The Magazine Antiques articles from May 2005

The Magazine Antiques archives from May 2005

The Indians' most versatile tool.(Current and coming)(Mocotaugan: The Story and Art of the Crooked Knife)
May 1, 2005... Thousands of years ago, no one knows where, an ingenious person invented the ultimate multipurpose tool--the drawknife. Around 1500 the Woodlands Indians of northeastern North America, who had been using stone tools, were introduced to iron by...

The arts and crafts movement, here and abroad.(Current and coming)(The Arts and Crafts Movement in Europe and America, 1880-1920: Design for the Modern World)
May 1, 2005... The arts and crafts movement evolved in England around the turn of the twentieth century as a philosophical reaction to the dehumanizing aspects of the industrial revolution and mass production. In the hands of gifted architects and designers...

American Quilts.(Current and coming)(Shelburne Museum)
May 1, 2005... The Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont, has one of the most important collections of American bedcovers in this country. Most of the more than four hundred quilts that comprise the museum's holdings were made in the nineteenth century....

Museum accessions.
May 1, 2005... When the director and chief executive officer at the Winterthur Museum in Winterthur, Delaware says, "this is without question the most important acquisition Winterthur has purchased since the death of... Henry Francis du Pont," it must be...

June fairs in London.(Report from Europe)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... June is London's high season for art and antiques enthusiasts when six fairs take place and important auctions are held to take advantage of the influx of visitors from all over the world. On June 9, three fairs open at Olympia. The Fine...

Are you sitting comfortably?(Report from Europe)(The English Regional Chair)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... In 1964 the furniture historian Bernard D. Cotton, who specializes in the vernacular tradition, bought a chair. This led to the acquisition of nearly four hundred others, all made by regional English makers. Cotton then researched the history...

Circling the Square.(Report from Europe)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... In 1744 the Imperial Porcelain Factory was founded in Saint Petersburg as the private property of the Romanov family, and the bulk of its production supplied the family and the members of their court with fine porcelain for their palaces and as...

Cotman bicentenary.(Report from Europe)(John Sell Cotman)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... John Sell Cotman was born in Norwich in 1782 and went to London in 1798 to become an artist. Over the next few years he traveled in Britain and made annual visits to Yorkshire from 1803 to 1805. The following year he settled in the city of his...

Mother Russia.(Books about antiques)(Great Private Collections of Imperial Russia)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... To celebrate the three hundredth anniversary of the founding of Saint Petersburg in 1703, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City proposed an exhibition of the private collections of imperial Russia. Wish lists were drawn up after...

Queries.
May 1, 2005... COLONIAL FRENCH WEST INDIAN FURNITURE, including pieces demonstrating English, Dutch, or Spanish influences, is the subject of a forthcoming book. Anyone owning photographs, illustrations, or written records of such furniture, as well as...

Early Georgian Interiors.(book by John Cornforth)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Early Georgian Interiors By John Cornforth MA-291 Our price $85.00 The late John Cornforth, long a highly regarded architectural editor for the British magazine Country Life, has provided a wide-ranging look at English houses...

Made in China: Export Porcelain from the Leo and Doris Hodroff Collection at Winterthur.(book by Ronald W. Fuchs II and David S. Howard)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Made in China: Export Porcelain from the Leo and Doris Hodroff Collection at Winterthur By Ronald W. Fuchs II and David S. Howard MA-292 Our price $50.00 This beautifully produced volume highlights more than one hundred...

Ming Furniture in the Light of Chinese Architecture.(book by Sarah Handler)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Ming Furniture in the Light of Chinese Architecture By Sarah Handler MA-293 Our price $50.00 This is the first book to treat the close relationship between Chinese buildings and the furniture created to appoint them. Handler...

East Anglian Silver 1550-1750.(book by Christopher Hartop)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... East Anglian Silver 1550-1750 Edited by Christopher Hartop MA-294 Paper covers Our price $24.95 East Anglia in England has a long history as a center for the making of silver of excellent quality. Between 1500 and 1750...

Antique Tools and Instruments from the Nessi Collection.(book by Claudine Cartier, Alessandro Cesati and Marie-Veronique Clin)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Antique Tools and Instruments from the Nessi Collection By Claudine Cartier, Alessandro Cesati, Marie-Veronique Clin, and others MA-295 Our price $75.00 The exquisitely produced volume with dramatic photographs treats tools...

International Arts and Crafts.(edited by Karen Livingstone and Linda Parry)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... International Arts and Crafts Edited by Karen Livingstone and Linda Parry MA-296 Our price $75.00 Following enormous exhibitions on the art nouveau and art deco styles, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London recently opened...

White Salt-Glazed Stoneware of the British Isles.(book by Diana Edwards and Rodney Hampson)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... White Salt-Glazed Stoneware of the British Isles By Diana Edwards and Rodney Hampson MA-297 Our price $89.50 Salt-glazed stoneware was first made in the early sixteenth century in the Westerwald region of Germany. By the...

