The Magazine Antiques

America’s premier publication on the fine and decorative arts, architecture, preservation, and interior design. Each bimonthly issue includes regular columns on current exhibitions, personalities in the field, notes on collecting, book reviews, and more.

The Magazine Antiques

Presenting the Copeland Collection

EDITOR'S LETTER

On Native Grounds

Table manners at the Bard Graduate Center

A freed spirit at the Met

Copper bright in Oregon

Living Tiffany in Sarasota

A Winged Wineglass at Winterthur

Dutch Treat • AN INDOOR FOLLY AT THE GROLIER CLUB HEARKENS BACK TO THE TAVERNS OF OLD NEW AMSTERDAM

One Simple Trick • ON THE ENDURING APPEAL OF PUZZLE JUGS

An Educational Étouffée • ON THE CULINARY CULTURAL BUFFET THAT IS THE SOUTHERN FOOD AND BEVERAGE MUSEUM IN NEW ORLEANS

Alimentary Athenaeums • A SAMPLER OF CULINARY MUSEUMS AROUND THE WORLD, WHERE FOOD IS EXPLORED AS CULTURAL TRADITION, AS INDUSTRY, AND EVEN AS ART

Ars Gratia Libris • THE ARTIST-DECORATED MUGS OF THE SALMAGUNDI CLUB LIBRARY

Second Time Around • WHY SOME ANTIQUES AND ART DEALERS LOVE IT WHEN WORKS THEY SOLD ONCE BEFORE RETURN TO THEIR GALLERIES

Library Gems • A ROUNDUP OF SOME NOTEWORTHY RECENT BOOKS ON JEWELERS AND THEIR JEWELRY

Dining with Antiques • A hospitality-adept interior designer sets the stage for entertainment occasions at home using antique tableware, silver, and glass from his well-built collection

Food for Thought • A current exhibition at the Norton Simon Museum examines the many meanings of the edible in art

The Joy of Cook books • A cookbook collector catalogues a few of the many volumes that have helped him explore and enjoy the byways of American cuisine

History on the Half Shell • All about the renaissance of the landmark nineteenth-century Brooklyn restaurant Gage & Tollner

Feast for the Eyes • The food paintings of the seventeenth-century Dutch artist Clara Peeters helped bring the still life into maturity as a genre

Hot Stove League • A gallery of six kitchens in historic American homes across the nation

Beautiful, Useful, and Enduring • The story of the estimable arts and crafts silver of the Kalo Shop and the principled, indomitable woman at the firm's helm: Clara Barck Welles

EVENTS • EXHIBITIONS SYMPOSIUMS LECTURES

Sweet History in Spain • Eat your museum entry ticket? At the Museo de la Xocolata (Museum of Chocolate) in Barcelona, Spain, go right ahead—it's a chocolate bar. Christopher Columbus discovered cacao during his trips to America and wrote about the various drinks that indigenous people made with it. However, it was not until after the con quest of Mexico by Hernán Cortés that the importance of cacao was truly realized. Barcelona subsequently became an important early center for making chocolate—and particularly famous for its hot chocolate (xocolata calenta). Marta Tañà Codina, director of the Museo de la Xocolata, shares the story with us.