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There is little room in today's reckoning for the gorgeous playthings that the royals and the royally rich acquired insatiably in the three or four decades before World War I. The most sumptuous, superbly crafted of these frivolities were made by Peter Carl Fabergé, jeweler to the Romanovs, whose establishment in St. Petersburg poured out cascades of baubles and bibelots for nearly 50 years before the Bolsheviks banged on the door...
...Design, runs through July 10; it is a handsomely displayed presentation of 213 objects from the collection of Britain's royal family and other English owners. The second, being held through May 21 by the venerable Fifth Avenue store A la Vieille Russie, is the largest collection of Fabergé ever assembled; many of the 560 pieces are being exhibited for the first time...
...Fabergé, whose Huguenot family fled France in 1685, eventually presided over branches in Moscow, Odessa, Kiev and London. He was principally supported by the Romanovs, notably the Dowager Empress Maria Fyodorovna and her son Tsar Nicholas II. The Danish-born Empress introduced the jeweler to her sister Alexandra and Alexandra's husband King Edward VII of England, both of whom became steadfast patrons of Fabergé. Most of the Fabergéana at A la Vieille Russie were made for the Russian royal family. Among them are nine imperial Easter eggs, the works with which Faberg...
What the two exhibitions show above all is Fabergé's astonishing diversity. The artifacts range from relatively austere stone boxes and clocks, perfume flacons, letter openers and an art nouveau cigarette case given to Edward VII, to what Fabergé called his objets de fantaisie: a windup, tail-wagging silver rhinoceros, a love-sick frog on a silver column, and-in jade, nephrite, agate, chalcedony, quartzite and other gem stones-a dormouse out of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, a litter of four sleeping piglets, and minimenageries of meticulously observed birds, fish and beasts...
Farrah Fawcett as Orson Welles? Well, not quite in bulk, but maybe a wee bit in skills. Asked to perform in a TV commercial for Fabergé hair products bearing her name, Farrah, 34, wrote the ad, okayed the cinematographer, had a hand in picking the props and even chose her costar, ex-New York Jet Joe Namath, 38. "I saw the ad in my mind and it came out exactly as I wanted it," says Farrah. "It has a sense of humor." The 30-sec. spot calls for Farrah to take a shower with Namath, with whom she teamed...