November 22, 2012
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An Exhibition in Berlin Gives New Life to Ancient Artifacts

The 3,400-year-old painted limestone bust of Nefertiti, on permanent display at Berlin’s Neues Museum, is so stunningly lifelike and lovely that it more than lives up to the Egyptian queen’s name, which loosely translates to “the beautiful one ha...
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November 22, 2012
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Finely Made Clocks Emerge as Connoisseur Favorites

At the new Patek Philippe boutique on Rodeo Drive, all attention is on a one-of-a-kind enamel dome clock designed with two of California's best-loved symbols
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November 19, 2012
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Jayne Wrightsman’s magnificent jewels on the block at Sotheby’s

American philanthropist Jayne Wrightsman (pictured with Broadway producer Gilbert Miller) has long been an astute patron of the fine and decorative arts, funding period rooms at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and commissioning influential interiors by ...
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November 19, 2012
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Cinema Studies

In 2016, if all goes according to plan, Los Angeles will have a new architectural showpiece and yet another place of pilgrimage for movie buffs—the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Created by the organization thanked in Oscar acceptance speeches, a...
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November 16, 2012
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Links We Love: What we’re reading this week

1. Vanity Fair’s Paul Goldberger reports on the controversial $300 million renovation of the main branch of the New York Public Library.2. Architizer showcases its ten favorite academic buildings at universities around the world.3. Sous Style tal...
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November 16, 2012
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Mixing It Up

Equal parts fine artist and furniture designer, Christophe Côme is known for fusing gutsy metal with refined glass to make sculptural tables, screens, light fixtures, and other creations. For his latest body of work, on view at the Cristina Grajales G...
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November 15, 2012
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Luxury furniture maker Dorya opens an elegant new showroom in Istanbul

With its striking new showroom, the luxury home-furnishings and interiors brand Dorya is bringing some modern panache to one of Istanbul’s most historic neighborhoods.Located on the street Akaretler Yoku?u...
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November 15, 2012
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Two new exhibits illustrate how paintings can capture the beauty of interiors

View SlideshowBefore photography became the dominant medium to record the world around us, homeowners of a monied milieu—kings, nobles, landed gentry—relied on meticulously detailed paintings, particularly watercolors, to portray their rooms . T...
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November 13, 2012
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Harbor Mastor

Renzo Piano is perhaps most famous for designing museums—typically white and pristine—but he has also long proved that he can’t be typecast. The architect’s latest surprise is in Oslo, where his new home for the Astrup Fearnley Museet, a privat...
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November 12, 2012
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Tiffany & Co. created beauty in the most unlikely of places—a construction site

Tiffany & Co.’s latest New York outpost—located in a space that spans a SoHo block between Greene and Wooster Streets—boasts interiors featuring elements designed by an impressive array of artisans including Michele Oka Doner and John Opella,...
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