Category: News
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Who is Stanley Weiss?
Stanley Weiss is an American real estate developer and collector of American Classical furniture based in Providence, Rhode Island. Over the past four decades, he assembled a portfolio of downtown Providence commercial buildings during a period of urban decline and built the Stanley Weiss Collection, comprising more than 650 objects of museum quality American and…
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Smithsonian Institute-Trained Furniture Conservator Randy Wilkinson to Offer 3-Day Wood Identification Workshop at Stanley Weiss Center for the Study of American Classical Furniture
Three days over the weekend, June 5-7, 2026 (Friday, Saturday 9:00am-4:00pm, Sunday 9:30 – 2:00pm) PROVIDENCE, RI – Did you ever look at a piece of wood and wonder what wood it is? And why it looks the way it does? Were you ever confused about which wood it is? Is it mahogany or walnut? Am…
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Stanley Weiss Center For The Study Of American Classical Furniture To Open
Opening late Fall 2025 in Providence, the Stanley Weiss Center for the Study of American Classical Furniture offers hands-on access to masterworks of American furniture, fostering scholarship, partnerships, and public engagement with furniture. PROVIDENCE, R.I., Sept. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Stanley Weiss Center for the Study of American Classical Furniture to Open Late Fall 2025 in Providence, Offering Hands-On…
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Q&A with Stanley Weiss
See the Q&A with Stanley Weiss in Antiques and the Arts Weekly. Stanley Weiss “Flip through the pages of this impressive volume, and you will discover a remarkable trove of treasures,” writes Brock Jobe, Winterthur’s professor of American decorative arts emeritus, in the foreword to Fine American Antiques in The Stanley Weiss Collection. Impressive it is,…
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Read our Profile in Maine Antiques Digest
“Twenty years ago [Stanley Weiss] bought the landmark Tilden-Thurber building at the corner of Matthewson and Westminster Streets in downtown Providence, Rhode Island, and restored it to the way it was in 1895, when built as a shop filled with the latest in elegant china, silver, and jewelry…”
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Stanley Weiss inducted in the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame
The man who placed his elegant mark on the city of Providence and beyond was born to a working-class family in Brooklyn, NY. His whirlwind journey to Rhode Island began when Stanley Weiss’ beloved mother placed a violin in his young hands. He didn’t disappoint. Weiss would devote himself to his craft and secure a…
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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 in MESDA’s collection of Neoclassical furniture. In the early Nineteenth Century, Baltimore’s…
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What is the Stanley Weiss Collection?
A Brief History for New Visitors…. The Stanley Weiss Collection is a renowned selection of fine antique furniture and decorative arts, primarily focused on American pieces from the 18th and early 19th centuries. Stanley Weiss, an avid collector and connoisseur, curated this impressive collection over several decades, establishing it as one of the most significant…