and it was also through the encouragement of his art professor that he pursued a career as an artist. Robertson’s earliest inspiration was the landscape of the indigenous pines and oak trees, and the waters of Mobile Bay. The coastal landscape is also an ongoing major source of inspiration ...
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Martin Carlin (c.1785) made especial use of Sevres plaques in the ornamentation of furniture, probably working to the orders of either Poirier or Daguerre, both dealers who supplied the Court. He also specialized in lacquer furniture, some perhaps made from dismembered Oriental cabinets, caskets,...
But it is the old phones that are his passion. In 1978, he added a wing to his home to accommodate a staggering array of antique phone booths, furniture and telephones. The oldest, nestled among dozens of boxy wall phones of walnut and oak, is a primitive 1876 “Butter Stamp” phone, ...