Sydney is fortunate to have retained a decent collection of art deco architecture but most of it is concentrated in the eastern suburbs, with a smattering around Manly in the north and Brighton-Le-Sands in the south. So to find this heritage-listed example in Balmain is something of a rarity, the ... Read More »
In decor, “traditional” tends to conjure up images of matched furniture sets, prim patterns and buttoned-up formality. But there’s been a revamp, and what’s now being called “new traditional” is a fresher, freer look that honors the classics. The style blends traditional architectural and decorative elements with contemporary ones for ... Read More »
Ten years ago this autumn, a 26-year-old British architect named Scott Kyson opened his own practice, Studio Kyson, in London’s Shoreditch. It was a bold move for a young man who had joined a small architecture practice in Lincoln as an office junior aged 16, but the gamble paid off ... Read More »
Something interesting is happening here. What we might have once described as junk is now fetching large amounts at auction, bought to decorate the thousands of new and renovated apartments built in recent times. Fifty years ago people were picking up similar stuff from op shops like the famous Tempe ... Read More »
Faced with a ban on his movie, director Karan Joharpledged not to work with Pakistani artistes anymore. With the Maharashtra Navmirman Sena (MNS) threatening to disrupt screenings of his movie featuring Pakistani actorFawad Khan along with other Indian film actors, Home Minister Rajnath Singh has had to intervene to assure ... Read More »
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Rising buyer demand and increasingly short supply are lighting a fire under the U.S. housing market. Home prices in August surged on a monthly basis by the largest margin in 11 years, and the annual price gain of 6.2 percent is a sharp acceleration compared to the past two years, ... Read More »
As an ex-serviceman and keen rugby player Prince Harry is not the obvious type to favour pink paint. But it has emerged the young Royal asked decorators to paint his walls in the feminine shade – the must-have shade in interior design at the moment. The revelation was made by ... Read More »
When you visit a museum exhibit, you might be so taken by an item — a striking textile, say, or a cool artwork — that you’d love to actually own it. Museums are feeling you. Many have robust licensing programs with design firms and manufacturers to reproduce patterns or use ... Read More »
Listed on the heels of the star’s very public divorce from Amber Heard, the units in the iconic Eastern Columbia Building are nestled atop the art-deco structure famed for its four-sided clock tower. On the heels of his very public divorce from Amber Heard, Johnny Depp has decided to part ... Read More »
Wealthy buyers often combine units to create a large home. Actor Johnny Depp took another tack when he bought five adjacent penthouses in downtown Los Angeles: He kept them largely separate, living in them “like rooms in a home,” according to real-estate agent Kevin Dees of Partners Trust. Now Mr. ... Read More »
The homes of Oscar Wilde, Benjamin Britten and Anne Lister, a woman considered the “first modern lesbian”, are being relisted as part of a gay history project undertaken by Historic England. The heritage organisation has also announced that the grave of Amelia Edwards, a Victorian novelist and Egyptologist, is to ... Read More »
