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"Fashioned by Sargent", a new exhibit opening Oct. 8 at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, is the first major show to delve into Sargent's fashion, reuniting dozens of the portraits with garments and accessories worn by their subjects. The MFA's Hirshler began focusing on the fashion in Sargent's paintings when she was invited to give a paper at the Petit Palais in Paris in 2016. [Extracted from the article]

In a conversation with WWD Weekend, Scott reflects oncurrent natatorium trends and some of his more unusualrequests through the years, including an elaborate LongIsland grotto built for literal swims with the fishes. Design A heritage pool builder in Connecticuthas been delivering quiet luxury for nearlya century On the grounds of a historic property in LitchfieldCounty, Connecticut, a simple stone and cement poolfilled with crystalline water uneventfully just turned 86years old. Jim Scott: In 1937, the year before I was born, my fathersat down with a bag of cement on his lap, read thedirections, and built his first stone and concrete swimmingpool -- a vanishing-edge, natural pool that still operatestoday, in Woodbury, Connecticut. J.S.: Saltwater pools still generate chlorine. [Extracted from the article]