November 19, 2012

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 ...
November 19, 2012

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...
November 16, 2012

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...
November 16, 2012

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...
November 15, 2012

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...
November 15, 2012

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...
November 13, 2012

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...
November 12, 2012

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,...
November 12, 2012

Amazing Angles

Designed by London-based architect Farshid Moussavi, the new home for the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Cleveland cuts a fine and enigmatic figure. Situated at an unassuming uptown intersection, the recently opened, nearly 34,000-square-foot, four-...
November 12, 2012

Weight Driven Grandfather Clocks

When shopping for heirloom quality grandfather clock discounts, educated grandfather clocks customers know to look for weight driven grandfather clocks and floor clocks.  Historically, weight driven […]