
Marni Jameson: What to do when design styles collide
When I asked how a modern glass-and-chrome coffee table could live in a room with a country pine table, Kilmer-Purcell suggested painting an accent wall in a distressed (vintage) metallic (modern) finish. He also liked my idea of setting an old vintage ...
Top tips for destination decor
Maps, those essential traveller accessories, make a brilliant wall decoration, and Digetex Home has a vintage-style Old Paris Map for walls, from £79. Alternatively, feature an iconic Clock-watch, until your next trip, with a French-style Newgate ...
Review: Stanley Whitney's Paintings Reinvent the Grid
Sometimes it leaps ahead and challenges us to keep up, as with Malevich's black square of 1915, Jackson Pollock's dripped skeins from the late 1940s, or Frank Stella's shaped canvases and metallic stripes of the early '60s. And Karma, a gallery and ...
30 of the world's best hotel bars
With its Baccarat chandeliers, antique fireplace, damask walls and Chesterfield armchairs, this Victorian-themed bar is one undoubtedly classy establishment. Top shelf bottles are offered alongside champagne cocktails and staples like the sherry ...
Studio Oliver Gustav's Shocking Danish Designs
In the shop—a short walk from the Old Stage of the Royal Danish Theater—a client might find urn-like objects from German goldsmith Peter Bauhuis, whose rough-hewed bronze and silver pieces run from dark orange to metallic gray to mottled brown. The ...
A Victorian House with Steampunk Style
He studied psychology and marketing but is now a designer of Steampunk art ranging from fountains made of antique industrial parts to a computer work station fashioned from a Victorian pump organ. Often thought of as a science-fiction subculture, ...
10 Galleries to Visit on the Upper East Side
IN terms of New York City gallery history, the Upper East Side, roughly from 57th Street northward, is the establishment, the old regime. Galleries that put the city on the international map in the 1950s started here. Several of our big museums call ...