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The New Antiquarians
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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