Decorative Arts 
Pop Pop, Fiz Fiz: Balance and Bubbles
How the arts inspire one another is the alchemy of creative cross-pollination. In architecture and interiors, that interplay is obvious, if not always self-evident (interior des... ...read more
Major Frank Lloyd Wright House to Be … Demolished?
The Phoenix home the master architect built for his son faces the wrecking ball — almost immediately (possibly tomorrow). Read all about it in this article from the NYT. ...read more
Paris: Buzz, Bubbles, Beauté
As any gambler, businessperson, picked-on-kid-in-the-school-yard, equities-trading Wall Street criminal, or sentient human over age 12 knows, when the tide starts to turn fight ... ...read moreOccupy Frankfurt: Capital of Capital … and Culture?
Surprising in a commerce capital stretching from the Middle Ages, Frankfurt brands badly. A city of banks—the seat of the European Central Bank and the German Federal Bank, as w... ...read moreDesign and 007
For 50 years James Bond had shaken and stirred the decorative arts. There’s his fashion: Savile Row to Prada, Armani and Ford, not to mention the various bathing costumes over t... ...read moreMighty Aphrodite
She’s slutty, liberal with her flesh and favors, there’s no getting around that. Nor, truth be told, is she a woman’s woman: her behavior exhibits decided disregard for feminist... ...read moreFabergé Gets Googled
To mark the 166th birthday of Peter Carl Fabergé, head of the renowned jewelry house responsible for the design and manufacture of the Imperial Russian Easter eggs given by the ... ...read moreHack-ing Away at Gotye
You and more than 200 million of your closest friends have likely seen the colorfully cubist, shape-shifting, viral video for the song “Somebody That I Used to Know” (below) by ... ...read more
Puttin’ on a NYC Spring Show
Press releases for middle and top drawer fine and decorative art fairs usually fall in one of two categories: those that highlight dealers’ big guns and jaw droppers; and those ... ...read moreThe 1.4 Billion Euro House, Kinda
Irish artist Frank Buckley has built “Expressions of Recession, Buckley’s Billion Euro House,” a three-room (plus gallery) structure in Dublin created from shr... ...read moreFollow Us
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