November 7, 2012

World’s Fair

Collectors and designers alike won’t want to miss the Salon: Art + Design, a new fair premiering this week in Manhattan. Sanford Smith, the antiques and art show producer responsible for the annual Outsider Art Fair and the New York Antiquarian Book ...
November 7, 2012

Architectural Digest donates to God’s Love We Deliver’s hurricane relief efforts

In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, Architectural Digest has made a contribution to God's Love We Deliver, the tri-state area's leading provider of meals to people who are too sick to shop or cook for themselves, a charity we support on an ongoing basis. S...
November 5, 2012

Palace Coup

This winter Four Seasons’ first property in Russia—the 177-room Hotel Lion Palace St. Petersburg—will open inside a onetime royal residence. After an artful overhaul by ReardonSmith Architects, the 19th-century building now juxtaposes neoclassica...
November 2, 2012

Operation Renovation

Despite such cinematic cautionary tales as Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) and The Money Pit (1986), Hollywood legends, captains of industry, and the rest of us still fantasize about breathing life into broken-down old properties. To invest...
October 31, 2012

Links We Love: What we’re reading this week

1. Paper jumps across the Atlantic to examine Paris-based architecture studio Atelier Zündel Cristea’s whimsical design for an inflatable trampoline bridge that spans the Seine.2. ArtInfo reports that not even Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is immune fr...
October 25, 2012

The Roaring ’20s

On November 8, the world’s largest assemblage of Art Deco Voisin vehicles goes on display at the Mullin Automotive Museum, in Oxnard, California. Created by Gabriel Voisin, a pioneer of the French aviation industry, the marque was favored by such 192...
October 24, 2012

Chic in Seville

Since 1929, the Hotel Alfonso XIII—commissioned by the Spanish king of the same name—has ruled as the grandest hotel in Seville, Spain. Its reign stands to continue, thanks to a glorious transformation by Hirsch Bedner Associates. To honor local tr...
October 24, 2012

Phaidon’s "20th Century World Architecture" is an atlas of remarkable buildings

At a hefty 832 pages, 20th Century World Architecture: The Phaidon Atlas ($200) takes a truly global and remarkably comprehensive look at projects constructed between 1900 and 1999. There are plenty of familiar landmarks (New York’s Chrysler Building...
October 23, 2012

The Baltimore Museum of Art <br> unveils a new contemporary-art wing on November 18

The Baltimore Museum of Art will step into the spotlight November 18 when it unveils its renovated contemporary-art wing. Displayed in the 35,000-square-foot space will be a savvy collection that includes recently acquired pieces by young talents like ...
October 23, 2012

eBay Grandfather Clock

Did you know that for several years 1-800-4clocks has had a presence on eBay selling both new and antique grandfather clocks, pocket watches, wall clocks, atomic […]