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  • A Conversation with Design Master Giulio Cappellini

    Even if you’ve never heard of Giulio Cappellini, or the eponymous design studio he’s run for three decades, chances are you’ve seen some of the furniture maker’s quizzically shaped, brightly hued tables, couches and cabinetry. If not in top style mags like Elle Decor, Dwell and Architectural Digest, then on display at prestigious museums like…

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  • The Comeback: Cut Glass Gets a Modern Update

    During the Victorian era, hand-blown, intricately patterned glass was a stylish sign of wealth. European aristocrats and American tycoons used it to transform their salons into jewel boxes, lining the rooms with gleaming vases, goblets and treys. But, similar to carriage making and shoe cobbling, the craft fell out of favour in the early 20th…

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  • The Hot List: Who I’ll Be Ogling at the 2012 Olympics

    In the June 25, 2012 issue of The New Yorker, staff writer Adam Gopnik notes that “we are about to enter that period, which occurs every four years, when [we] become passionate about athletes we have never heard of participating in games we do not follow trying to please judges we cannot see according to…

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  • Ai Weiwei, You’re Hot

    Dear Ai Weiwei, I think you’re hot. It’s not because I have a thing for beards, bellies or artists, because I don’t. (Especially artists — imagine what it would be like to date Jeff Koons? Scary. You’re bits and bites would be on display). It’s because, as the New Yorker‘s Culture Desk noted, you’re an…

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