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Early Protective Covers for Upholstered Furniture: Fit, Fabric, and Applicability to Today's Interiors
Visitors to museums or historic houses, as well as readers of home décor catalogues or shelter magazines, may have noted the increasing prevalence of slipcovers on chairs and sofas. Removable coverings for upholstered furniture have a long history of use,...
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Early Colonial Furniture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum began to form a collection of American furniture of the colonial and early federal periods almost exactly one hundred years ago. The driving force behind this effort was Henry W. Kent, assistant to Robert W. de Forest, the...
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The Worlds of Frederic Edwin Church
When, in 1855, Frederic Edwin Church began to exhibit his paintings of the South American landscape, based on his first voyage there two years earlier, he was quickly recognized as America's greatest landscape painter, heir to that identification achieved...
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Lifestyle: Connecticut Pastoral
In most discussions about collections of antiques, the objects are the focus of attention. But in this instance, the collection includes the structures that house it as well. The five historic buildings that comprise this home were moved to the site in th...
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...Seven Holes: The Story of a Serendipitous Find
"It's beguiling, it may be American, and it may even be eighteenth century." My wife, Judy, made these comments a number of years ago. She was referring to a portrait of a young man that she saw hanging on a wall in an antiques shop in Woodbury, Connectic...
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