Minding the (Jewelry) Store

Since Temple St. Clair founded her jewelry brand in 1986, there was one notable business milestone that she had not achieved: opening her own boutique. That is changing this week, with the opening of an 800-square-foot store on Washington Street in New York City’s meatpacking district. It stands at street level along a tranquil —…

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A Designer Who Starts With Destruction

T Introduces: Linde Freya Tangelder’s Luminous New Collection for Cassina In Linde Freya Tangelder’s opinion, great design starts with demolition. “To pull something down or destroy a little bit of the past gives you freedom,” says the 35-year-old Dutch-born designer. Breaking apart her own work and starting over, deconstructing her models and rebuilding them, is,…

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The Hyperreal Wonders of Glacé Fruit

INSIDE A GILDED Rococo room on the Avenue Montaigne in Paris, candied fruits dangled from winterberry tree branches. Hand-sewn to the limbs with waxed twine by the food artist Imogen Kwok and her team, the sugar-confit-dipped pears, clementines and cherries resembled orbs of glass and were clipped off by guests with bonsai scissors for an…

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