The Magazine Antiques

The Magazine Antiques, the leading publication covering the fine and decorative arts since 1922. In addition to articles drawn upon both European and American material, the bi-monthly magazine has a regular feature focused on the intersection of culture and travel.

The Magazine Antiques

EDITOR’S LETTER

Facing Unpleasant Facts

THE WINTER SHOW • We asked exhibitors at the Winter Show to highlight one exceptional object in their booths and describe it as they might to an interested collector. Here are the things they chose, along with their comments.

Making Icebergs at Olana

In stitches at Colonial Williamsburg

Art of the WPA at the Crocker

Maya gods at the Met

Helen LaFrance at the Speed

Wild Things in Columbus, Ohio

John Craxton’s Sensuous Odyssey • INTREPID VAGABOND AND QUIXOTIC PAINTER, THE BRITISH ARTIST JOHN CRAXTON RECEIVES HIS FIRST SURVEY IN HIS BELOVED GREECE

Son et Lumiere, Twenty-First-Century Style • A VISIT TO AN "IMMERSIVE" ART SHOW IN NEW YORK

Emotion on the Auction Block

Further reading

Art Deco in Jamaica • The richly elegant furniture designs of Burnett Webster

Shadowy Figures • On the Art of Ugo Mochi and other Past Masters of the Animal Silhouette

“The Finest Piece of Walnut Furniture of its Type” • An excerpt from the new book English Furniture 1680-1760, The Percival D. Griffiths Collection examines the famed Dickinson desk and bookcase

A Venetian Master Reconsidered • An exhibition at the National Gallery of Art casts new light on Renaissance artist Vittore Carpaccio

An Arts and Crafts Arcadia • A visit to William Morris’s newly restored country home in Oxfordshire, Kelmscott Manor

Clay, Commerce, and a Free Man of Color • An important new exhibition traces the life and work of Thomas W. Commeraw, free Black potter of early New York

A Labor of Love • Restoring the Daniel Hiester house, an eighteenth-century Pennsylvania gem

EVENTS • EXHIBITIONS SYMPOSIUMS LECTURES

The Very Model of an English Collector • Percival D. Griffiths was passionate about collecting English furniture and needlework, forming one of the most important such private collections of its kind ever at Sandridgebury, his country house in Hertfordshire, England. Equally passionate about riding and hunting, Griffiths was killed in a fall from his horse in 1937. Two years later his extraordinary collection was disbursed, and sold by Christie’s. Now, to the extent pos- sible, it is been re-assembled in a two-volume work to be published in February by Yale University Press. We spoke to Martin P. Levy of H. Blairman and Sons, the august London furniture dealers, and to William (Billy) DeGregorio, needlework specialist, about the project, some ten years in the making.