| Investing in Wine: Burgundy’s Golden Age |
Summer 2006
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Wine is a lot like art. There are periods in the history of specific regions when a synthesis of great winemaking and outstanding vintages results in a priceless collection. For Bordeaux, the glory days were from 1945 to 1961, and from 1982 to 1990.......
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| Lifestyle: Sojourn on the Sound |
Summer 2006
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In an homage to their life on a lushly planted point overlooking Long Island Sound, not far from the American impressionist art colony of Cos Cob, a well-traveled couple have filled their stately neoclassical-style residence with New England furniture......
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| Lifestyle: Spanish Revival in Los Angeles |
Summer 2006
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This gracefully sprawling Spanish Colonial home could easily be one of Addison Mizner’s Palm Beach villas from the 1920s, or occupy a Spanish hillside, gently mellowing under the Andalusian sun. Instead, it was built in California in 1998 by......
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| The Pleasures of Collecting the Jewelry of Southeast Asia |
Summer 2006
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In 1989, after donating to the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco 200 Thai ceramics dating from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries, James and Elaine Connell began exploring a new area of collecting. In forming their ceramics collection, James,......
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| Winterthur Primer: Alight with Style, Candlesticks of the 17th & 18th Centuries |
Summer 2006
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Candlesticks provide evocative evidence of lives once illuminated only by flame. Their delightful forms add color and texture to a room, contributing to stylish decoration of interior spaces. Candlesticks were most popular during the seventeenth and......
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| Historic Hotels: The Greenbrier, West Virginia |
Spring 2006
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Situated on 6,500 acres in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, The Greenbrier's three championship golf courses, indoor and outdoor tennis...
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| If I had $1 Million |
Spring 2006
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The New York Winter Antiques Show is America’s most prestigious; and is also regarded as one of the important shows internationally. Its seventy-four...
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| Investing in Decorative Arts as an Asset Class |
Spring 2006
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When I was a trader on Wall Street I worked with a long list of brokers and agents upon whom I relied to...
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| Lifestyle: A Tale of Two Cities on Philadelphia's Main Line |
Spring 2006
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"Ours was a typical Cambridge romance,” recalls the Radcliffe-educated wife, married to a Harvard-trained lawyer for the past fifty-six years. Their gracious home on Philadelphia’s Main Line reflects a tale of two cities—the colonial capitals of Boston......
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| Lifestyle: Bailey Island Idyll |
Spring 2006
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Every summer for seventeen years, Jim and Nancy Glazer, their son and daughter in tow, made the long trek from their nineteenth-century Philadelphia townhouse to a...
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