Provenance Journal covers the vintage design movements built on craft and material honesty.
We publish identification guides, designer profiles, restoration content, and home tours for the people who hunt these pieces — at estate sales, on Marketplace, in the wild — and want to know what they’re looking at.
Our coverage focuses on five movements: Mid-Century Modern (1945–1970), Art Deco (1920s–1940s), Art Nouveau (1890–1910), Mission and Arts and Crafts (1900–1920), and Brutalism (1960s–1970s). What they share is a commitment to material honesty and craftsmanship — a rejection of mass-produced sameness in favor of pieces made by people who cared about how things were built.
Whether you’re authenticating a Heywood-Wakefield credenza, restoring a Craftsman bungalow, or trying to tell a real Paul Evans piece from a reproduction, our goal is to help you understand what you’re looking at, what it’s worth, and how to find more like it.
Provenance Journal is independent and reader-supported. We participate in affiliate programs with retailers like eBay, Etsy, Amazon, and Chairish, which means we may earn a commission when you purchase through links on the site. This never affects what we cover or how we cover it.