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Kimbel & Cabus furniture rare and valuable

Identify the designer of an antique and it will usually sell for more. Sometimes an attribution is enough. This Aesthetic Movement table with ebonized finish, incised gilt decoration and flower panels sold for an impressive $6,144 at Neal Auction. While you can’t dismiss its visual appeal -- after all, it was made during the Aesthetic Movement of the late 19th century, the time of “art for art’s sake” -- its attribution to New York firm Kimbel & Cabus was probably a factor in its selling. The Kimbel & Cabus firm was active from 1862 to 1882 and famous for exhibiting their ...

Recent reads

Here are few of my favorite recent reads. Library staff would be happy to help you place requests on these or any other titles. If you’d like to place your own request, visit www.newulmlibrary.org and choose Library Catalog. Cole, recently divorced, has moved from London to a small village on the English coast, where he is a park ranger for the coastal area. One day he has a verbal altercation with two young women who are hiking throughout the country to raise awareness of violence against women. The women are walking too close to a crumbling cliff, and Cole’s persistent urging for ...

The many props of Jennifer Deutz

In the lower levels of State Street Theater Company (SSTC) there is a series of rooms filled with a wide assortment of odds and ends. One room is filled with plastic plants and other faux greenery. The room next door is lined with rows and rows of old telephones and typewriters. The nearby ...

Gardening season blooming

NEW ULM – With the large amounts of rain and plenty of green thumbs in New Ulm, the city’s gardening spirit is blooming. Pollinator Park, New Ulm gardening club, and the downtown waterers are all parts of this gardening spirit. At 2250 North Broadway, the city’s Pollinator Park has ...

Remembering early family design firms

Father’s Day is a good time to remember that many design firms of the 19th and 20th centuries were family businesses. Some of the most famous glassmakers, ceramicists and metalsmiths followed their fathers into business, and many famous company names end in “and Sons.” This coin silver coffee pot, which sold for $1,860 at an auction by Leland Little, was made by S. Kirk & Son of Baltimore, one of the best-known American silversmiths. Samuel Kirk opened his first silver store in 1815. He started partnering with his sons in 1846; the company was known as S. Kirk & Son from 1846 to ...