“I often visit sites like Chairish or 1stDibs to keep my eye trained to spot antiques and vintage pieces,” says Rashida Banks, a designer and home and lifestyle influencer in Washington, D.C. “Home ...

Julia Reinert, The Lifestyle Historian (Photo by Catherine Nguyen Photography) Antiques are once again enjoying a golden age in the world of design, but as with most things, they too have experienced ...

People have been collecting things for a long time. Some collect for fun, others collect for the hunt, and some collect for the investment. Most of us have inherited something or bought something we ...

I regularly field the question, “How do you spot a fake?” Unfortunately there is no easy answer. In fact there are as many answers as there are materials comprising art and antiques. Like most things ...

Art-nouveau designs are very unlike the slick modern designs favored by today's craftsmen. The style was international, but its most extreme examples were European. Gustav Gaudernack (1865-1914) was a ...

Many of us know that a 3-D model of the Earth, moon, sun and planets used to explain the way these bodies work is called a planetarium. But few are familiar with a tellurian (tellurium), a mechanical ...

Will people alive today leave fewer heirlooms? William Park explores how attitudes to antiques have changed – and what that might mean for our descendants. The ko-imari style of porcelain dates from ...