To a plain Mahogany Cradle
There is only one known image of Anne Cadwalader, John and Elizabeth Cadwalader’s first-born child. She sits on Thomas Affleck’s mahogany card table, the carvin...
Tag: furniture
A Case Cover for a Chair
With a brief, sort-of-break from school, I have time to think about the research and making I’ve done recently, if “recently” can encompass the past two-ish yea...
Fashionable Furniture, or, The Glories of the Past
include window drapes. Every now and then, someone argues with me that the historic house where I work would not have had window curtains or drapes. Sometimes t...
Why Do We Buy Things?
The Sunday, November 9th Guardian had a series of short articles on collecting, including one on why people collect things. This was similar to the New York Tim...
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