The recently published “Start With a House, Finish With a Collection” by Leslie Anne Miller is the story of how one couple's use of American art and antiques evolved from furnishing a house into a full-blown passion for collecting. Featuring exquisite examples of Hollingsworth and Morris family furniture, Chinese Export porcelain, Pennsylvania clocks and Kirk-Stieff silver, as well as American paintings by the Peale family, Edward Hicks, Edward Redfield and Horace Pippin, this museum-calibre collection reveals a pride in the hunt for great art and antiques. A range of early formal Philadelphia furniture, along with Pennsylvania German paint-decorated chests, reflect the combination of urban and backcountry decorative arts in the collection.
The combination of text and extraordinary photographs traces this remarkable journey of collecting and demonstrates that the couple’s life is comfortable living among these various collections. The compendium catalogues the diversified and important collection, making this a valuable scholarly reference as well as a reading pleasure.
The book is dedicated to antiques dealer and interior designor Harry Hartman. The origins of this book began with an article written for the “Magazine Antiques” in 2010 by Alexandria Alevizatos Kirtley. The photography was done by Gavin Ashworth.
Leslie Anne Miller and her husband Richard Worley reside in Pennsylvania.
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