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Michael Loeb’s mansion on East 72nd Street looks more like an extension of the Frick than the home where the venture ...
Home Interiors The designer's room: How rare, 19th-century wallpaper was repurposed inside a Grade I-listed apartment complex on London's Piccadilly This home in Albany, Piccadilly, was decorated by ...
With dynamic graphics, playful motifs and punchy palettes, these bold wallpapers completely reinvigorate the rooms they ...
The arsenic-laden pages of "Shadows from the Walls of Death" should not be touched without gloves. Shadows from the Walls of ...
A rare 19th-century condom decorated with an erotic etching featuring a nun and three clergymen is going on display at a museum in the Netherlands.
Coaches could soon be banned from a pretty village in the Cotswolds after fed-up locals complained that over-tourism is causing chaos. Bibury was once described by 19th century wallpaper and ...
A 19th-century shipwreck packed with crates of unopened champagne has been found in the depths of the Baltic Sea.
New music dropping after 2 centuries? Waltz of 19th-century composer Frédéric Chopin uncovered The waltz, written on paper the size of an index card, was likely intended as a gift for someone ...
8-year-old kid with a metal detector stumbles upon a 19th century shipwreck Archeologists believe the boy may have found the remains of the St. Anthony, a schooner that crashed in 1856. By Mack ...
The result — scherenschnitte, or scissors cutting in German — enlivens the pages of Ripple’s book, “The Raub Family Country Doctors and Their Medical Flora Remedies in the 19th Century.’’ ...
Curators at George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate sought out rare 18th-century wallpaper for an ongoing restoration project.
Seattleite Tim Greyhavens' new book, “Artistic and Life-Like: Photography in Washington, 1850-1900,” contains more than 200 carefully reproduced, personalized photos.