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Colombia's treasures revealed

Although the prize remained elusive, the lure of El Dorado endured, and the discovery of precious stones and metals around the lake led to the founding of the Colombian capital in 1538. bikes and peddled through shiny financial and commercial ...

Reflections on Walter Benjamin 5.

One could then see how the Nachleben der Antike, or afterlife of the antique, expressed itself in certain forms of Renaissance art, or how a figure from our primal history could shed the violence that had once accrued about it, become de-demonized in ...

HuffPost's Office Makeover Is The Ultimate White Box Challenge

As an homage to the great city of New York, Wakefield says she then began adding color with "The Gates" (Christo) prints from AllPosters.com and a colorful gallery wall. "The pieces include high end, original artwork by Seanna Noonan Book , a new ...

New luxury ship to boast elaborate cooking school

A new cruise ship that's being billed as the most luxurious ever will have one of the most elaborate cooking schools at sea. Luxury line Regent today announced the 750-passenger Seven Seas Explorer will feature a dedicated room for cooking classes ...

Here's Why Copper Pipe Is The DIY Material You Never Knew You Needed

The hardware store is hardly the place you turn to for decorating inspiration, especially if you hit the plumbing aisle ill-informed. Where you see mundane fixes for your leaky sink, the clever minds over at Sweet Paul magazine see beautiful home ...

Hosseini is Kearney's only master mender of timepieces

Amid grandfather clocks, wall clocks, mantel clocks, Seiko watches and a few dainty cuckoo clocks, Saadat Hosseini sits peering through a magnifying loop at a tiny hair spring that is just .02 millimeters in size, as tiny as the head of a pin. He is ...

The Shape of Things to Come

To our left was an open kitchen with tables and benches, a vintage Faema espresso machine, and a wall of books that included “100 Superlative Rolex Watches” and a study of Joe Colombo, the designer best known for his round-cornered Kartell storage ...

Antiques and Collecting by Terry and Kim Kovel: Tin toys are popular with today's collectors

Clockwork toys have gears and parts like those used on a clock. In 1862 ... you can nail or screw the opener to the wall. I think there are three more with different faces. Should I keep looking for them in antiques shops or just give up?

The Game

The cool metal door ... street to the clock shop. The Olde Style lights above the walnut-door shown yellowley out onto the cream-colored sidewalk. I opened the door like it had never been locked before and stepped into a looming maze of wall and ...

A bitter pill: How Syria broke my grandfather's heart

And there, leaning against a wall, he would study for his upcoming examinations ... He would keep them in the green metal safe that still sits in my grandparents' room today. Then, in 1957, at the age of 30, he bought a three-storey building in an upscale ...

Rapid-Sell.ca a Division of David Moore 038 Associates Announces Extensive Private Antique Clock Dispersal AuctionMuseum Quality

The elegant collection includes longcases from several countries around the world Viennese wall ... of antique musical clocks cathedral clocks antique bronze figural clocks and Austrian Vienna regulators. Many include the ultimate in decorative metal ...

Wine Suggestions For a Hoppy Easter

Flat Rock Riesling 2013 Canada A pale lemon green colour and I detected a slight effervescence ... this wine was aged in combination of French oak(just 1/3 new) and Stainless Steel. The palate is rich with just the right amount of toasted oak characteristics.