As interior designer Albert Hadley once said, “Design is coming to grips with one’s real lifestyle, one’s real place in the world. Rooms should not be put together for show but to nourish one’s well-being.” Along these lines, decorating a home with vintage and antique items comes from a deep desire to connect. To tie […]

As author Dr. Jane Swan once remarked, “How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?” Music undoubtedly has the uncanny ability to tell stories with sounds, to speak with emotions directly to the soul. With the technological means to record and relisten to songs, the impact of […]

Stemming from the Latin word sculpere, the word “sculpture” means “to carve.” As one of the oldest persisting visual art forms, sculptures are more than merely stunning objects to gaze upon. Due to their representational lifelikeness, freestanding sculptures have the ability to tell stories about people, places, perceptions, and past eras unlike any other artistic […]

From the beginning of humanity’s time on Earth, sound was an invisible, fleeting force. Up until around 150 years ago, the ability to capture, record, and playback sound was a possibility for someday. Could you imagine life without music, television, film, videos, podcasts, radio, or any audible art? Where would we be? Fortunately, clever innovators […]

There’s no better hobby than the refined, satisfying art of collecting. Creating collections of things from the past that have meaning in the present opens a window to both worlds. We can learn a lot about past eras with these valuable snapshots of time and gain a deeper perspective of what the world once was […]