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The article discusses the renovation of the lobby and retail spaces of the commercial skyscraper at 712 Fifth Avenue in New York City. The renovation aimed to update the Postmodern aesthetic of the building and incorporate elements of the historic glazing from the adjacent rowhouses. The lobby now features curved glass panels inspired by the Art Nouveau glazing of the Coty Building, designed by René Lalique. The glass panels create a welcoming and luminous entrance, while also paying homage to the building's history. [Extracted from the article]

EAST DENNIS, MA ELDRED'S MARCH 23 Women in the Arts Eldred's Women in the Arts sale will feature notable American women artists, from 19th-century examples to important contemporary works. NEW YORK, NY SWANN AUCTION GALLERIES APRIL 6 African American Art Swann Auction Galleries' spring African American Art sale will feature a broad range of scarce and significant Post-War and contemporary art. THOMASTON, ME THOMASTON PLACE AUCTION GALLERIES FEBRUARY 24-26 Winter Enchantment Sale A remarkable selection of rarities and fresh-tomarket offerings will be on the auction block during Thomaston Place Auction Galleries' three-day Winter Enchantment Sale, including paintings and sculpture, estate jewelry, antique and modern furniture, folk art and more. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the business success of the decorative arts (DA) and lighting company Rambusch Decorating Co. located in Greenwich Village, New York. The company's focus is on the delicate balance between DA and lighting. Among the company's work for commercial buildings are the lobby of the Waldorf Astoria and the observatory of the Empire State Building. The management strategy of its founder and president, Harold W. Rambusch is also described.

The article discusses the flourishing of the decorative arts that took place in New York City between 1800 and 1847, with particular focus paid to the work of the furniture maker Duncan Phyfe. Several decorative objects from the period are pictured and described including a side chair attributed to Phyfe made around 1810, a silver cake basket by William Braisted Heyer made circa 1820, and a silver hot water urn by Stephen Richard from around 1801-1812.

The article reviews three exhibitions of modern and contemporary jewelry: "Wiener Werkstätte Jewelry" at the Neue Galerie in New York City; "Calder Jewelry" by Alexander Calder, also in New York, at the Metropolitan Museum or Art; and "Ornament as Art: Avant-Garde Jewelry from the Helen Williams Drutt Collection" at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in Texas.

The article features the rowhouses in New York City. It provides a detailed information about the house's interior decoration, particularly the woodwork touched with classical design. The rowhouses had front and back bedrooms on the second floor with small, well-appointed his-and-hers closets between them.

The article talks about the visit of interior designer Elissa Cullman to the upscale American Antiques Show and the Stella Americana Pier Show, the trade shows which are part of the annual Americana Week in New York. Cullman, who was a curator at the American Folk Art Museum for five years before becoming a designer and has collected folk art for decades, is a folk art expert. According to Cullman, there is a need to go to shows of all levels to realize the entire design project.

This article describes how a former community center dance hall in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York has been transformed into a private loft space apartment. Photographs illustrate the 1970's-disco theme in furnishing. Dance and party space remain while recycled industrial objects and original lighting and artwork are used for decor.

The article highlights the work of several women mosaicists at Tiffany Studios in New York City. One of the earliest known mosaics executed by Tiffany's women was a frieze displayed outside the firm of Louis C. Tiffany at the World's Columbian Exposition. Among the many major mosaic projects executed in the late 1890s by the women's glass cutting department was the mural Heroes and Heroines of the Homeric Story, commissioned for Alexander Hall.

The article reports on the opening of new classical galleries in Metropolitan Museum of Art's American Wing in New York City. The opening of the new galleries marks the completion of the first phase of a project to reconfigure, renovate, or upgrade nearly every section of the American Wing. A major goal of the plan is to improve public access to, and visitor flow within, the American Wing galleries.

The article features a collection of traditional folk and visionary vernacular art by dealer Frank Maresca in Chelsea, Manhattan, New York City. Found in his living room are hanged collections of late-19th-to early-20th-century American carnival heads. Included in his collections are a carved wood sculpture of Eve with the serpent and a bowler-hatted man sitting with his legs crossed.

