Antiques & Design

The Kaufman Collection of American antiques, now on view at the National Gallery, chronicles the evolution of taste, technique, and creativity in a young country.

French designer-entrepreneur René Lalique was a wizard who could make glass do just about anything—and die-hard devotees of his works will do just about anything to get them.

Louis Comfort Tiffany brought nature’s beauty indoors with his luxe glass creations, which are being highlighted in several current museum shows.

The craftsmen of the studio furniture movement have always been American originals, working independently of each other, following their own visions, making everything by hand.

Modern jewelry giants are being celebrated by art museums on both coasts.

Antique tall case clocks, once the highest of the high-tech, still keep both time and their value.

With new techniques and materials available, quilters are creating ambitious fabric artworks that can hang next to any painting.

Usually unbuildable, visionary architecture provides infrastructure for the collective imagination.

Against all odds, African-American cabinetmaker Thomas Day became an entrepreneur and a tastemaker in antebellum North Carolina.