Aunt Frances’ White Damask Tablecloth
My daughter-in-law Meredith asked for the gift of the early 20th century white Damask banqueting tablecloth once owned by my great-aunt. Perhaps your family set tables this past season using …
2025 Martin Luther King Jr. Committee of Santa Barbara
Board President Dr. Gregory Freeland and keynote speaker Dr. Lisa Sideris discuss the 2025 Martin Luther King Jr. weekend in Santa Barbara. This year’s theme: “Everyone has the power for greatness, …
Hotel Art
My family treated each other to two nights over the holidays at a bougie hotel experience in Encinitas instead of forcing one member to host Christmas. The pricey hotel experience …
Traditional Japanese Woodblock Prints by Yoshida
RF owns two exquisite Japanese woodcuts. She couldn’t make out the signature, but I did. Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950) became a leading artist of the Shin-hanga “new print” movement of the …
Art and Antique World 2024
Elizabeth Stewart PhD ASA Accredited and AAA Certified Member appraiser offers a review of the art and antique world of 2024.
Connection to Order of Knighthood Medal
This early 19th century medal, an Order of Knighthood, may share a connection to my partner’s family history. You see, my partner’s last name is Flandrick, Province of Flanders, with …
Royal Antediluvian Order of the Buffalo
HH owns a 1920s sterling and enamel medallion from the Royal Antediluvian (‘before the flood’) Order of the Buffalo in red, white, cobalt, and turquoise. Fattorini and Sons LTD, Jewelers, …
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
Donor Relations Manager Melissa Ha-Navarro talks about the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. Watch Video
Duncan Phyfe’s Neoclassical Style
HH’s grandmother from Boston told him Duncan Phyfe made the table she left him. Almost everyone with an East Coast grandma runs the risk that she’ll say Phyfe made her …
Mary Tonetti Dorra and Alex Lukas
First author Mary Tonetti Dorra discusses her new book I Am a Portrait: Flash Fiction and Other Short Stories. Then Associate Professor of Print & Publication Arts Alex Lukas talks …