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...eight different kinds of wood; charming Angelika Kaufmann medallions released from decades of dust and grime; and, everywhere, sparkling chandeliers copied from the originals where necessary by the Austrian crystal specialist Swarovski. In the Gold Cabinet, the smallest of the staterooms, gilders used a special "Albertina" mix of 23-carat gold plus one-carat silver and copper to renew the extravagant wall paneling to its original sheen, while the Hall of the Muses, a former Habsburg ballroom, has breathtaking newly restored sculptures of Apollo and the Nine Muses. Some of Europe's most acclaimed architects and designers took part...
...through the applications and he had the hardest time picking, because he said the quality of the students here is great,” he says. “This is a wonderful problem to have, but at the same time it’s like picking between 18-carat gold and 14-carat gold...
...carat rock he bought her should help get his point across. While Chehi is hardly the first guy to propose on Valentine's Day, not everybody is willing to pay thousands of dollars for a piece of jewelry they've only seen online. Chehi bought his $6,000 platinum band and princess-cut diamond from blue nile.com the largest online jeweler, which is sending it to him via courier. It's perhaps a sign of the buying public's increased confidence in e-commerce that online jewelry sales are growing fast, with more than $1 billion in U.S. sales...
Despite their high prices, diamonds turn out to be one of the easiest jewels to buy on the Web because their quality is precisely defined by technical specifications (the "four Cs": color, cut, clarity and carat weight). High-end shops like bluenile.com diamonds.com ashford.com and mondera.com have detailed buying guides to help make your choices clearer. Blue Nile even has a build-to-order program that lets shoppers choose from 16,000 diamonds and 70 settings. Its online tools let you see, for example, exactly how a pear-shaped diamond will look in a classic solitaire setting...
...women would prefer a high-definition digital TV to a 1-carat diamond ring, says a Consumer Electronics Association survey...