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Tag Archives: jewelry
2016: Christmas Cheer on Fifth Avenue
It may be a hopeful sign that New York’s prime shopping boulevard is defying the political unrest that is settling on the world. The city’s big stores came up with an enchanting extravaganza of Christmas windows endowing Midtown Manhattan … Continue reading
The Worsham-Rockefeller Dressing Room at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Two very different women, the socially striving Arabella Worsham and the retiring Laura Spelman Rockefeller, occupied the lavish Gilded Age dressing room that joined the period rooms in the American wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art beginning in … Continue reading
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Aladdin’s Cave
If you love jewelry—and many of us do—hurry to the Metropolitan Museum and visit Jewels by JAR. For a short hour you’ll escape the real and virtual miseries of the world and reside in a wonderland of colors, glitter, larger-than-life … Continue reading
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Branching: Thoughts of an Ever-Curious Author 