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The Decorative Arts Trust has shared select articles from the summer issue of their member magazine as online articles for all to enjoy.

The Magazine of the Decorative Arts Trust, Summer 2026

• “A Nation of Artists: 250 Years of Creativity” by Alexandra Alevizatos Kirtley Link»
• “Workshop of the World: Arts and Crafts in Philadelphia” by David L. Barquist and Colin Fanning Link»
• “Window to Revolution: Pennsylvania Germans and the War for Independence” by Lisa Minardi, Emily Sneff, Christopher Malone, and Sarah Bowen Link»
• “Seeking Profit and Power: Philadelphia, China Trade, and the Making of America” by Peter Seibert Link»
• “Challenging Masterpieces: Art and Identity in American Furniture” by Josh Lane Link»
• “Radical Americana: 45 Artists and 25 Philadelphia-area Sites Celebrate the Semiquincentennial” by Jennifer Zwilling Link»
• “The Politics of Taste: The Presidential Houses of Virginia and Washington” by Amy Hudson Henderson Link»
• “The Work of the Edinburgh Upholstery Company at Hopetoun House” by Stephen Jackson Link»
• “Philip Trammel Shutze: Atlanta’s Consummate Collector” by Michael Rose Link»
• “Novel Nature: How a Maritime Byproduct Defined the Elite 17th-Century Interior” by Lauryn Smith Link»

The printed Magazine of the Decorative Arts Trust is mailed to Trust members twice per year. If you would like a print copy, click here to become a Trust member.

Pictured: The magazine cover shows a rare pickle stand featured in A Nation of Artists at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Gousse Bonnin and George Anthony Morris founded the American China Manufactory in Philadelphia in 1770. Designed to serve pickled nuts and fruits during the dessert course of a meal, this small stand is made of more than 72 elements individually formed from a refined white clay called kaolin. The shells were molded from actual shells. Once assembled, the stand was then decorated with cobalt blue ornament, covered with a clear lead glaze, and fired at a high temperature. Bonnin and Morris’s ability to make soft-paste porcelain provided direct evidence that Americans could prosper without the assistance of Great Britain and its mercantile system, emboldening leaders such as Benjamin Franklin and Dr. Benjamin Rush. (American China Manufactory, Pickle Stand, 1770–72, Philadelphia. Soft-paste porcelain with underglaze blue decoration. 5 1/8 × 7 in. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Gift of a 7th-generation Philadelphian, 2014-166-1. Image courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.)