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ANTIQUES: One For Your Bookshelf

Nov 13 2015

Over the years of dealing art and antiques, I have worked with many old home restorationists. They are a very particular lot, fascinating in their degree of commitment to a vision of recreating something from the past. No person ever so perfectly exemplified that than Richard Hampton Jenrette, which is why no antiques collector should[…]

Oct 30 2015

Once, many years ago, I knew a restoration architect (Let’s call him “Bob”) who was also an avid collector…of nothing in particular. He lived in a sprawling Victorian mansion in New York that could barely be seen from the street through the tangle of vines and unkempt hedges. The paint was peeling and the plaster[…]

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