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Remaking a classic: Philip Mittell makes his living representing people who design movies. When it came time to do a little set dressing of his own—turning
everyone has his or her own idea of what it means to arrive: a beautiful family, the corner office, a European sports car. For Philip Mittell, who owns ......(Continue Reading) Early American tables and other furniture at Stenton
Stenton, the countryseat of James Logan (1674-1751), is an ambitious and well-documented house built between 1723 and 1730 in what was then the countryside ......(Continue Reading)fresh style for an old house
Bright colors and sheer fabrics bring light and energy to this family home. There's more to the restoration of an older home than just renovating structural ......(Continue Reading)Case furniture of the Chapin school, 1775-1800
Eliphalet Chapin of East Windsor, Connecticut, has, since the 1920s, been the lower Connecticut River valley's best-known, and generally considered its most gifted, eighteenth-century cabinet-maker...(Continue Reading)Eighteenth-century Philadelphia case furniture at Stenton
James Logan (1674-1751), the learned secretary to William Penn (1644-1718), arrived in Philadelphia from England in 1699. By the 1720s, he had found ......(Continue Reading)
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