CEO Passions: John Rivers, a Collector With a Cause
John M. Rivers, Jr., whose family has lived in Charleston, South Carolina since the city’s founding in 1670, wants the antique furniture and decorative arts made by Charleston’s artisans to stay in the city. For the past 25 years, he’s been repatriating museum-quality objects that had been taken elsewhere and acquiring others so they’ll all remain in Charleston.


