The Magazine Antiques articles from December 2005

The Magazine Antiques archives from December 2005

Silver in the spirit of modernism.(Current and coming)(American silver)(Modernism in American Silver: 20th Century Design)(The Architect and the Industrial Arts)
December 1, 2005... Modernist, Modern American, and Sky-scraper are three of the names given to silver or silverplate patterns or objects made in the United States in 1928. These names reflect the conscious effort of American silver manufacturers to break with the...

Impressionists painting labor.(Current and coming)
December 1, 2005... Despite the declaration made in 1883 by the American impressionist Theodore Robinson that American life was for the most part "unpaintable," many of his contemporaries found endless potential in depicting Americans at work and at leisure,...

Silver in Georgia.(Current and coming)(Sideboard to Pulpit: Silver in Georgia)
December 1, 2005... The earliest known silver object made in Georgia is a diminutive stud measuring less than an inch in diameter that was made for a cloak or coat. It bears the distinctive mark of Freidrich Wilhelm Muller who worked in the town of Ebenezer,...

Museum accessions.
December 1, 2005... During its relatively brief existence in the late nineteenth century, the Tile Club was an informal but exclusive social and artistic organization made up primarily of American illustrators, painters, sculptors, and journalists, who met weekly...

The East in the West.(Report from Europe)(exhibitions)
December 1, 2005... Three museums, two in England and one in the Netherlands, have exhibitions on view or shortly to open that examine cultures completely outside the European sphere. Until January 8, 2006, the British Museum in London has on display a show...

Shopping in the old days.(Books about antiques)(Shopping in the Renaissance: Consumer Cultures in Italy, 1400-1600)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... 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 the day "because of their worries that the plebians would act according to their custom and put...

Calendar.(Calendar)
December 1, 2005... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures Alabama MONTGOMERY Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts: "Collecting the Impressionists: Masterpieces from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute...

Antiques.(Biography)
December 1, 2005... The history of empires is, indeed, the history of men, not only of the nominal rulers of the people, but of all the leading persons who exerted a sensible influence over the destinies of their fellow-creatures, whether the traces of that...

Franklin's legacy: documented furnishings.(Benjamin Franklin)
December 1, 2005... No residence closely associated with Benjamin Franklin (PL II) has survived on American or French soil. His family house on Milk Street in Boston, the several houses he rented in Philadelphia, and the mansion house he built there in 1764 (in a...

Coaching prints: winter perils on the road.(Royal Mail coaches)
December 1, 2005... Every evening at about seven-thirty crowds began assembling outside the General Post Office to watch the departure of the Royal Mail coaches. It was one of London's "sights." Some twenty-seven mail coaches, their paintwork buffed, their teams...

Restoring the stained glass in Saint Michael's Church, Charleston.
December 1, 2005... The division of Charleston, South Carolina, into two parishes in 1751 necessitated the building of Saint Michael's Church over the course of the next decade or so. Its sophisticated profile was fashioned by artisans most likely equipped with a...

Successful innovations in domestic oil lighting, 1784-1859.(Cover Story)
December 1, 2005... Primitive lamps, which relied on capillary action to deliver oil or melted fat up a wick to the flame, were improved only marginally in form and material over many centuries. Of the oils available prior to breakthroughs in fuel technology in...

Travel guide.(Directory)
December 1, 2005... ALABAMA Fairhope BETTY G. HAYNIE ANTIQUES & FINE ART, 15 North Section St., 36532. Offers a fine selection of American, English, and French furniture, also ceramics, silver and 19th century paintings; located in downtown Fairhope, a...

Calendar of shows.(Calendar)
December 1, 2005... December 8-12. New York, NY. ANTIQUES & FINE ART AT THE ARMORY. For the first time, the Fine Art Dealers Association (FADA) and 55 quality international dealers of antiques, decorative arts, jewelry, and more, from the 17th to 21st century,...

Carpet cleaning and restoration.(Design notes)(Kent-Costikyan)(Company Profile)
December 1, 2005... More than a century ago, in 1884, S. Kent Costikyan left his native Turkey for the United States. In Constantinople (now Istanbul) his father had developed a rapport with the missionaries stationed there and he decided to send his son to...