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Start with a House, Finish with a Collection
Miller, Leslie Anne, Kirtley, Alexandra
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Description for Start with a House, Finish with a Collection
Hardcover. Reveals the world of art collecting from home. Num Pages: 272 pages, 500 col. BIC Classification: AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 302 x 40. Weight in Grams: 2168.
Start with House, Finish with a Collection is the story of how a couple's use of American art and antiques evolved from furnishing a house into a full-blown passion for collecting. Featuring exquisite examples of Hollingsworth and Morris family furniture, Weber boxes, Pennsylvania clocks and Kirk-Stieff silver, as well as American paintings by the Peale family, Edward Hicks, Edward Redfield and Horace Pippin, this museum-calibre collection reveals a pride in the early American sensibility. The combination of text and extraordinary photographs traces this remarkable journey and demonstrates that life can be more than comfortable living among these collections. The compendium ... Read more
Start with House, Finish with a Collection is the story of how a couple's use of American art and antiques evolved from furnishing a house into a full-blown passion for collecting. Featuring exquisite examples of Hollingsworth and Morris family furniture, Weber boxes, Pennsylvania clocks and Kirk-Stieff silver, as well as American paintings by the Peale family, Edward Hicks, Edward Redfield and Horace Pippin, this museum-calibre collection reveals a pride in the early American sensibility. The combination of text and extraordinary photographs traces this remarkable journey and demonstrates that life can be more than comfortable living among these collections. The compendium ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Scala Arts Publishers Inc.
Condition
New
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857599190
SKU
V9781857599190
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Miller, Leslie Anne, Kirtley, Alexandra
Leslie Anne Miller, a Philadelphia attorney and community leader, has been collecting American art and antiques with her husband Richard Worley for more than 25 years. Alexandra Kirtley is The Montgomery-Garvan Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Reviews for Start with a House, Finish with a Collection
A stunning armchair house and garden tour in all seasons...the book is hard to put down.
M.A.D. Staff "Maine Antique Digest, July 2014 "
M.A.D. Staff "Maine Antique Digest, July 2014 "