@fineobjectssociety is hosting a weekend retreat at Midwood Estate in New York’s Hudson Valley exploring the future of decorative arts. This immersive experience will draw together a community of collectors, curators, designers, and dealers to explore the evolving field of antiques in a rapidly changing world. Join us! October 11-13.
You’re invited to the public launch of FINE OBJECTS SOCIETY, a new community focused on the future of the decorative arts, and the opening of PLEASE TOUCH.
Hosted by the quality home design firm Henrybuilt, and featuring exceptional historic objects from FINE OBJECTS SOCIETY members presented for you to touch, pick up, and turn over.
FINE OBJECTS SOCIETY is an association of forward-thinking professionals and enthusiasts who share a devotion to fine handcrafted historic objects. We see a strong future for the discipline which looks different from its past. We believe paying attention to fine handcrafted historic objects is delightful, rewarding, revealing, and crucial. Understanding them, valuing them, caring for them, and giving them life is the essential work of people across numerous fields. Our calling is to encourage that work, support the people who do it, and advance public interest in it.
^see link in bio!^
> swipe > to see a time-lapse vid of this Shaker chair retape project… yes, it’s a tedious process — podcasts and snacks are essential. This beauty is off to its new home but dm me if you’re interested in acquiring a comparable rocker — I have another one lurking just off camera!
No. 7 production Shaker Rocking Chair (with cushion rail instead of finials), Mount Lebanon, NY. c. 1900. #theshakers #shakerchair #americana #youngantiquarianclub #chairtapersunion #materialculture #shakerstyle #shakerdesign
💙 Prussian blue pigment + linseed oil + calcium carbonate + more linseed oil + Japan drier = handmade historic paint 💙 the color of heaven
demo thanks to historic paint specialist (and badass 💪) @esanchezgoodwillie with @brece_honeycutt who contextualized Shaker color theory
#shakerstyle #theshakers #shakerdesign #historicpreservation #shakercollectorsweekend
Scenes from a Shirley, MA, where two Shaker buildings — a former North Family office turned K-9 unit, and a former South Family shop turned union meeting HQ — are in dire need of restoration. Does anyone out there want to move two Shaker buildings and restore them? They’re small(ish)! #wip #ruinporn #theshakers #shakerdesign #shakerarchitecture #oldhouselove #oldhouses #historicpreservation
“Those granted with the gift of seeing more deeply can see beyond form, and concentrate on the wondrous aspect hiding behind every form, which is called life.”
- Hilma af Klint, 1906
@_tatemodern_
Home from 🇬🇧 but still haunted by the ideas and images of #hilmaafklint … particularly the botanical taxonomies interwoven with spiritualist imagery — celestial maps, messages, and landscapes reminiscent of the Shaker visionary artworks I’ve spilled so much ink over in the past year but, truthfully, cannot tell you what they’re about 🤷♀️ 💫
#hilmaafklint #tatemodern #spiritualism #spiritualist #shakergiftdrawing #theshakers #shakerdesign
Finally home but still processing the last ten days in Miami… This was a surprise — Wharton Esherick’s staircase from the Curtis Bok house (1935) installed @wolfsonian (the epic fireplace and doorway from the Bok house are at @philamuseum )
#whartonesherick #deanofamericancraftsmen #artsandcraftsmovement #studiocraft #curtisbokhouse #wolfsonianmuseum #miamiartweek
If you listen until the end you can enjoy my mini-rant about cults! Apparently @objectiveinterest records idle chitchat like the exceptional journalist and historian he is. Lesson learned.
But, truly: listen and support Curious Objects @antiquesmag on Apple, Spotify, and Patreon! These guys do incredible work — it was a delight to collaborate.
(And, my apologies to the @sabbathdaylakeshakervillage — I really didn’t intend to address this — Ben baited me by bringing up nxivm and I bit hard. 😬🤦♀️🤷♀️)
