The Fall/Winter 2024 issue explores the decorative arts beyond their static façade, as dynamic objects that intervene with human senses and the environment. Articles offer thoughtful reflections on how materials, the making process, or use enliven decorative arts.

This issue highlights artists like Liz Magor, who traces the use and repair of Hudson's Bay point blankets, and Natalka Husar, whose ceramic food sculptures evoke memories of her home. You will also read about the olfactory history of a once richly perfumed chest from the Italian Renaissance, and discover how arts and nature intertwined during the seventeenth century in Italy through the study of a now-silent harpsichord.