Fashion & Furniture

"Design is a constant challenge to balance

comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable."

— Donna Karan

 

A rare high back lounge/wing/parlor chair.
Designed by Edward Wormley for Dunbar 1944

 

Monumental Venini 8 Tier Chandelier Italy 1960s

British designer Kim Jones shows his Fall 2013 collection for Louis Vuitton as part of Paris Men's Fashion Week on January 17, 2013 in Paris, France.

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Misty Morning in Manhattan NYC

"EVERY DAY is the start of something beautiful." 

Seeking for light in a foggy morning.
Upper East, Manhattan.

 

 
"It's Good To Be Different!"

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Old Master Painting - Panini

"Be Brave. Take Risks." 

- Paulo Coelho

Giovanni Paolo Panini (Piacenza 1691-1765 Rome) 

View of the Campidoglio, Rome 
oil on canvas 46¾ x 49½"
Currently for viewing at NYC.

Sold @ $3,442,500.00

Giovanni Paolo Panini (Piacenza 1691-1765 Rome) 
View of Saint Peter's Square, Rome 
oil on canvas 
46¾ x 48½ in. (118.8 x 123.2 cm.) 

Sold@ US$$2,098,500.00 

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Tick Tock Tick Tock

"YOUR LIFE IS YOURS AND YOURS ALONE. 

Rise up and live it."

- Terry Goodkind

A French Ormolu and Green Marble Mantel Clock
19th century 

20¼" high x 20 ½" wide x 6" deep. 

Seen @ NYC auction house


A stunning piece on the mantel or sideboard 
exquisite craftsmanship 

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Morning in NYC

“TODAY A NEW SUN RISES FOR ME; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it. ” Ninon de Lenclos quotes (French courtesan, Her beauty and wit attracted famous men of the day; wrote La Coquette Vengee (1659). 1620-1705)

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Beautiful Silver Coffee Cup

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, 

we must carry it with us or we find it not." 

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

American Silver Coffee Cup ca 1910

Coffee cups and saucers, the plates each with trellis, vase and flower border. The coffee cups with Lenox porcelain liners, the plates marked sterling, marked Shreve & Co. SAN FRANCISCO. Seen @ NYC.

Coffee would taste great in this beautiful cup!

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Magic

Angkor Wat

Siem Reap, Cambodia.

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Empire Side Cabinet

“DWELL ON THE BEAUTY OF LIFE. 

Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” 

― Marcus Aurelius

An Empire Ormolu-mounted mahogany side cabinet ca 1805. This cabinet has a rich mixture of Egyptian and Classical iconography, reflects the a l'antique style promoted by Charles Percier and Pierre Fontaine in their Recueil des decorations Interieures, the first installment of which was published in 1801.

This item was shown @ NYC auction house.

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Beautiful Living - TableTop

"YOU are the creator of your own Beautiful Living."

What a fun tableware from VILLEROY and BOCH. 

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January Gallery - Photography

"LIFE Is A Gift Wrapped In A Miracle." 

- J. Johnson 

"THE POETRY OF THE EARTH IS NEVER DEAD." 
- John Keats 

"WHAT I dream of is an art of balance." 

- Henri Matisse 

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White Grand Piano

"WHAT WE'VE TO DO IS KEEP HOPE ALIVE. 

BECAUSE WITHOUT IT WE'LL SINK." 

- John Lennon 

A "John Lennon" grand white piano 

available @ Steinway Piano.

This piano would be a good statement 

in your living or garden room, and keeps hope alive!

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Marble

“I THINK OF LIFE as a good book. 

The further you get into it, 

the more it begins to make sense.” 

- Harold Kushner

Below items were shown 

@ NYC Auction House recently. 

A Roman marble portrait bust of the 

Emperor Marcus Aurelius 

as seen @ Art Auction House NYC. 

Ca 170 - 180 AD. 35 ½" high

"Take my hand. 

Hold my hand. Don't let me go."

  'Amore E Psiche' by Salvatore Albano. 

Florence dated 1881

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Morning @ Carl Schurz Park

ARCHITECTURE

"My work is not about “form follows function”,

but “form follows beauty” or, even better, 

“form follows feminine”. 

- Oscar Niemeyer 

Gracie Mansion

showered with morning sunlight 

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