Antiques (magazine)
monthly arts publication
The Magazine Antiques is a bimonthly arts publication that focuses on architecture, interior design, and fine and decorative arts. Regular monthly columns include news on current exhibitions and art-world events, notes on collecting, and book reviews.
History
Antiques was founded in 1921 by Homer Eaton Keyes, a noted collector of American glass and a former business manager of Dartmouth College, with its first issue appearing in January 1922.[1][2] In the inaugural issue, Keyes wrote, "The magazine hopes to be authoritative... It hopes to avoid twaddle... The effort will be, in any one discussion, to secure thoroughness within a limited area of research."
"After seeing the initial copy the success of the magazine is not to be doubted," The Springfield Union stated in its 25 December 1921 issue (page 31). "It is most artistically set up and the lover of the antique will long to crawl into some chimneycorner and read it from cover to cover... It is the handiwork of a true lover of the antique.... Listed are some of the good things that the editors promise are coming: Arms, armor, books, bronzes, china, clocks, coins, draperies, etchings, fabrics, furniture, glassware, hardware, jewelry, laces, lamps, medals, paintings, pottery, porcelain, pewter, rugs, samplers, silverware, stamps, tapestries [and] wall coverings."
Books
In 1947, editor in chief Alice Winchester edited the book Living with Antiques. (The News and Advance, 7 May 1947, page 10)
By 1950, The Magazine Antiques was heralded in the Los Angeles Times (10 September 1950, page 132) in an article written by Grace and Gregor Norman-Wilcox: "Many other magazines for collectors, serving different sorts of audiences, have come and gone, but Antiques in America, like the Connoisseur in England, has achieved a venerable, even a pontifical estate—not that of a magazine, but of an institution." That same year, the magazine published, under the aegis of editor Alice Winchester, The Antiques Book (A.A. Wyn, Inc.), a collection of articles that had appeared in the magazine between 1922 and 1949.
In 1951, Winchester wrote and published How to Know American Antiques, which reportedly sold 500,000 copies in the United States.
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