October 11, 2012
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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...
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October 11, 2012
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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...
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October 9, 2012
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Epic Poetry

For his screen adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s operatic novel Anna Karenina, director Joe Wright eschewed ordinary interpretation, opting instead to base the Romanov drama primarily inside a cavernous morphing theater. Candlelit chandeliers descend to su...
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October 9, 2012
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Lego’s new Villa Savoye model builds on the playful relationship between the toy and architecture

The building materials were on site, the plans laid across the table. The would-be client, surveying the detailed drawings, cast a discerning eye and asked: “Are there any doors?” The client was my daughter Sylvie, all of three, and the presumptive...
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October 8, 2012
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Plus Ça Change

A couple weeks ago, grape pickers in Champagne, France, began the monthlong harvest, or les vendanges, as the locals say. The winemakers will then do a single press of the three grape varieties used to make Champagne —Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Pino...
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October 8, 2012
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Links We Love: What we’re reading this week

1. Artinfo examines the architecture- and art-inspired designs at Paris Fashion Week.2. Curbed explores the whimsical, eye-catching decor featured in Google offices around the world.3. Designboom previews Rotterdam-based architecture firm MVRDV’s...
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October 5, 2012
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London’s newly restored William Morris Gallery reopens

London’s William Morris Gallery, which reopened August 2 following a more than $15 million renovation, celebrates the life and work of the radical Arts and Crafts movement figurehead, who has influenced everything from J.R.R. Tolkien to modern-day ch...
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October 3, 2012
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The Unknown Astor

The media frenzy surrounding the auction of philanthropist Brooke Astor’s estate—which last week brought $18.8 million at Sotheby’s—should be echoed to some degree at Stair Galleries in Hudson, New York, on October 5. But it likely won’t, due...
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October 2, 2012
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A stunning estate being auctioned anonymously by Christie’s in Paris turns out to have quite the outré backstory

View SlideshowThe convoluted amour known as a ménage à trois is the sort of entanglement typically conducted out of the public eye. But an auction being held this week at Christie’s in Paris brings back into the spotlight the French capital’s ...
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October 2, 2012
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The International Fine Art & Antique Dealers Show returns to the Park Avenue Armory October 19

Connoisseurs, mark your calendars. Starting October 19, Manhattan’s Park Avenue Armory will host the weeklong 24th annual International Fine Art & Antique Dealers Show. As an opening-night sponsor, Architectural Digest will fête dozens of intern...
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