Elizabeth Chase

Elizabeth Chase is a decorative arts and design historian, educator, and advisor with over twenty years of experience working across museums, universities, auction houses, and the private market in the U.S. and Europe. She has held specialist roles at Christie’s and Art Peritus and is the co-founder and partner of Artecase, a Paris-based advisory practice specializing in sourcing vintage and contemporary decorative arts and design for private collectors and interior designers. She recently completed writing her first book, We, the Collectors, which examines the psychology, history, and ethics of collecting in contemporary culture. 

Based in Washington, DC, she has taught and advised graduate students at George Washington University, Parsons Paris, and the Smithsonian Associates. Her curatorial work includes exhibitions at the Cooper Hewitt and Smithsonian Design Museum, and her writing has appeared in Cultured magazine. Her scholarship and teaching focus on collecting practices, decorative design history, Modern design, and the cultural, ethical, and economic forces that shape luxury markets.  

Fluent in French and conversational in Spanish, Chase regularly lectures for museums and cultural institutions and works at the intersection of scholarship, market expertise, and public engagement.