Innovative 1930s designers created a new style with simple curves and little decoration. After World War II, the glass industry in Europe and the United States started up again and continued working in this new, understated style.
“ My grandfather left me this real Stradivarius violin” is a commonly heard claim, but experts know this is practically impossible. Many farm families living in the northern part of the United States or in southern Canada have carefully guarded…
The twentieth century saw astounding changes in the American home and American food. The nineteenth-century housewife killed the chicken, plucked its feathers, and cleaned, cut, seasoned, and cooked the chicken on an open flame. By 1990 she went to a…
Glazed ceramic tiles have been used to decorate buildings since the days of the ancient Egyptians, but the history of modern tiles starts in sixteenth-century Britain, Spain, and Holland. At that time, overall repetitive designs inspired by Moorish motifs were…
Quality pottery and porcelain have been made in the area known as Bohemia since the late eighteenth century. At the end of World War I in 1918, Bohemia joined Moravia and Slovakia to form Czechoslovakia. Quantities of tableware and pottery…