
- 162 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
IN THIS BOOK we have brought together treasures from the past and a wealth of ideas for their use and enjoyment in the present. Like The ANTIQUES Treasury of Furniture and Other Decorative Arts published in 1959, to which it is a companion, this volume is full of information about antiques, but while the previous volume concerned itself with the collections of seven great American museums, this is devoted to American private homes. It makes no recommendations as to what should be done, but it shows what has actually been done by some of America's most discriminating collectors to bring beauty and also a sense of stability and continuity into their homes. For to these collectors living with antiques does not mean living in the past: it means preserving and enjoying the best of the past in order to add an extra dimension to the present.
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Table of contents
- Title page
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Color plates
- LIVING WITH ANTIQUES
- Eighteenth-century comfort and charm
- Town house in New York
- Shaker simplicity
- Heirlooms on Long Islandâs North Shore
- New England farmhouse on the Ohio
- Cosmopolitan collection in Connecticut
- Ten generations in Salem
- Historic house in Germantown
- Continuing tradition in Newport
- English elegance in Milwaukee
- Collectorâs choice
- Three hundred years of American craftsmanship
- French provincial in New England
- Edward Hicks heirlooms
- Period pieces and paneled rooms
- Connecticut salt box
- Lakeside pavillon
- Seventeenth-century manor house
- Family heirlooms in New Jersey