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Henry Francis du Pont and iron. (Winterthur).(collection of iron decorative arts at Winterthur Museum)
The Magazine Antiques
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January 01, 2002 |
Fennimore, Donald L. |
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It would be easy to spend a full day viewing the period rooms at the Winterthur Museum and come away not remembering having seen a single piece of iron. This is not because there is no iron in the collection, but rather because Henry Francis du Pont (see p. 154, Pl. I) felt that period rooms would "show America as it had been" much better and more accurately than galleries with objects in cases and on pedestals. (1) In his mind, this meant bringing together in reconstructed antique architectural spaces thematically contextually, and proportionally consistent artifacts of all types to create three-dimensional environments that presented life in the past. The importance of ...
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