Welcome to the Stanley Weiss Collection/The Museum of Classical American Furniture
We have evolved over many decades as a collector/dealer’s enterprise, the Stanley Weiss Collection, to now founding the Museum of Classical American Furniture (MoCAF). As a private nonprofit organization, MoCAF will display hundreds of the finest pieces of American Classical and Colonial furniture as privately collected by Stanley Weiss, arranged in a number of exhibition clusters in our 10,000 sf. open display gallery. All museum items are also on display on our website with additional academic footnotes and sources, often with comparative examples.
We are available by e-mail for any questions and/or to schedule a gallery visit of our exhibition. Marc Beaulac, our Collection Archivist, will receive all inquiries. As a museum, we will be able to accession and deaccession to build the collection to the highest standard of Classicism within the American Furniture milieu.
MoCAF is located at 212 Fourth St. within the Brown/RISD campus footprint in Providence, RI, open to other institutions in the decorative arts field by appointment.
Browse Our Collection
Tables
Casepieces
Mirrors
Seating
Beds
Clocks
Miscellaneous
Visit our gallery in Providence, Rhode Island’s East Side.
News & Exhibitions
Boston Masterpieces: The Furniture of the Seymour School
Explore the masterworks of Boston father-and-son cabinetmakers John & Thomas Seymour, who brought exacting standards of English craftsmanship to market in Federal New England and produced work that was the envy of any maker to be found in America at the time. Each...
MESDA Acquires Baltimore Sideboard From Stanley Weiss Collection
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. —The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) is the recipient of an exceptional inlaid sideboard made in Baltimore, Md., between 1800 and 1815. A gift of Beth and Stanley Weiss from the Stanley Weiss Collection, it fills an important gap...
The Paintings of George William Whitaker, (1841-1916)
From June 13, 2019 through October 14, 2019, selections from Stanley Weiss’s George William Whitaker collection were exhibited at the Gilbert Stuart Museum, along other other Whitaker works…