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Curious Objects

Curious Objects

105 Episodes • By The Magazine Antiques • www.themagazineantiques.com/podc...
Through interviews with leading figures in the world of fine and decorative arts, Curious Objects—a podcast from The Magazine Antiques—explores the hidden histories, the little-known facts, the intricacies, and the idiosyncrasies that breathe life and energy into historical works of craft and art.
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Advice Ep: How to Buy an Antique/Vintage Rug
In the newest installment of our advice series, Ben ... more
Apr 24 2024 57m
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THROWBACK: This Chair Is Made of America
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Apr 17 2024 38m
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CO Bites: A Pitch-Perfect Vermont Songbook
In this Curious Objects Bites episode, Benjamin Mill... more
Apr 10 2024 14m
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The Book of Dragons (and the Con Artist Who Made It), with Rebecca Romney
Rebecca Romney, co-founder of rare book dealer Type ... more
Mar 27 2024 35m
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Remembering Greg Cerio
Greg Cerio, editor of The Magazine ANTIQUES, died Sa... more
Mar 20 2024 6m
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CO Bites: Yoshiko Takaezo's "Closed Form," with Glenn Adamson
This week Glenn Adamson returns to the pod to discus... more
Mar 13 2024 12m
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Taylor Thistlethwaite Gets Excited About "Brown Furniture"
Taylor Thistlethwaite, proprietor of Thistlethwaite ... more
Mar 6 2024 40m
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THROWBACK: Once Upon a Bowl
If you ever start to feel like history is abstract, ... more
Feb 28 2024 27m
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Ben visits the Art Slice podcast
Last month Benjamin Miller made a guest appearance o... more
Feb 21 2024 43m
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Advice Ep: How to Buy a Vintage Engagement Ring
How much should you spend? What kind of stone should... more
Feb 14 2024 46m
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The Woman Who Saved Wedgwood
In 1909, Daisy Makeig-Jones was hired by the Wedgwoo... more
Feb 7 2024 37m
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“Enriching Your Life Through Collecting” at the Winter Show
In what has become an annual tradition, Curious Obje... more
Jan 31 2024 1h 11m
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The Beatles as Painters
In the summer of 1966 the Beatles were in Japan, whi... more
Jan 24 2024 33m
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The Marginalia That Made Christie's Value This Book at $1 Million
In 1543 Andreas Vesalius published a seven-part book... more
Jan 17 2024 50m
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Making Your Home a Source of Inspiration, with Tara McCauley
In this week’s episode, interior designer Tara McCau... more
Jan 10 2024 50m
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Ask Ben Anything
Over the past couple weeks we’ve been fielding and c... more
Jan 3 2024 1h 12m
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END OF YEAR THROWBACK: A Conversation with Luthier Paul Becker
A top-tier orchestra might well have tens of million... more
Dec 27 2023 46m
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Lewis Littlepage and the Amazing Silk-embroidered Dreamsuit
“Conservative” by the standards of its day, the thre... more
Dec 20 2023 38m
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What makes Thomas Cole’s “Course of Empire” Cycle as Relevant Today as in the 19th Century
This week Benjamin Miller is joined by filmmaker Rac... more
Dec 13 2023 37m
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A Met Curator Tells the Strange Story of Louis XIV's Carpets
This week we travel back to the seventeenth century,... more
Dec 6 2023 54m
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Jewelry We Love and Hate, with Gem X
This week Ben speaks with three bigwigs of Gem X, an... more
Nov 29 2023 50m
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THANKSGIVING THROWBACK: The House that Vanderbilt—Gilded Age Mansions of Newport, RI
In this special throwback episode of Curious Objects... more
Nov 22 2023 33m
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Debunking the Hitler Diaries and Other Adventures, with Kenneth Rendell
Friend of presidents and billionaires, nemesis of Hi... more
Nov 15 2023 46m
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Meet the Millennials Proving that Young People Love Old Things
This week host Benjamin Miller checks in with the in... more
Nov 8 2023 38m
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Should Antiquities Return to Where They Came From?
This week host Benjamin Miller engages Lillian Stone... more
Nov 1 2023 48m
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