Art & Home – November 2016 Issue
Inside This Issue
Sound Design: Harmonious Home Music Rooms
Libraries beckon with books, home theatres lure with films, and music rooms summon with sound. For centuries in aristocratic households, music rooms were de rigueur, and a musical education was a cultural imperative.
An Art Lover’s Weekend in Washington, DC
There was a time, not so long ago, when Washington, DC, capital of the US and a centre of global political power, was treated by leisure travelers as it was by senators, members of congress and diplomats: get in and out as fast as you can. No longer. This charming, vibrant American city affords many great reasons to linger.
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Palm Beach’s Perfect Palazzo
In 1930, Joseph Widener, the scion of a Philadelphia transportation fortune, commissioned renowned Swiss architect Maurice Fatio to build an impressive estate in Palm Beach. Known as Il Palmetto, Widener’s new palazzo was situated on more than five acres stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to Lake Worth.
The Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Turns 85
Now a high-end staple, the signature swivel-faced Reverso, whose details are hidden on the back, is in fact a surprisingly recent innovation. Dating only to 1931, it came about
Picasso’s Ceramics: True to Form
Picasso’s Ceramics: True to FormOver many summer holidays in the South of France, famed actor and director Lord Richard Attenborough built one of the finest collections of Picasso ceramics in the world.