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Crafted out of materials like black gold, pernambuco wood and cacholong stone, iconic architect Frank Gehry's first-ever jewelry collection for Tiffany draws on his childhood memories as well as structural elements from his renowned buildings. The Torque cuffs, below, are modeled on his signature curved and twisted lines. Gehry says that for him jewelry was not a big leap of imagination: "The impulse is always the same?to discover new forms that have a natural flow and a relevance to contemporary life...
What's Old Is New Scrapile table by Carlos Salgado and Bart Bettencourt, crafted with discarded wood scraps, $2,500 (vivavi.com) Cortiça chaise lounge by Daniel Michalik, handmade of reclaimed cork, $4,988 (branchhome.com) Lladró Re-Cyclos Sphere by CuldeSac, made with old porcelain ornaments, $1,900 (212-838-9771 or 310-385-0690). Opposite page: Longitude wool-and-viscose sustainable fabric, by Pollack (pollackassociates.com) Heath recyclable vegetable bowl in persimmon, $70 (heathceramics.com) Aero recycled or reclaimed teak-root bowls, small for $150 and large...
When students tell Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism James Wood that they first encountered King Lear at 2:30 in the morning, he knows that something is very wrong. “The text doesn’t speak to them,†he laments. And I, for one, agree. Harvard students, especially humanities concentrators, face monstrous reading loads. Expected to plow through 350 pages each week, students in the most demanding courses are faced with two alternatives—and neither, let me warn you, is pretty. The first option is superficial reading, a half-hearted...
...Middle East and have a direct investment in democracy, however, see the value of the U.S.'s hard-fought quest to stabilize Iraq, defeat Islamic terrorism and bring liberty to oppressed peoples. Our Founding Fathers would be proud of the latter and disgusted by the former. Kelly Wood Bozeman, Montana...
...Jarre LPs and screenings of Chariots of Fire. Teenagers canoodle to Three Times a Lady and weep over Kramer vs. Kramer. Yet those familiar details are lit up with a sense of magic that makes Middle England seem more wondrous than Middle-earth. "Birdsong's the thoughts of a wood. Beautiful, it was, but boys aren't allowed to say 'beautiful' 'cause it's the gayest word going...