August 21, 2022“Too many cooks spoil the broth” goes the old adage. That can certainly be true when it comes to creating a home, which may involve an architect, an interior designer, an art adviser, a builder and countless subcontractors. It’s a process in which poor communication, differences of opinion and inconsistency of approach among […]
April 17, 2022When journalists and vintage dealers started calling François Touret back in 2015, he was surprised. They were inquiring about the furniture created by the collective Les Artisans de Marolles (the Craftsmen of Marolles), founded by his father, Jean, in 1950 and named for the small village in France’s Loire Valley where it was […]
April 24, 2020French photographer and filmmaker Sarah Moon is known for dreamlike images that resemble moments of reverie frozen in time. “For me, photography is pure fiction, even if it comes from life,” Moon has said. “I start from nothing. I make up a story that remains untold, I imagine a situation that doesn’t really […]
June 16, 2019There is a disruptive movement among some millennials in the jewelry design world right now. I am not talking about the ones embracing new technologies like 3-D printing or lab-grown diamonds. The real revolutionaries are a small group working at the opposite end of the spectrum. They are making jewelry the old-fashioned way: […]
Photographer Rob Woodcox uses the human form creatively, by asking dancers to pose in diverse positions. As Rob creates each piece of artwork, he aims to capture fragments of the vivid reality, memory, and vision that embraces life. Through definition is a statement of his experience, and seeks to
August 18, 2019When bringing a majestic 1924 Parisian residence back to its original grandeur, London-based interior designer Bryan O’Sullivan spent a good deal of time on his hands and knees. He assumed this unlikely posture during the many visits he and his studio director, Evelyn Conway, made to the Nissim de Camondo museum, which occupies […]
August 11, 2019Peter Bohlin describes the site of his latest house as “nuanced.” “There’s a foreground of seagrass,” he says, “followed by an inlet, then a spit of land and, finally, deep water in the background. It’s a small site but a lovely one.” The house he designed for the site, on New York’s Shelter […]
May 29, 2022As an arts and culture journalist, I’ve been interviewing collectors for almost 30 years. One of the earliest was George Way, whose day job was as a butcher at a Pathmark supermarket. He spent much of his life sleuthing out and amassing museum-quality holdings of Dutch and English antiques, especially from the 17th […]
Li Zhong Liang flawlessly combines Classicism, Realism and Impressionism to create a unique mood and captivate his viewer. Here he paints an elegant blue and white ceramic slipper, full of pink and white peonies. Li Zhong Liang attended the Preparatory School of Zhejiang Fine Arts Academy in 1961. He was chosen to join the oil painting department’s staff in 1965. After graduation, Liang moved to Beijing, where he was a professional artist at the Beijing Painting Academy. He is a member of the Chinese Association of Fine Arts Worker Faculty and a member of the China Beijing Fine Arts Academy. He's been honored worldwide and his work can be found in private and museum collections alike.
