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We’ll Never Be Royals
…but we can serve dinner as if we are, thanks to Bernardaud! Nest Nest Nest features the Alliage pattern. As I write this, I can feel the design energy draining from the Americas as the...
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An Unsung Hero of Modern Design
A “Playboy” magazine cover from 1961 featuring modernism’s great designers. Edward Wormley is second from the left. Resurrecting pivotal eras in design is irresistible to vanguards who understand that...
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The Red Carpet Treatment
The entry of The National Arts Club, nestled at the edge of Gramercy Park. Image copyright Dmadeo, courtesy Wikimedia. There is a momentum to writing that, once interrupted, is challenging to reboot....
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I Met Virginia Woolf in This Room
Michael Gregson (Charlie Edwards) and Lady Edith in the London flat she inherits after he disappears; image courtesy Carnival Films. Who else is relieved that Lady Edith Crawley, played by Laura...
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Dining with History
A square cachepot in the Marie Antoinette pattern produced by Bernardaud. A month from Sunday, I’ll be winging my way to Paris to attend Maison & Objet, and I’m thrilled to say I’ve been invited to...
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Renovating During the Tudor Era
Armored horses and riders in The Emma and Georgina Bloomberg Arms and Armor Court, in the John Pierpont Morgan Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Image © Saxon Henry. Hindsight is 20/20, as they...
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Find Your Red Carpet
Currey & Company’s Brand Ambassador Denise McGaha and Vice President/Creative Director Cecil Adams. “Find Your Red Carpet,” urged Currey & Company’s Brand Ambassador Denise McGaha during a...
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Peggy Guggenheim Visits Oculus Gallery
The cover of JoAnn Locktov’s new book Dream of Venice Architecture. In 2009, I trekked to Venice with my dear friend JoAnn Locktov, the founder of Bella Figura Publications whose newest book Dream of...
View ArticleFor Aesthetes and Decadents Beauty Is Difficult
Moving through the London literary scene during the fin de siècle was not a comfortable ride. Oscar Wilde is one of the most explosive examples but others who navigated those restrictive streets and...
View ArticleThe Seat of Scottish Power
As the opening credits roll during the film Her Majesty, Mrs Brown, a Markino marble bust, which has been tossed over a castle’s ramparts, tumbles through the air toward the ground. When the work of...
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