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...Louvre des Antiquaires in Paris, where an inlaid l8th century commode starts at $10,000, tourists are bidding on practically everything. "The Americans are in the process of buying out the entire French patrimony," complains a haughty young dealer who is doing his best to help them. "Everything, from the 12th century to the 20th, absolutely everything. And prices? There is no limit." France has a wide variety of luxuries, and despite the new exchange rates, Parisian prices too remain pretty luxurious. As one survivor puts it, "Paris has gone from the ridiculous to the merely exorbitant." For oenophiles...
...board is green and white floor tile, inlaid into the table. Green and white are what they use in championship play, Roach has explained. "You stare at a red and white board for four hours, and you'll go blind. I don't know why they still sell red and white boards in dime stores." His checkers are red and butterscotch, instead of red and black, because "black is nauseating...
...ancestors resembled argon, the author explains, because it is an inactive gas: "They were inert in their inner spirits, inclined to disinterested speculation, witty discourses, elegant, sophisticated and gratuitous discussion." Like argon, the Piedmont Jews behaved eccentrically, never combining with other elements. They spoke the rough Piedmontese dialect inlaid with Hebrew --"sacred and solemn, geologic, polished smooth by the millennia like the bed of a glacier." As deftly translated by Raymond Rosenthal, the oddities of speech are a delight. So is the "inexplicable imprecation" for which Levi's great-grandfather was famous: "May he have an accident shaped like...
...with images of flowers, insects, birds, drawn from Galle's extensive nature studies, or abstractly patterned by pieces of colored glass. Jade, amber, even emeralds and sapphires were reproduced by adding metallic oxides and salts to molten glass. The designer went on to produce other decorative objects, including inlaid furniture, but Galle's reputation rests on glass works that were revolutionary in his time and still retain their ability to astonish and delight...
Gastronom No. 1, an imposing three-story building on Gorky Street, Moscow's busy shopping thoroughfare, is no ordinary supermarket. Its vaulted interior boasts crystal chandeliers, inlaid marble and huge, gold-trimmed mirrors. Regular shoppers know it simply as "Yeliseyev's," after a Russian merchant who built the store in the 18th century. It is popular among foreigners, who consider it as awesome as some of the palace museums that were once the Czars' homes. It is equally appreciated by Muscovites, because it stocks such hard-to-find items as fresh fruit, vegetables and meat...