Visits: 26 A special-edition Bovet timepiece celebrates the history and future of the Old War Office building, which now contains residences, a hotel and more. There is a bit of collaboration fatigue in the Swiss watch world these days, but …
Angelina Jolie and the Ghosts of New York Past
Visits: 25 Her new store, Atelier Jolie, occupies an unassuming building on Great Jones Street with an illustrious history. When Angelina Jolie opened her first fashion boutique in a squat, two-story building at 57 Great Jones Street in Lower Manhattan …
Shopping at a Souk, Then a ‘Smart City’
Visits: 39 The neighboring areas in Doha, Qatar, couldn’t be more different when it comes to ambience and goods for sale. Doha’s bustling century-old souk and the Msheireb Downtown Doha, a new environmentally friendly development just a 10-minute walk away, …
When the Neighbors Don’t Share Your Vision (and That Vision Involves ‘Transformers’ Statues)
Visits: 31 A professor decorated a sidewalk in Georgetown with 10-foot sculptures of Bumblebee and Optimus Prime. The well-heeled locals were not pleased. The thing about putting a pair of 10-foot statues of metal-hewn Transformers outside your townhouse in the …
The New Tiffany, Unboxed
Visits: 31 For nearly four years, the Tiffany & Company flagship store on the corner of Fifth Avenue and East 57th Street was shrouded in scaffolding while it underwent a full-bore renovation. In the days before the reopening, set for …
A Hamptons Property Fight Over a Black Whaler’s Homestead
Visits: 25 SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. — Though summer crowds have retreated from this exclusive enclave, one fixture of its landscape has lately become a year-round constant: a large white container truck parked on an overgrown lot by Agawam Lake. Its contents …
Dimes Square Gets the Hotel It Deserves
Visits: 23 Nine Orchard is a boutique destination for a neighborhood that isn’t sure it’s a neighborhood. “I won’t tell you the molding story, but there’s a lot to the molding,” Andrew Rifkin said, standing inside a room in Nine …
‘Bob Ross Experience’ Opens in Indiana, Happy Trees and All
Visits: 29 MUNCIE, Ind. — Lexi Vann was losing her race with Bob Ross. The 19-year-old from Carmel, Ind., sporting a bushy brown Bob wig that defied the stiff Halloween afternoon breeze, dipped her brush into a pool of purple …
The Little-Known Women Behind Some Well-Known Landscapes
Visits: 34 This article is part of our latest Fine Arts & Exhibits special report, which focuses on how art endures and inspires, even in the darkest of times. Frederick Law Olmsted, Calvert Vaux and André Le Nôtre are names …