August 22, 2012

The Sea Inside

With their crashing waves and roiled skies, the later landscapes of Winslow Homer (1836–1910) remain among the moodiest masterpieces in the history of American art. The painter produced many of his best along the rocky coast of Prouts Neck, Maine, wh...
August 22, 2012

Digitally Enhanced Antiques

For years Manhattan art and antiques dealer R. Louis Bofferding avoided the Internet. So much about the online experience disturbed the soft-spoken, soigné Midwesterner—the disquieting immediacy, the farrago of information, and, most of all, the bea...
August 20, 2012

Private Screening

View SlideshowWith the economy languishing, a home screening room could be considered an embarrassment of riches; not all celebrities will admit to having one, especially in Manhattan, where an extra room of any kind is a luxury. So the Inquisitiv...
August 20, 2012

Fermoie, an innovative new British textile collection, launches

Martin Ephson and Tom Helme recently debuted Fermoie, a textile company that is the culmination of an idea the two have shared since the early days of their partnership. (The pair were former co-owners of the celebrated British paint-and-wallpaper comp...
August 17, 2012

Home Truths

“Buy the best and you’ll only cry once” seems to be the mantra for mother-daughter design duo Suzanne and Lauren McGrath. The pair’s latest project is Good Bones, Great Pieces: The Seven Essential Pieces That Will Carry You Through a Lifetime (...
August 17, 2012

Quiet Escape

Helsinki, though smartly turned out enough to be crowned the 2012 World Design Capital, is still at times an overwhelming city—and city folks can always use a break. Finns and visitors will now find one in Narinkka Square at the Kamppi Chapel of Sile...
August 15, 2012

Water Colors

The spire of the Empire State Building. The peaked arches of the Brooklyn Bridge. The rooftop water tower. For New Yorkers, all three are synonymous with the city’s skyline. But the water tower, that humble relic from a bygone era when any building o...
August 14, 2012

Showroom Special

Christopher Guy, the Florida-based luxury home-furnishings brand, recently put its glamorous stamp on an expansive new flagship in the center of West Hollywood. Designed by founder Christopher Guy Harrison, the 10,000-square-foot bright-white space sho...
August 14, 2012

Assouline publishes a vibrant examination of French modernist Fernand Leger

A figure of boundless curiosity and creative brio, French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker Fernand Léger blithely moved between abstraction and figuration, sidestepping the debates that stirred the 20th-century avant-garde. Identified as a Cubist earl...
August 13, 2012

Beijing’s CCTV building turns the skyscraper on its side

The CCTV building may well feel familiar. Long an eye-catching presence on Beijing’s skyline, it broke ground back in 2004. Still, that hardly makes its completion—in May, after eight years and one devastating fire—any less significant. Designed ...