FDR's Furniture, a Guy in Nova Scotia, and a Presidential Mystery
Share Brian Doucette with the hutch that he’s spent thousands of hours investigating. Photograph by Louise Stoker. Brian Doucette has purchased a lot of cool stuff over the years—antique Harley-Davidson motorcycles and Meiji-period Japanese panels and an 18th-century Jacopo Brandini violin he picked up for $200 and later sold for $9,000. But the item that has most captured his imagination—the one he has now spent 3,000 hours researching, trying to unlock its secrets—is a wooden hutch he bought from a random couple in 2016. “Anybody in antiques always says, ‘One day I’m going t...
Source: washingtonian.com