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The 17 Best Pieces at the Winter Antiques Show

The 17 Best Pieces at the Winter Antiques Show (excerpt)

By Mitchell Owens
Architectural Digest, January 23, 2017

"Women artists are the focus of Todd Merrill Studio’s booth, and among the pieces is a new work by Beth Katleman. Called White Rabbit, it is a Lewis Carroll riff on a rococo Thomas Chippendale girandole. The humorous piece, measuring 77 inches high by 31 inches wide, is peopled with cartoonlike characters, including a pigtailed girl in a hoopskirt (quite plainly standing in for the heroine of Alice in Wonderland), the Cheshire cat, and a rodent wearing a top hat."