Living with Antiques: A Treasury of Private Homes in America Vol. II

By Alice Winchester

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Barakaldo Books
• Release date: May 3, 2021
• ISBN: 9781839746956

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LIVING WITH ANTIQUES

EDITED BY

ALICE WINCHESTER

Vol. II

A treasury of private homes in America

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS 5

Georgia plantation 6

Mr. and Mrs. Henry D. Green, Madison, Georgia 6

Lifetime collection 15

Mrs. J. Stogdell Stokes, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania 15

Continental craftsmanship 25

Mrs. Lesley G. Sheafer, New York City 25

Philadelphia furniture in Bucks County 30

Mr. and Mrs. Hiram D. Rickert, Yardley, Pennsylvania 30

Selectivity and sentiment 40

Mr. Phelps Warren, New York City 40

English and French antiques in the South 46

Miss Flora Barringer, Columbia, South Carolina 46

Nineteenth-century brownstone 50

Mr. Lee B. Anderson, New York City 50

Gothic revival mansion 59

Miss Constance Holt, Woodstock, Connecticut 59

American furniture and American views 68

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lee Gill, New York City 68

Russian, French, and English treasures 77

Mr. and Mrs. Herbert A. May, Washington, D.C. 77

Country house in Delaware 87

Mr. and Mrs. Lammot Copeland, Greenville, Delaware 87

Salt box in California 95

Mrs. Marjorie L. Adams Jr., Van Nuys, California 95

Queen Anne to Federal 102

Mrs. Andrew Varick Stout, New York City 102

French rococo and neoclassic 109

Colonel and Mrs. Edgar W. Garbisch, New York City 109

Variety in painted decoration 117

Mr. and Mrs. Howard Lipman, Cannondale, Connecticut 117

California adobe 127

Mrs. William M. O’Donnell, Monterey, California 127

Classic revival in Indiana 133

Mr. and Mrs. James L. Nugent Jr., Evansville, Indiana 133

Seventeenth-century family seat 139

Mr. and Mrs. David B. Robb, Ardmore, Pennsylvania 139

Luxury of eighteenth-century France 146

General and Mrs. Ralph K. Robertson, New York City 146

Transplanted colonial mansion 154

Mrs. George Maurice Morris, Washington, D.C. 154

England’s age of mahogany 163

Mr. and Mrs. Jerome C. Neuhoff, Kings Point, New York 163

REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER 173

Georgia plantation

Mr. and Mrs. Henry D. Green, Madison, Georgia

MR. AND MRS. HENRY D. GREEN had been collecting American antique furniture, especially Southern pieces, for twenty years before they found the old house that would provide the right setting for their collection. Then they acquired Greenoaks, a plantation near Madison, Georgia.

In 1803 this property was drawn by John Walker in a lottery by means of which the state of Georgia divided up a large tract ceded it the year before by