by Isabelle Kellogg Luke Haynes hasn’t stopped quilting since he started toying around with small snippets of fabric on a sewing machine ten years ago. By now, he’s worked past his 100th quilt, many of which have been on view at recent shows across America, including his native city of […]
Fashion
ART WYNWOOD PREPARES TO OPEN IN MIAMI FEB 16-20, 2012
The Art Miami, LLC partnership team has elected to focus its efforts on the burgeoning Miami art market with its launch of the inaugural Art Wynwood Fair for President’s Day Weekend, February 16 – 20, 2012 in Miami. The five-day fair has already attracted a list of well-respected international dealers […]
New Orleans Treasure Hunt M.S. Rau Antiques celebrates its Centennial in March, and continues to raise the bar on collecting
by Isabelle Kellogg As owners of the country’s largest and oldest antiques, fine arts and estate jewelry dealers in the US, the Rau family has seen its share of ups and downs over the decades at its historic gallery located in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Three generations of […]
Lily, Duchess of Marlborough (1854—1909): A Portrait with Husbands A new book casts light on America’s unknown “Buccaneer.”
by Sally E. Svenson Jennie Jerome, mother of Winston Churchill, was one. Consuelo Vanderbilt, wife of Winston’s cousin, the Duke of Marlborough, was another. But it is not widely known that there were three American women who married into the illustrious Churchill family of England in the last third of […]
Art Notes from Monaco 2012
by David Shilling T he Festive Season comes and goes but even in this era when we are all concerned over the ongoing financial crisis and its far reaching effects and we are laden down with gilt and guilt, in some areas we have never been more festive. And have […]
Jewels AT Christies: Glittering Prizes
The auction of Elizabeth Taylor’s jewels AT Christies has New York in a tizzy. by Sara Evans New York City is lit up for the holidays. And nowhere is it more glittering than in Rockefeller Center, where the Christmas tree is arguably the most beautiful ever—and a stone’s throw away, […]