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Over 150 years ago, rich women from all over the world came to 7 Rue de La Paix in Paris to be dressed by couturier Charles Frederick Worth, whose eponymous fashion house, founded in 1858 ...

A collaboration between the Petit Palais and the Palais Galliera, it is the first retrospective of the House of Worth ... During the Second French Empire from 1852 to 1870, elaborate costume ...

As I was searching for this week’s feature, I had just finished watching Season Five of “The Parisian Agency” so France was on my mind and this house spoke to me. The Second Empire style became ...

John “Johhny” Bryan Travis Jr. was born in 1922 in Paris to John Bryan “Bryan” Travis Sr. and Edna “June” Edwards, also born in Paris, in 1894 and 1896, respectively. The elder Travis ...

The exhibition encompasses the house’s work from its inception to the 1920s — when famous actresses and singers, such as Sarah Bernhardt, Sophie Croizette and Nellie Melba, wore its clothes on-stage ...

Take the Empty House Party, for instance, another beloved tradition spearheaded by the Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts organization. Over the course of its history, the volunteer-run ...

Within it, Europe is decentered, rescaled, splayed open like a paper fortune teller — a cartographic design unmoored from empire’s grid. I left Reverberations not with the sense of discovery ...

Firefighters say the same house caught fire around 6 p.m. on Thursday, and the second run was due to a rekindling of the first fire. The home sustained heavy damage to the roof and garage ...

With its distinctive rolling roof and mid-century modern design, the historic Miles C. Bates “Wave House” holds a coveted spot on the National Register of Historic Places. DWR chose to outfit ...