October 16, 2012

A London Revival

Who better to resurrect London’s Café Royal as a hotel than Sir David Chipperfield, the British architect famous for bringing Berlin’s Neues Museum back to life from ruin? His overhaul of the 147-year-old hot spot, long a beloved haunt of the crea...
October 16, 2012

Restoration Hardware debuts a new collection of bespoke linen bedding

Restoration Hardware has partnered with textile expert Matthew Lenoci on a refined line of garment-dyed bedding. The collection, which is crafted by a team of artisans, comes in 18 complimentary hues. From deep chocolate to indigo-blue to light moss, t...
October 16, 2012

Grandfather Clocks Testimonials

Perhaps we are being overly modest.  At least once every week, we at 1-800-4CLOCKS have a grandfather clocks shopper who ends up purchasing a discount grandfather […]
October 15, 2012

Bathrooms designed for relaxing—and entertaining

Of all the domestic rooms that human beings have at their disposal, the bath is the perpetual underachiever. Think about it: Ablutions only take so long, no matter how exquisitely hand-milled the soap or costly the unguents, and very often a bath, howe...
October 15, 2012

Blastoff

Even without the staid academic edifices that surround it on the Michigan State University campus in East Lansing, the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum would be a startling sight, its stainless-steel façades folded accordion-style and angled as if read...
October 14, 2012

Grandfather Clocks Made in Germany

Customer-focused grandfather clocks stores like ours always try to keep our finger on the pulse of our customers’ wants and needs.  Interestingly, more and more grandfather […]
October 13, 2012

World-class designers celebrate the Los Angeles Antiques Show’s Opening Night

View SlideshowThe usual gaggle of film and television stars was largely absent from Wednesday night’s gala opening of the Los Angeles Antiques, Art + Design Show, but no one seemed to miss them. Top-notch designers and serious collectors came out...
October 12, 2012

Links We Love: What we’re reading this week

1. Dezeen tours the angular Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, architect Farshid Moussavi’s first building in the United States.2. New York previews the massive (and massively ambitious) Hudson Yards development on Manhattan’s West side, sched...
October 12, 2012

Profound Realization

In design, as in life, patience is a virtue. Plenty was required, to be sure, in the case of New York City’s Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park. Progress on the presidential memorial—located on Roosevelt Island and named for FDR’s 1941 Stat...
October 11, 2012

City Greens

Decorators deploy any number of secret weapons to create memorable rooms. One of Charlotte Moss’s, surprisingly enough, is a Canon EOS 5D Mark II digital camera. As visitors to the International Fine Art & Antique Dealers Show will see when the a...