Exuberant Grotesques: Renaissance Maiolica from the Fontana Workshop is the latest in a critically acclaimed series of dossier presentations organized by the Frick. The project takes a rare focused look at this family workshop by presenting several outstanding and innovative examples of sixteenth-century Italian maiolica dating between 1565 and 1575
Each object features the distinctive combination [...]

Professional Restorers International has launched its new searchable web site directories allowing visitors to find qualified professional repair and restoration experts in over 40 categories. The range of services available from PRI members is astounding. Many PRI members offer very high end services and museum quality work that requires specialized skills and equipment. Other [...]

THE extraordinary furniture and fittings of the home of `Time Lord’, Severin Wunderman, who built up the Gucci watch franchise and owned the Swiss watch brand Corum, will go on sale at Bonhams on September 30th.
The magnificent eight-bedroom Chelsea home was his UK base until his untimely death last year at the age of 69. [...]

Aug. 30, 2009 — Pauline Pfeiffer was Ernest Hemingway’s second wife. During the 1930s the barn at Pfeiffer’s parents’ home in Piggott, Ark., was converted into a studio and sleeping quarters so that Hemingway could write in solitude while visiting his in-laws.
The Hemingways visited the Pfeiffer home for the first time as [...]

Over 700 lots of fine art, period furniture, decorative accessories and more – most of it fresh-to-the-market merchandise from prominent local estates and collections – will be sold Saturday, Sept. 19, at 9 a.m. by Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales, Ltd. It is just the second major auction to be held in the [...]