The Team

Matthew and Allison started the Company in 2020 after they were recently reunited and discovered a joint love for all things old and beautiful.

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Matthew A. Miller - Recently retired from Wall Street where he was a Portfolio Manager for over 20 years, his interest in the Shakers extends back to his childhood.  He grew up in Guilderland, not far from the first Shaker community at Watervliet, where he first became acquainted with this group of utopia seekers.  His interest was renewed in his early 30s as he was a frequent "antiquer" in the Hudson Valley and admired their work for its simplicity, utility and beauty.  More recently he has taken up the art of Shaker taping to try to unwind.  He is a collector and seller of old things and has placed items in museums across the globe, including a planned exhibit with one of his chairs at the Royal Victoria Museum in Melbourne, Australia.  He lives with his two teenage boys in Bedford, NY, and spends as much time as he can with Allison at his lake house, located almost exactly between the original Watervliet and New Lebanon communities.  In addition, he currently serves on the Boards of the Shaker Heritage Society, which is actively concerned with preserving the integrity of the Watervliet Shaker National Historic District, and the Business Loan Coalition, which is committed to advocating on behalf of the business loan asset class.

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Allison J. Wertheim - Allison is a retired commercial litigator and a recent empty nester with a love for textiles and crafts. She is also a former Board Member and President of the Junior League of Central Westchester, a community service organization in Scarsdale. Acting as a tour guide at the League’s historic headquarters sparked her interest in American antiques and artifacts. She began frequenting the Brimfield Antique Show and collecting several genres of antiques, with which she decorated her home.  Now that her girls are in college, Allison is returning to her love of antiques and textile arts by dealing in antique and vintage quilts and other important objects, dating from the mid-1800s to the early/mid 1900s.