Sen. Gary Peters of Michigan is pressing the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to explain how it decided to spend more than $31,000 for a custom-made hardwood dining set for Secretary Ben Carson’s office. Peters, the ranking Democrat on the Senate’s Federal Spending Oversight and Emergency Management Subcommittee, wrote to HUD with two colleagues this … Read more
A city that made the Forbes Travel Guide’s 18 Top Destinations Of 2018 now also has a 4-star restaurant to its credit. The Forbes Travel Guide unveiled its annual Star Rating list this week, with Asheville’s Dining Room at The Inn on Biltmore Estate a new Forbes Travel Guide 4-star restaurant. The Inn on Biltmore Estate maintains … Read more
A murano-glass chandelier by Seguso presides over the dining room. Custom bleached walnut table by L’Artigiano Studio; 18th-century Italian chairs; bronze boat sculpture by Edouard Marcel Sandoz. Pin this image Facebook Share this image Alexandra and Michael Misczynski, the wife-and-husband team behind the Los Angeles–based AD100 design firm Atelier AM, are standard-bearers for the increasingly superannuated concepts of quality … Read more
A gallery wall and an eclectic metallic light fixture elevate this formal dining room designed by Achille Salvagni and lend dramatic detail. GIANNI FRANCHELLUCCI Each week Mansion Global tackles an interior design topic with an elite group of designers from around the world who work on luxury properties. This week we look at how to design … Read more
The Project Cafe, Goa Hidden away off one of Assagao’s winding tree-lined roads is an old Goan home given a new lease of life. Freshly painted in white and teal, the 1930s home ‘Amalia’ now hosts The Project Café, which offers food, design, retail and the experience of living in a beautifully restored space, surrounded … Read more
If you manage to brave the crowds to see the Michelangelo masterpieces now on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, you can now end your cultural jaunt with a culinary treat under the same roof. The Dining Room at the museum recently opened to the public for the first time since it started as a … Read more
In the third part of our blog series on creating attractive effects using energy efficient lighting with designer Graham Festenstein, we move on to the kitchen and dining area. It’s a focal point of many homes, and one where task lighting understandably can take precedence over general room ambience. Focus on surfaces In previous blogs, he’s explained that … Read more
If you manage to brave the crowds to see the Michelangelo masterpieces now on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, you can now end your cultural jaunt with a culinary treat under the same roof. The Dining Room at the museum recently opened to the public for the first time since it started as a … Read more
A London restaurant with “a sense of grandeur and political intrigue unlike any other” is set to open up for three days next month – inside the Houses of Parliament. Diners will be able to sample the “top-end British cuisine” usually only available to high profile politicians in February, if they can snap up a … Read more
nce you’ve made a reservation at Paris’s first nudist restaurant, you find –yourself neurotically broadcasting this bit of news to anyone who will listen. While vacationing in France’s capital recently, a visitor from New York City approached the front desk of his hotel and told the thoughtful-looking employee seated there, “Tonight, we will be eating … Read more