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The New Antiquarians

By Michael Diaz-Griffith

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The New Antiquarians explores living with collections and objects with history. Reading notes on mixing old and new, with the selected Monacelli hardback.

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History does not need a matching suite.

Michael Diaz-Griffith looks at the homes of a younger generation of collectors, with photography by Brian W. Ferry. The New Antiquarians places historic objects in individual, contemporary lives. Its subject is not simply the age of a piece, but the relationships people build between things from different places and periods.

Choose this for the collecting side of a gothic home: the unusual shape, the inherited object, the find whose story matters to you. Our practical starting point is a small group rather than a whole room. Set three things together and notice what connects them. It may be material, colour or a shared memory. Keep space for each object to be seen, and leave room for the collection to change as your interests do.

Read it for

  • Homes shaped by personal collections
  • Antiques alongside contemporary life
  • Connections between objects and their owners

From the page to your room

Make a collection easy to live with.

Bookshelves can hold personal history as well as books. Keep the most useful volumes accessible and give a few collected objects space around their outlines.

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