Coffee, tea, and chocolate were all the rage in Enlightenment Europe. These fashionable beverages profoundly shaped modes of sociability...
The Swedish toy industry has long produced vast quantities of colorful, quality wooden items that reflect Scandinavian design...
Among the world’s great technological and imaginative achievements is the invention and development of the timepiece. Examining...
The advent of the crossbow more than 2,500 years ago effected dramatic changes for hunters and warriors. For centuries, it was...
This sumptuously illustrated book celebrates a curious masterpiece of German Renaissance art - the Landsknecht armor of Wilhelm...
From rare books, valuable sculpture and paintings, the relics of saints, and porcelain and other precious items, through stamps,...
Eberhardt (1758-1839) was master clockmaker in Salem for more than thirty-eight years. Albright attributes more than thirty clocks...
A captivating tour of the bookshelves of ten leading artists, exploring the intricate connections between reading, artistic practice,...
The Turkmen people of Central Asia and Iran are revered for their carpets and textiles. Less well known, but equally stunning,...
This is a spectacular monograph celebrating the history of jewellery in Scotland through 360 outstanding examples from the renowned...
At the outset of the twentieth century the debut of the American picture postcard incited widespread enthusiasm for collecting...
Margo Grant Walsh is a prominent interior architect with an impeccable eye for collecting silver. The recipient of prestigious...
Newly Available from YaleThis handsome book showcases the Metropolitan Museums superb collection of 151 American quilts and...
Objects have always been and continue to be carriers of personal and communal memories. Although the significance of objects for...
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