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The USS Maine Monument, Central Park
Remember the Maine! To Hell with Spain!The USS Maine was the US Navy's second pre-dreadnought battleship (with the USS Texas); these warships were the first in the US fleet to dispense with the full...
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Sunday Spotlight: World's Oldest Clove Tree Survives World's Oldest Corporation
This Sunday, let's turn to a fascinating historical morality tale, courtesy of Simon Worrall of the BBC. Reporting from the island of Ternate, in the heart of Indonesia's Spice Islands, he recounts the...
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The Boundaries of Central Park
Begun in 1858, the construction of New York City's Central Park was largely completed by 1864, in the midst of the Civil War. The park below 102nd street was fully open by the end of 1863, the same...
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Sunday Spotlight: Bastille Day in Paris
Yesterday at 10:30 in the morning, as on every 14th of July in Paris, delta formations of Mirage fighter jets and lumbering military transports screamed across the leaden skies in successive waves. Oh!...
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Our Excuse is a Book
No, it isn't that we are still on an extended summer vacation in the south of France; in fact, we never had time to take more than a weekend off all year. We indeed have been remiss for not posting...
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We're back with a book: CENTRAL PARK NYC
We're back, and we've returned with a book—well for now, at least the publication date for a book. We are delighted to announce that our publisher, Rizzoli International Publications, will publish...
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Surveillance: Plus ça change...
Spies and spying are much in the news these days. Here we let the duc de Saint-Simon, the famed diarist who chronicled the court of the Sun King in innumerable volumes, take the floor: Not only did...
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Maintenant ouvert! Now open!
Well, we're deep into the second week of la Rentréeand this means that all of Paris's surfeit of boulangeries, agences immobiliers and pressings—the stalwart pillars of the French economy, such as it...
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Central Park NYC: "redefines the coffee table book"
We are extremely pleased to announce that Rizzoli published Central Park NYC: An Architectural View this past Tuesday, September 10, accompanied by a review in that same day's edition of the New York...
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Central Park NYC Exhibition at Didier Aaron, Manhattan
The New York Times T Magazine, 24 October 2013 This past month has been a very busy time as we launched our latest book, Central Park NYC, and prepared an exhibition of the watercolors illustrating...
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Chinoiserie note cards in Architectural Digest
Architectural Digest has featured our new package of Chinoiserie note cards in their latest issue (screen capture below), available at The Frick Collection museum shop in Manhattan and at select...
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Table lanterns are back
In our last post, we mentioned that we have a new design partnership with Libretto Group of New York, manufacturers and distributors of innovative paper products. Libretto's other design partners...
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A Year of Pagodas agenda
As a part of our first season of paper products for Libretto Group, we have also designed an agenda, A Year of Pagodas, that features a dozen spreads of our Chinoiserie fantasy watercolors, one for...
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Celebrating Central Park NYC at Librarie Galignani, Paris
We're delighted to announce that Paris' premier bookstore, the august Librarie Galignani on the rue de Rivoli, will be hosting an evening celebrating publication of Central Park NYC on the fourth...
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Aux barricades, comrades!France toys with its next revolution
Mon dieu! Where to begin? the French government, in a bout of historical amnesia, has decided to erect a nationwide network of electronic "éco-tax" barriers straddling its major highways (which have...
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Franco Maria Ricci's extraordinary labyrinth
On the fertile agricultural plain surrounding Parma, Italy, you can drive for days while visiting the region's spectacular Renaissance towns, churches and villas (below, the view from the terrace of...
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Strawberry Fields
Following is an augmented excerpt of the chapter "Memorials and Monuments" from our latest book,Central Park NYC, published this past September by Rizzoli. Yoko Ono, John Lennon’s widow, conceived...
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La Maîtresse en Titre, an enduring French tradition
As the BBC is fond of calling him lately, "the man said to be the President of France" was—"perhaps"—infamously photographed in a crash helmet, leaving a purported love nest shared with a well-known...
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Help Save the Rizzoli Bookstore in Mahattan
The Rizzoli Bookstore and its iconic Beaux-Arts home at 31 West 57th Street in Manhattan has been slated for demolition to make way for luxury high-rise apartments.We ask everyone concerned for...
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Table lanterns, journals and boxed stationery now available at the AW online...
Some weeks ago, we had announced that, after a much-too-long hiatus, our ever-popular table lanterns have returned, now distributed worldwide through Libretto Group. We are pleased to announce today...
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