a male heir to grand duke Francesco de' Medici caused all the shopkeepers to pull down their shutters for...
Magazine Antiques, 12/01/05 by Alfred Mayor · More from publication
