Taste & Connoisseurship Archives

Renaissance Revival

by M. Curtis | Jan 12, 2023 | A-Musing from the Editor, Renaissance Revival | 0 |

… I wonder, can a rebirth be reborn. If so, how many times? The American Renaissance...

The Storybook House

by M. Curtis | Dec 13, 2022 | A-Musing from the Editor, Storybook | 0 |

Once upon a time … do you hear the first line? Do you remember? Can you imagine the...

The Arts and Crafts

by M. Curtis | Nov 8, 2022 | A-Musing from the Editor, Craftsman | 0 |

… The Arts and Crafts Aesthetic 19th, 20th, 21st Centuries Look at your hands. What...

Log Houses

by M. Curtis | Oct 11, 2022 | A-Musing from the Editor, Log House | 0 |

… American Log Houses, Considered : If you listen to your imagination, you will hear biting...

Alexander Jackson Davis

by M. Curtis | Sep 27, 2022 | Architects & Architecture at Home, Carpenter Gothic | 0 |

… Alexander Jackson Davis, Artist : Once upon a time, architects could draw, could show to...

Windows

by Milton Grenfell | Aug 4, 2022 | round and about the house | 0 |

.. . Windows, the Eyes of the House : Poets have described eyes as “windows of the...

Phillip Phillips’ Home

by M. Curtis | Jun 23, 2022 | Traditions of Home | 0 |

Phillip Phillips’ Home is a simple song, a sincere poem, a verse favored by...

Picturesque Italianate

by M. Curtis | Mar 17, 2022 | Italianate, Taste & Connoisseurship | 0 |

George Washington was a demi-god, a landscape was the picture of Eden, a sunset was God’s poem, and everyman’s home was his castle. We cannot know the Picturesque Italianate, or anything worth knowing of picturesque architecture by seeing with a modern eye.