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From historic restaurants Laperouse and La Gare, traditional brasseries La Coupole, La Lorraine and Auteuil, the Sir Winston Churchill pub/restaurant, and hotels Relais Christine and Maison Malesherbes to the concept store 86Champs showcasing L’Occitane and Pierre Herme, as well as Cartier boutiques worldwide, go-to architect and designer of the Paris jet set. Laura Gonzalez has left her invigorating mix and...

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Men—namely Josef Hoffmann, Dagobert Peche, and Koloman Moser—ruled at the Wiener Werkstätte, the powerfully influential but short-lived Viennese design firm in operation from 1903 to 1932. But scores of women were integral, too, though only scholars and dealers seem to know much about them today. “We want to change that and draw attention to the talents that we could find through our research,” says Anne-Katrin Rossberg, curator of “Women Artists of the Wiener Werkstätte,” now on view at Vienna’s Museum of Applied Arts (MAK).  That means a sorority ...

Walter Hochauer In the early 1990s, an intact mummy was discovered in the Ötztal Alps, on the Italian-Austrian border, that proved to be more than 5,000 years old. What is known today as Austria has been populated for a very long time; the buildings here are just a blip on the region’s history, but they’re all worth seeing when you’re next there. Earlier versions of the descriptions of these buildings first appeared in 1001 Buildings You Must See Before You Die , edited by Mark Irving (2016). Writers’ names appear in parentheses. Schloss Belvedere The two parts of the 18th-century ...

Freeman's announces highlights included in the European Art & Old Masters sale This major, recently rediscovered painting by Carl Moll. Executed in 1905, Weißes Interieur (White Interior) (Lot 56, $300,000-500,000) has never appeared on the market before. PHILADELPHIA, PA .-Freeman's will hold its latest European Art & Old Masters auction on February 23rd. The sale presents fine art from across the continent, celebrating a multitude of movements and their major artists. Two founders of the Vienna Secession, Carl Moll and Gustav Klimt, headline the auction—highlighted by an elegant interior...