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 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

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 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 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

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 9, 2012

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...
October 9, 2012

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...