It was on these trips that she began her lifelong love affair with Islamic art and furniture in particular, pieces inlaid with mother-of-pearl.
Leaked e-mails between her and her husband revealed that she spent time online shopping for expensive jewelry, art and furniture, and e-mailing boutiques in London and Paris.
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The first lady in the past year also seems to have spent much of her time online shopping for expensive jewelry, art, and furniture, and e-mailing boutiques in London and Paris.
Tom Dixon, 46, who taught himself how to weld metal furniture after quitting art school, was selected for his new furniture and lighting designs.
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Crafters and knitters get together and crochet pieces of art to cover public furniture or sculpture.
People can also now sort the real-time feed by categories such as furniture, art or jewelry.
Most of their belongings from Los Angeles, expensive furniture and art accumulated over the years, remain in storage.
Vendors flock to the Freeman Coliseum next door to sell their western wear, furniture, art and other goods.
Mr. Haverland rejected those initial ideas, wary of anything that would steal too much attention from his collection of 20th-century furniture and art.
Sporting an assortment of textiles, ethnic art and locally made furniture, 6 on Sixteen has just six sparsely decorated rooms close to Hoan Kiem Lake.
The photographs were so powerful, they decided to turn their New York apartment into an art gallery, moving furniture into bedrooms, and invited anyone they knew.
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Bancroft moved into it in the 1950s, with midcentury furniture and Asian art on its walls.
It's a colonial-style villa whose seven large guest rooms are painted vivid colors and decorated with antique furniture and contemporary art from the region.
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He said his foray into art storage began about seven years ago, when he and his wife were in Paris collecting contemporary art and mid-century furniture for their Greenwich Village apartment.
Far less enchanting is a gallery that is chiefly devoted to paintings by the young Rembrandt including his dramatically shadowed, gustily proto-Romantic self-portrait, made at the age of twenty-two but is raddled with lesser art, ceramics, and furniture whose presence is justified by the fact that Rembrandt knew and liked their makers.
On Thursday, Christie's will offer French 18th-century furniture and works of art from the collection of Djahanguir Riahi, a Paris businessman devoted to the pursuit of that golden century's greatest creations.
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Li Shichun, who runs the downtown furniture shop Vintiques Shanghai Art Deco, says there used to be a fairly steady flow of Deco pieces onto the market, driven by the demolition of old homes to make way for new construction and a general attitude among locals that Deco furniture wasn't something worth keeping.
The money was allegedly spent on overseas family vacations, cars, art work, jewelry, computers, furniture, and a host of other items.
Through the boom of the late 1980s Volpe reveled in buying pictures, furniture and objets d'art for celebrities like Bruce Willis, Barbra Streisand and Penny Marshall.
That exurban estate is one of Pinault's favorites among six homes and is filled with contemporary art and the 18th-century French furniture favored by his second wife, Maryvonne.
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After Voorjans graduated from the College of Architecture in Hasselt in Belgium, where his parents owned a furniture store, he briefly studied art history in Siena, followed by a course at Sotheby's in London.
But now, as is increasingly common in museums, a more chronological approach prevails, so that varied objects from a given era can be shown in tandem to give a sense of the period fine art, for instance, may be seen alongside furniture, craft items or even machinery beginning with the Middle Ages on the lower floors and culminating with the 20th century under the eaves of the tower galleries.
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Some 100, 000 visitors are expected to view the around 8, 000 objects from 95 French and international dealers in an enormous range of disciplines, including ancient, modern and Asian art, jewelry, weapons, ceramics, glass, furniture, books and tapestries.
In 1940 he became the first head of the industrial design department at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, where he organized a contemporary furniture competition that launched the careers of Eero Saarinen and Charles Eames.
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