The Fantasy of a Cotswolds Country Home Meets Reality in Westchester
The plan was to do a quick cosmetic update. Then a couple found out the plumbing, electrical and septic systems were shot. And the house was sinking.
June 1, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
Like so many renovation projects, the transformation of Keren and Thomas Richter’s 1850s farmhouse in Pound Ridge, N.Y., involved no shortage of surprises.
When the couple, partners in an interior design firm called White Arrow, found a rundown house in late 2017, they assumed they could refresh it with a cosmetic renovation, and that it would serve as a bucolic weekend escape from their primary home in Brooklyn. Both of those assumptions turned out to be wrong.
Gehryâs Quiet Interventions Reshape the Philadelphia Museum
No billowing sails of glass or glimmering titanium in the renovation of the museumâs Beaux-Arts home. Equally surprising are several new shows and the American galleries.
Gehry Partners reestablished the vaulted walkway, left, a Guastavino-tiled corridor spanning the length of the main building, as a main access in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The Piranesian switchback staircase, right, is Gehryâs âonly concession to showiness,â our critic says.Credit.Steve Hall, via Philadelphia Museum of Art
May 30, 2021, 8:38 a.m. ET
PHILADELPHIA â You know whatâs chicer than spending a ton on a landmark building? Spending a ton and barely showing it.
Last fall, with the Medici Chapel in Florence operating on reduced hours because of Covid-19, scientists and restorers completed a secret experiment: They unleashed grime-eating bacteria on the artist’s masterpiece marbles.
Some Famous Gems Get a New Setting
The Star of India, the Patricia Emerald and others return to public view in the newly redesigned halls at the American Museum of Natural History.
The 563-carat, nearly flawless Star of India is one of the celebrity gems on display at the redesigned Allison and Roberto Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals.Credit.Amr Alfiky/The New York Times
By Tanya Dukes
May 23, 2021, 5:12 a.m. ET
To reach one of the most anticipated new destinations in New York City, you have to sidestep dinosaur fossils and hang a right at the cluster of meteorites. It’s a long and winding road to a gemstone jackpot.