About The Vitrine
A cabinet of curiosities, catalogued. Each object with its plate, its provenance, its story.
The catalogue principle
The Vitrine treats a personal collection the way a small museum treats its holdings: nothing displayed without a label, nothing acquired without provenance, nothing described in language the visitor needs a degree to parse. This journal is the catalogue — the long-form companion to the cases — written for collectors, the merely curious, and anyone who believes an object earns its glass.
What we stand for
What you'll find here
- Catalogue entries with full provenance and condition notes
- Photo plates of each object, front and reverse
- Essays on collecting — what to keep, what to let go
- Acquisition diaries from auctions, fairs, and flea markets