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...
October 11, 2012

Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams team with George Matouk on their debut bedding line

When Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams were looking for a linens company to team with on a signature line of bedding for their eponymous home-furnishings firm, “all roads led to Matouk,” Gold says. For one, the pair were already friendly with the cele...
October 11, 2012

Grandfather Clocks Repair

Grandfather Clocks owners sooner or later, with or without regularly scheduled grandfather clock maintenance including oiling and cleaning, will need to address the inevitable grandfather clock […]