November 28, 2012

A new book explores the scandals, intriques, and heartbreaking beauty of the Guinness family’s Luggala mansion

View SlideshowIn Ireland, a country with an embarrassment of architectural riches, a little-known house called Luggala—the name is pronounced something like “Lugga-ler”—stands out as an especially picturesque piece of real estate. Accented b...
November 23, 2012

Links We Love: What we’re reading this week

1. Vogue showcases Thornwillow Press’s chic new line of ikat photo albums, notebooks, and iPad cases, created using 19th-century bookbinding techniques.2. Celebrated New York–based lighting designer Lindsey Adelman takes Design Milk inside the cr...
November 23, 2012

Classic Chic

The lavish new volume Ann Getty: Interior Style (Rizzoli, $55) is the first dedicated to the San Francisco decorator. AD chats with the celebrated tastemaker. Architectural Digest: You’re such a passionate collector of art and design. What are you af...
November 22, 2012

An Exhibition in Berlin Gives New Life to Ancient Artifacts

The 3,400-year-old painted limestone bust of Nefertiti, on permanent display at Berlin’s Neues Museum, is so stunningly lifelike and lovely that it more than lives up to the Egyptian queen’s name, which loosely translates to “the beautiful one ha...
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 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 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 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 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...