Louis XIV
The post that preceded this one read the Spanish Baroque — dark walnut, hand-wrought iron, tooled leather, a severity …
Date
2026-05-26
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2875
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14 min
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D
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D
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C
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E
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Shirvan
The twelfth post in this arc treated Karabagh, and it spent most of its account holding two things together: a …
Date
2026-05-26
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2880
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14 min
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D
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D
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C
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E
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E
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D
Spanish Baroque
The post before this one read the Italian Renaissance, and named the Spanish tradition as a sibling it had not yet …
Date
2026-05-25
Words
3586
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17 min
Power
C
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D
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C
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E
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E
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D
Karabagh
The third post in this arc treated the Kazak, and it opened the Caucasian tradition by setting the bold geometric …
Date
2026-05-25
Words
3353
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16 min
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D
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D
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C
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E
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E
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D
Italian Renaissance
The sixth post in this arc treated the Italian Baroque, and named the Italian Renaissance as the antecedent it had grown …
Date
2026-05-24
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3341
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16 min
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D
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D
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C
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E
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E
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D
Isfahan
The fifth post in this arc treated Kashan, and it opened the central Persian court register by setting the urban …
Date
2026-05-24
Words
3539
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17 min
Power
C
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D
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C
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E
Precision
E
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D
English Regency
The ninth post in this arc treated Thomas Sheraton, and closed by promising one of two continuations: the heavier …
Date
2026-05-23
Words
3629
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18 min
Power
C
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D
Range
C
Durability
E
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E
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D
Oushak
The ninth post in this arc treated the Hereke — a rug made not by a place but by an institution, a state manufactory …
Date
2026-05-23
Words
3377
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16 min
Power
D
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D
Range
C
Durability
E
Precision
E
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D
Thomas Sheraton
The eighth post in this arc treated George Hepplewhite, and closed by promising one of two continuations: a return to …
Date
2026-05-22
Words
3625
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18 min
Power
C
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D
Range
C
Durability
E
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E
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D
Hereke
The eight prior posts in this arc divided cleanly among three weaving worlds. The Persian — Heriz, Tabriz, Bakshaish, …
Date
2026-05-22
Words
3513
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17 min
Power
C
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D
Range
C
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E
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E
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D
George Hepplewhite
The seven prior posts in this arc — Louis XV, Louis XVI, Biedermeier, English Chippendale, Gustavian, Italian Baroque, …
Date
2026-05-21
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3778
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18 min
Power
B
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D
Range
C
Durability
E
Precision
E
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D
Tekke
The seven prior posts in this arc — Heriz, Tabriz, Caucasian Kazak, Bakshaish, Kashan, Bidjar, and most recently Hamadan …
Date
2026-05-21
Words
3521
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17 min
Power
C
Speed
D
Range
C
Durability
E
Precision
E
Potential
D
Italian Rococo (Venetian)
The six prior posts in this arc — Louis XV, Louis XVI, Biedermeier, English Chippendale, Gustavian, and Italian Baroque …
Date
2026-05-20
Words
3739
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18 min
Power
B
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D
Range
C
Durability
E
Precision
E
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D
Hamadan
The six prior posts in this arc — Heriz, Tabriz, Caucasian Kazak, Bakshaish, Kashan, and most recently Bidjar — treated, …
Date
2026-05-20
Words
3678
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18 min
Power
B
Speed
D
Range
C
Durability
E
Precision
E
Potential
D
Italian Baroque
The five prior posts in this arc — Louis XV, Louis XVI, Biedermeier, English Chippendale, and Gustavian — have together …
Date
2026-05-19
Words
3561
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17 min
Power
C
Speed
D
Range
C
Durability
E
Precision
E
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D
Bidjar
The five prior posts in this arc — Heriz, Tabriz, Caucasian Kazak, Bakshaish, and most recently Kashan — laid out the …
Date
2026-05-19
Words
3506
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17 min
Power
C
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D
Range
C
Durability
E
Precision
E
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D
Gustavian
The four prior posts in this arc — Louis XV, Louis XVI, Biedermeier, and English Chippendale — have together described …
Date
2026-05-18
Words
3571
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17 min
Power
C
Speed
D
Range
C
Durability
E
Precision
E
Potential
D
Kashan
The four prior posts in this arc — Heriz, Tabriz, Caucasian Kazak, and most recently Bakshaish — built the body of …
Date
2026-05-18
Words
3826
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18 min
Power
B
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D
Range
C
Durability
E
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E
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D
English Chippendale
The three prior posts in this arc — Louis XV, Louis XVI, and Biedermeier — described one diagonal across the eighteenth- …
Date
2026-05-17
Words
2535
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12 min
Power
E
Speed
C
Range
C
Durability
E
Precision
E
Potential
D
Bakshaish
The first three rug posts in this arc — Heriz, Tabriz, and Caucasian Kazak — established the two axes along which the …
Date
2026-05-17
Words
2691
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13 min
Power
E
Speed
C
Range
C
Durability
E
Precision
E
Potential
D
Biedermeier
The two prior posts in this arc — Louis XV and Louis XVI — described the principal axis of eighteenth-century French …
Date
2026-05-16
Words
4517
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22 min
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A
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E
Range
C
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E
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E
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D
Caucasian Kazak
The first two rug posts in this arc — Heriz and Tabriz — described the principal axis of Persian weaving: workshop …
Date
2026-05-16
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4616
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22 min
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A
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E
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C
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E
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E
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D
Louis XVI
The cabriole leg disappears. The bombé case straightens into a rectangle with canted corners. The floral marquetry …
Date
2026-05-15
Words
4098
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20 min
Power
A
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E
Range
C
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E
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E
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D
Tabriz
If the Heriz post that opened this arc described the village-workshop tradition of the Iranian Azerbaijani highlands — …
Date
2026-05-15
Words
3702
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18 min
Power
B
Speed
D
Range
C
Durability
E
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E
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D
Louis XV
The piece of furniture most often understood as “antique French” in the Anglophone domestic interior — the …
Date
2026-05-14
Words
4056
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20 min
Power
A
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E
Range
C
Durability
E
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E
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D
Heriz
The rug at the centre of every American living room of any pretension between roughly 1890 and 1940 was, very probably, …
Date
2026-05-14
Words
3696
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18 min
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B
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D
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C
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E
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E
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D
Reading the Antique
There is in the connoisseur’s habit of mind a quiet expectation that any object of sufficient age, well-made, will …
Date
2026-05-14
Words
1254
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6 min
Power
E
Speed
B
Range
E
Durability
E
Precision
E
Potential
D