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...John Hancock Center, above left, a squared-off, tapering tower, which wouldn't look out of place in Beijing. And architects don't just do buildings: for desktop tulips there's an elegant Frank Lloyd Wright vase in jade or nutmeg ($110). www.architecture.org...
There's no genie in a Chinese snuff bottle, but it's easy to see why these exquisite little phials - the height of fashion in 18th century Beijing - cast a spell on collectors today. Handcrafted from every material known to the Qing dynasty (1644-1911), including copper, glass, porcelain, jade, ivory and amber, each one is a miniature masterpiece of the applied arts. Rich in symbolism - achieved through decorative techniques such as enameling, stippling and relief carving - they served as courtly gifts and good-luck charms. And their social significance wasn't to be sneezed...
...private European collection, and five are missing. But plenty of China's past is being hawked in the meantime. The Sotheby's auction that was to have included the horse head will feature items not necessarily looted but at least traceable to Qing palaces, including a jade seal worth up to $2.5 million and two paintings worth up to $1.9 million each. Those are high prices, but patriotic tycoons are happy to pay them...
...Karl Lagerfeld for a few weeks before voyaging back, as if through time, to a farmhouse in the rugged English county of Shropshire? Amanda Harlech has been called a muse?a term she doesn't much care for, perhaps because it seems so passive, focused mainly on her magnificent jade-colored eyes, storm-black hair and delicate frame that is perfect to carry clothes. She is also possessed of a considerable intelligence, itself at odds with what is now called fashion intelligence, which means tracking trends, being In, going out. So what does Harlech do? She reads, she thinks...
...LeDouxes have certainly gotten their wake-up call. Jade's blood test was fine, but the couple no longer trusts the toy industry--or federal regulators--to police its products. They're starting a small business called Jade's Toybox to sell carefully vetted, educational toys, mainly made in the U.S. and Europe...