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William H Vanderbilt mansion 1882 57th & 5th
At last, after 10 years of nearly as much off-screen drama as on – years of rumors, flipping networks, starts, stops and plagues -- Julian Fellowes’ The Gilded Age has arrived at HBO.
Central Park + 59th Street 1880s...

Robert Winthrop Chanler 1900 (photo from Rokeby Collection)
A few years ago, I came across a photo of a darkly enchanted, Audubon-with-an-Edward Gorey-twist of a room at Rokeby House in upstate NY. Generations of a single family have called it home since 1688. I love the photo - the image haunts, gently but persistently...

     Gladys Deacon, 1908 by Giovani Boldini
After 5 years of a teasing and tantalizing pregnancy, Julian Fellowes is finally birthing/filming his Gilded Age series this year for HBO. Set in the Newport and New York of the 1870s and 80s, it’s a cakewalk through the America that gave us Cora of...

Cornelius Gijsbrechts 1630-75
I guess it should come as no shock that a person who choreographs objects for a living might be drawn to the art of Assemblage - 3D collages, 2D representations of them AND their spectacular antecedents, Cabinets of Curiosity or wunderkammer (wonder...