Originating from the private collection of Stanley and Polly Stone, the foundation uses its objects and resources to support decorative arts projects and publications at other institutions, seeking to find "newer ways to look at old things.".
The exhibit has examples of furniture with upholstery removed to show construction comparisons of real antiques verses ones that have been faked.
The Chipstone Foundation publishes two significant annual scholarly journals: American Furniture and Ceramics in America.
[7] Material Intelligence is a digital magazine that celebrates the human capacity to understand and shape the physical world around us.
Together, the stories they tell illuminate vital, at times unexpected connections: between art and science, history and contemporary life, the tangible and the intangible.