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...when it was rebuilt in 1833, created this museum in his own house to showcase his massive collection of antiquities, artifacts and copies of Greek and Roman sculptures. Accessed via winding staircases, the narrow galleries are filled with plaster oddities: men fighting with griffins, single feet and knees, an acanthus leaf, a devil's face. Soane intended to create an Academy of Architecture, but ended up with a richly eccentric folly. For more information, go to www.soane.org. - by Lucy Fisher (See 10 things to do in London...
Cartier 1899-1949: The Journey of a Style (Skira) Photographs of 230 dazzling jewels?including delicate floral motifs and earthy acanthus scrolls?capture 50 years of Cartier's history. Additional essays by museum curators offer a surprising new view of the French jeweler...
Turkey was a different story, though. Unlike much of the Mediterranean in the summertime, where tourists are packed on beaches like sardines, Turkey was breathtakingly serene and surprisingly unadulterated. We lived for a week on the 75-foot sailing vessel Acanthus, navigating the incredibly calm, warm, clear waters of the Turkish coast. The sea in this region is dotted with tiny, mountainous islands covered with nothing but trees, rocks and, occasionally, goats. There are no giant hotels spoiling the landscape, and boats are certainly the preferred mode of transportation--most of the places we visited could be reached only...
...postmodernism seeks to reconnect functional glass-box modern with historic architecture. Says Roche: "I don't see history as an issue. I never lost sight of it. At a time when most American architecture students were taught to disdain the lessons of the past, I had to draw acanthus leaves and the classic columns. Back in Dublin, we got rigid, old-fashioned Ecole des Beaux-Arts training...
...book opens on small worlds of piety and delight. It is a facsimile re-creation of a Book of Hours made, circa 1478, for the daughter of the last great Duke of Burgundy by a master miniaturist. His biblical figures, mock tourneys, glimpsed landscapes and rich borders decked with acanthus rolls, peacock feathers, shells and fabulous birds and beasts brilliantly profit from the example of the Limbourg brothers and Jan Van Eyck...