The British Stable.(book by Giles Worsley)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... The British Stable By Giles Worsley MA-298 Our price $75.00 Before the early twentieth century, horses were an essential element of life on the enormous working estates of the English gentry. Stables built to house them...

The Shipcarvers' Art: Figureheads and Cigar-Store Indians in Nineteenth-Century America.(book by Ralph Sessions)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... The Shipcarvers' Art: Figureheads and Cigar-Store Indians in Nineteenth-Century America By Ralph Sessions MA-299 Our price $75.00 Shipcarvers were highly skilled artisans who were responsible not only for the figureheads that...

The Arts and Crafts Movement in Europe and America: Design for the Modern World.(book by Wendy Kaplan )(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... The Arts and Crafts Movement in Europe and America: Design for the Modern World By Wendy Kaplan with others MA-300 Our price $60.00 This beautiful volume, written in conjunction with a large traveling exhibition organized by...

Folk Furniture of Canada's Doukhobors, Hutterites, Mennonites and Ukrainians.(book by John Fleming and Michael Rowan)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Folk Furniture of Canada's Doukhobors, Hutterites, Mennonites and Ukrainians By John Fleming and Michael Rowan MA-301 Our price $60.00 Between about 1870 and 1930 enormous numbers of Europeans emigrated to Canada, among them...

Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art.(book by Barbara J. MacAdam )(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art By Barbara J. MacAdam with others MA-302 Our price $60.00 The Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New...

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-2005: 200 Years of Excellence.(book by Mark Hair, Michael Lewis and Stephen May)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-2005: 200 Years of Excellence By Mark Hair, Michael Lewis, Stephen May, and others MA-303 Our price $80.00 The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia is the oldest...

People of the River: Native Arts of the Oregon Territory.(book by Bill Mercer)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... People of the River: Native Arts of the Oregon Territory By Bill Mercer MA-304 Our price $49.95 This is the first publication to examine the artistic output of the Indians who lived along the lower Columbia River from the...

The Tudor House and Garden: Architecture and Landscape in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries.(book by Paula Henderson)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... The Tudor House and Garden: Architecture and Landscape in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries By Paula Henderson MA-305 Our price $65.00 Henderson discusses English Tudor and early Stuart country houses within the...

Calendar.(Calendar)
May 1, 2005... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures Arizona PHOENIX Phoenix Art Museum: "In Monet's Light: Theodore Robinson at Giverny"; to May 8.* California BERKELEY Berkeley Art Museum,...

Antiques.(Philadelphia)
May 1, 2005... The grand complaint with laborers among us is that we do not pay them sufficient prices for their work. A plain reason may be assigned for this; we consume too little of their manufactures to keep them employed the whole year round; their...

Newport and the Townsend inheritance.(John Townsend)
May 1, 2005... In the June 1937 issue of this magazine the editor, Homer Eaton Keyes (1875-1938), published an article about a group of pieces of Newport furniture with a history of descent from John Townsend. (1) Keyes hypothesized that they could be the...

Living with antiques: a Federal collection.
May 1, 2005... In 1990 a young couple sold their loft in New York City and moved to the suburbs. They had decorated the loft with contemporary art and furnished it with modern design, but the new house called for something more traditional. Having decided...

Moorish fretwork furniture.(Biography)
May 1, 2005... Twist ornamentation on furniture has been in existence for centuries, but not until the nineteenth century could it be mass produced by machine. These ropelike spiral turnings were often called "barley twist" for an English confection made with...

Edward Holmes and Simeon Haines, cabinetmakers in Empire New York City.(Biography)
May 1, 2005... Through the eyes of a cabinetmaker in the 1820s, New York City must have surely resembled a paradise of opportunity. Cheap immigrant labor, myriad patrons willing and able to purchase furnishings in the newest styles, and the opening of the...

Early American furniture in the New Castle Historical Society in Delaware.
May 1, 2005... The New Castle Historical Society in Delaware was founded in 1934, three years after a group saved the Amstel House, an early eighteenth-century brick structure named in honor of New Amstel, which was renamed New Castle in 1665. (1) Another...

The 1772 Philadelphia furniture price book rediscovered.(The 1772 Philadelphia Furniture Price Book: A Facsimile)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... The printed version of the 1772 Philadelphia Pricea of Cabinet and Chair Work, the size of a postcard, is a once in a lifetime find. Its paperboard ends covered with marbleized paper (see Pl. Ia) enclose thirty-six well-worn pages of laid rag...

Calendar of shows.(Calendar)
May 1, 2005... May 13-18, 2005. New York, NY. THE INTERNATIONAL FINE ART FAIR. Seventh Regiment Armory, Park Avenue at 67th Street, New York. Daily 11 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Sunday 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Paintings, drawings and sculpture from the Renaissance to the 1960's by...

Garden accessories by Wright.(Design notes)(Frank Lloyd Wright)(Nichols Brothers)
May 1, 2005... Frank Lloyd Wright's reverence for nature (which he always spelled Nature) was a critical element in his architectural designs. He sited his buildings on the most interesting and hospitable piece of land and calculated the most impressive views...