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(Young Collectors)Guess Who's Not Coming to Dinner?
The Young Collector
For much of western history, the dining room, even remotely as we know it, did not exist. For centuries, virtually all spaces in the homes of common folks, and even to some degree those of “uncommon” folks as well, were multifunctional. Even in the wealthiest of homes, manor ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)More Questions Than Answers
The Young Collector
Recently on Facebook, home of nuanced discussions, there has been a great deal of discussion about the sale of the Allen H. Eaton (1878-1962) collection at Rago Auctions in Lambertville, New Jersey. For those of you who avoid Facebook and prefer to use your Internet for looking at ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)TV Guide (to Antiques)
The Young Collector
Librarians get asked lots of odd questions—can you help me find the red cookbook I was looking at last week, what foods float, am I divorced? (yes, seriously, all of those)—but many of them would say their favorite question comes when someone just wants a good book to ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)In Defense of Pattern Glass
The Young Collector
What a winter. Everyone seems to be talking about the weather. We’ve been lucky here, keeping mostly warm and never losing power—until the day after Hollie wrote this sentence. There’s hardly an experience more jarring to young Americans than losing power (unless perhaps losing Internet access), especially to ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Community Gardening
The Young Collector
Kids’ minds work in remarkable ways. Sometimes you have a keen awareness that they are laying track across vast swaths of new territory, and they’re constantly discovering more uncharted areas. (A terrifying awareness is that you are allegedly helping them.) Sometimes the breadth of what they do not ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)2014: The Year in Review
The Young Collector
It’s a fitting thing to be wrapping this up on New Year’s Eve, that night when we indulge ourselves, overindulge ourselves, in any number of ways including nostalgic reflection. Sometimes, like in the afternoons of wet fall days or in the sticky middle-of-summer mornings (or anywhere on Interstate ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Black Friday Blues
The Young Collector
Maybe it’s just the holidays combined with the rush of birthdays (both our kids have birthdays later in the year), but we are currently working on a theory about why younger people don’t want old stuff. It’s because they don’t want any stuff.
We can understand how you’d think ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Pickups, Pumpkins, and Popovers
The Young Collector
Ah, time again for our annual fall pilgrimage to the ADA Deerfield Show and the holy shrine of autumn, the Connecticut River valley. Andrew feels very lucky to work in a business and for a company that allows us a long weekend in New England every year in ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)There and Back Again
The Young Collector
Sometimes, you need to repeat an experience, even a difficult one, just to be able to have the satisfaction of utilizing what you learned from the awkward, inefficient way you did it the first time. Sometimes, you need to repeat an experience because you’re Homer Simpson and you ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Gone to Carolina
The Young Collector
We never take vacations. Oh, we go places, quite often, but almost always “There’s just this one stop I need to make in Hingham” or “It will only take five minutes, but we’ve got to deliver this five-hundred-pound corner cupboard, and I said we’d help her get it ... (Read More)
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