Word: colorism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...finding the plushness of such recent furniture trends as floral prints and the deco revival not to your liking, take heart. Many designers still have a love affair with white, minimalism's primary color, and there's nothing quite like its pristine sheen. Here are five products to refresh your palette...
...silk tapestry nod to the pathways of London's parks. The London NYC's guest rooms feel palatial - averaging 42 sq m, they're atypically large in a city of closet-like accommodations. Collins leaves his materials - limed oak, rich leather, creamy cotton - largely unembellished and judiciously uses lush color, like the paisley-patterned wallpaper that could be 21st century William Morris. His best touch combines beauty, comfort and whimsy: the sleek white rocking chair moves like your grandpa's but looks like modern sculpture...
...latter at Domaine du Grollet, the family estate of cognac maker Rémy Martin outside Cognac in southwestern France. In one of its aging cellars, rows of tierçons (ancient oak barrels) hold eaux-de-vie (twice-distilled white wine that acquires its amber color from the barrel) for the 40-100 years it takes to attain the opulent qualities of its premium cognac, Louis XIII de Rémy Martin, which retails for around $1,400 a bottle. To be labeled a cognac, as opposed to a mere brandy, the eau-de-vie must come mainly from...
...potential $10 billion worth of unmet demand by 2015--a gap that man-made diamonds could soon help fill. In support of the nascent field, last month the Gemological Institute of America, the leading grader of diamonds, agreed to rate synthetic diamonds on the same four Cs--carat, cut, color and clarity--used to evaluate natural diamonds. So even after the last stone is mined, perhaps one day diamonds really will be forever...
...clear glass of hindsight, we see that the elite should have embraced the very first significant comics artist. That was McCay, who, just 100 years and a month before the Los Angeles museum show opened, published his first full-color page of Little Nemo in Slumberland in the New York Herald. Here was a popular art at its onset and apogee: not a primitive Lascaux cave painting but a Sunday-supplement Hieronymus Bosch - a glorious other-world of dreamscapes as phantasmagorical as they were funny...