Vaulted ceiling in the oval reception room of Palais d’Assche in Brussels. (Photo by Skip Moskey.) When Larz Anderson was appointed American Minister to Belgium in August, 1911, his first thought was: where would he and Isabel live in Brussels? He was a bit of a snob when it came to domestic architecture, and had […]
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Larz Anderson was a collector of many things, including several dozen fine old motor cars – from an 1899 Winton Phaeton that he named ‘Pioneer’ (motto: It Will Go!) to a 1926 Lincoln Seven Limousine, ‘The Emancipator’ (motto: Son Courage Fait sa Force/His Courage is his Might). Larz was, however, as avid a collector of horse-drawn carriages as he […]
My Visit with Charles Deering (1852–1927) | The Gilded Age in America
By Skip Moskey John Deering. Portrait by John Singer Sargent. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) In April 2017 I visited the Charles Deering Estate in South Florida for the first time. I had been several times to Vizcaya, the nearby estate of Charles’ half brother James. Even though the Charles Deering Estate makes an […]