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Vintage Modern Gallery
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Barn Again Gallery
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Barn Again
“Pick Yourself Up And Dust Yourself Off.” Easy enough when a bully pushes you down on the playground and you scrape up your elbows. But when a dwindling local economy brought Marty and Lone Azola crashing to their knees in the late-1980s, dusting themselves off meant more than wiping the dirt from their hands. It [...]
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Vintage Modern
“The Paris Exposition of 1925 was the point at which we saw the introduction of Art Moderne, which later became known as Art Deco,” says James Abbott, a Baltimore-based museum consultant. “Art Moderne died after World War II, although it did have a lingering effect in Hollywood that extended to 1950, then it is completely [...]
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The Four-Season Garden
Masses of daffodils and vibrant tulips in the garden are a rite of spring. A landscape populated by daylilies and flowering perennials announce the pinnacle of summer, while autumn color and empty seed pods often begin the garden’s final act. But what of winter? Typically gardens in winter offer only shadows of summer’s glory. For [...]
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Hillwood Museum and Garden Gallery
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Hillwood Museum and Gardens
Marjorie Merriweather Post is perhaps best known for being fabulously wealthy; for her philanthropic efforts; and without a doubt, for her world-class collection of fine and decorative arts from Imperial Russia, particularly items that had belonged to the last Czar, Nicholas II, and other Russian royals.
From 1955 until her death in 1973,the General Foods heiress [...]
