Sarah Archer

@sarcher

Author of The Midcentury Kitchen, Midcentury Christmas, and Catland. Writing in Architectural Digest, Antiques, and elsewhere.

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Sarah Archer@sarcher· 26d

50 years ago today 🤸

Nadia Comaneci dismounting from the uneven bars at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal

Sarah Archer@sarcher· 26d

Are you Working on Something (an exhibition, gallery happening, maker performance, combination of the three) that will open around late October / early November and promises to utterly bewitching? Especially if you’re at a small organization? Curators and publicity mavens email me at the usual spot!

📸: an assemblage of objects from California Design 10 organized by Eudorah Moore at the Pasadena Art Museum, 1968. San Maloof cradle in the background

Sarah Archer@sarcher· 27d

Marking Philadelphia’s code purple (😷) with a #FinnishFriday gem from @cooperhewitt.org.web.brid.gy: “Onnea” textile designed by Maija Isola and manufactured by Marimekko, 1972. Stay safe out there or better yet, in here.

A textile pattern featuring a purple, red, green and yellow bouquet of flowers in a clear vase on a white background

Sarah Archer@sarcher· 27d

*Call for papers* for a forthcoming special issue of the journal Fashion, Style & Popular Culture: “Cowboy Carter: Reimagining the American West through Fashion, Music and Performance” www.intellectbooks.com/fashion-styl...

The cover of Beyoncé’s album Cowboy Carter showing the artist sitting on a gray horse in a cowboy ensemble holding a US flag

Sarah Archer@sarcher· 29d

Like imagine if it ends up being England vs. Spain.

Portrait of Queen Mary I of England, by Antonis Mor, 1554; she’s wearing a brown and gold dress and holding a red rose seated on a red and gold Dagobert-style chair.

Sarah Archer@sarcher· 29d

I wouldn’t say please, personally

Sarah Archer@sarcher· Jul 13

Star Trek The Next Generation character Tasha Yar shown as a hologram against a blue sky and green landscape

Sarah Archer@sarcher· Jul 9

Raise your hand if you can hear this photo 🎶

The Philadelphia 6ABC action news van parked on a south Philadelphia street

Sarah Archer@sarcher· Jul 7

On the brain:

"The Big Duck" on Long Island, built in 1931 by farmer Martin Maurer to sell ducks and duck eggs, it's the eponymous duck in the "duck vs. decorated shed" hypothesis by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown.

Sarah Archer@sarcher· Jul 6

I know it’s probably a coincidence but WHAT IF

MORRIS S POVICH
MEN & BOYS
CLOTHING SHOP
Sign painted on the side of a red brick building in white

Sarah Archer@sarcher· Jul 6

Our cat-sitter is basically Diane Arbus.

A white and orange cat reaching through balustrades to swat at a feather toy

Sarah Archer@sarcher· Jul 6

The finale of Ghostbusters in which Zuul appears in human form atop a haunted skyscraper

Sarah Archer@sarcher· Jul 5

I encountered this Nancy Reagan doll whilst antiquing and now you must be aware of it.

A group of vintage dolls in an antiques shop with one resembling Nancy Reagan front and center

Sarah Archer@sarcher· Jul 5

The pastoral is political.

Two young women in blue prairie dresses outside in the countryside

Sarah Archer@sarcher· Jul 5

Photos of fireworks never look good. Nevertheless:

Sarah Archer@sarcher· Jul 5

Happy 4th, you guys! 🎆🧶 I’m chuffed to have a piece in the special July/August semiquincentennial issue of the Brooklyn Rail, brilliantly edited by @earmani.bsky.social and Katy Siegel: “Bicentennial Women: Feminism, Antifeminism, and Craft” brooklynrail.org/2026/07/crit...