Living in a One-Bedroom Museum

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Thomas Lollar — the ceramicist, teacher, and, most of all, collector — can always find space for a new discovery. See inside his apartment, where everything tells a story about long-ago everyday lives. DHWendyGoodman reports

The Living Room: The secretary by the back wall is Charles X, found in Baltimore. The painting above of the lyre player is French Empire. The headless sculpture in the foreground is a Jim Dine silver Venus. The etching over the sofa is by Sandro Chia. Photo: Jason Schmidt I’d never even heard of a strigil before my visit to the ceramicist Thomas Lollar’s apartment.

He’s been filling it up with what interests him ever since — to the point where it’s hard to imagine he’d ever find room for more. And yet he does. He is interested particularly in “utilitarian objects, handled by the people of the time,” he says. “Ancient hand mirrors, silver spoons, cutlery, and utensils such as the patera: a saucepanlike object sometimes worn by soldiers for eating in the theater of battle.

 

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