The article focuses on the collection of 19th-century American and European decorative arts by Anne Payne, a decorator, teacher and writer, in her house in Southampton, New York. The collection is displayed in a storytelling pattern, including three transfer-printed tiles which represent a class of narrative tile panels created during the period. The emphasis of Payne's furniture collection is on manufacturers rather than designers.

The article features several art museums in New York City. The American Folk Art Museum displayed the works of self-taught artists. The Bronx Museum of Arts features contemporary short form videos of the performances of various artists. The Brooklyn Museum showcased its collections of Roman period mosaics. The Dahesh Museum of Art boasts its collection of arts from known illustrators. China Institute features antique porcelain coming from Japan.

The article presents several art exhibitions in New York City, New York as of February 2006 including “Obsessive Drawing,” at the American Folk Art Museum, “Tsunami: A Child's Eye View,” at the Asia Society and Museum, “Wearing Propaganda: Textiles on the home Front in Japan, Britain, and the United States 1931-1945,” at Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, and “Irreducible: Contemporary Short Form Videos,” at the Bronx Museum of the Arts.

The article features the antique collections of a medieval scholar and curator in New York City. For the past decade, the collector has been looking for English and American Gothic revival and early modernist objects. His increasing interest in the 19th century coincided with his transfer to an apartment in 1995. This gave him the chance to collect objects and use them as furnishings of his home.

Describes an apartment in Manhattan, New York City renovated by designer T. Keller Donovan. Inclusion of antique furniture; Arrangement of plates, pictures and brackets in the guest room.

Describes the interior decoration of a penthouse at the SoHo Grand Hotel in New York City designed by William Sofield. Challenges faced by the designer; Furniture used; Decorative arts displayed at the penthouse.

Presents information on renovations made to the Fifth Avenue store of Bergdorf Goodman in New York City by Randall A. Ridless. Color of the ground level's ceiling and walls; Description of the flooring of the store; Decorative arts at the store.

Focuses on actress Katharine Hepburn's house furnishings and artworks to be auctioned at Sotheby's in New York City on June 10 and 11, 2004. Victorian mahogany armchair; Metal-banded barrel bookcase; White slipcovered furniture; Tables and stools from Africa.

To see contemporary expressions of American Indian beadwork, attend one of the hundreds of powwows around the country held on most weekends, especially during summer. But to see the most diverse examples of historical American Indian beadwork, visit the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian in downtown Manhattan. Its exhibition, First American Art: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of American Indian Art, on display through October 31, 2005, features more than 200 pieces from the Dikers' private collection of some 350 items, including clothing from the Great Plains and Eastern woodlands, baskets and pottery from the Southwest and California, and Plains ledger drawings.

Discusses the custom metal-fabricating business, Gratz Industries, in Long Island City, Queens, New York. Owner, Donald Gatz, and the artists who have worked with him; Series of elaborately engineered steel picture frames created by painter Robert Gwathmey and photographer Rosalie Gwathmey; Company's list of metal work accomplishments; Part it played in production during World War II; Legendary Barcelona furniture by Mies van der Rohe.

Provides an overview of the 19th century decorative art collections at the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, New York. Bryant Vase designed by James Horton Whitehouse; Peonies Blown in the Wind, a window made by John La Farge.

Suggests ways to expand small kitchen space without structural changes in New York, New York. Utilization of reflection and light to open up space by designers Allen and Michael Pierce; Impact of color and under-counter appliances by designer Brian del Toro; Functionality and calm aesthetic of kitchen design by designer Stewart Manger.

Features decorative arts with human form-inspired designs sold in New York City boutiques. Includes decanters; Crystal goblets; Lalique vase; Product sources; Prices.

The article features the life and works of Jean-Pierre Larocque in New York City. He was born in Montreal, where he studied abstract painting and printmaking. His techniques draws from his roots in abstraction wherein his construction process is intuitive, working with two or three different batches of stoneware, thus creating different colors when fired. Most of his masterpieces do not look complete but rather appear to be works in progress, left in an unfinished state. It is purposefully left raw and coarse, a craggy record of their own manufacture. His works are shaped, scraped and fragmented, sliced apart and spliced together, lacerated and smoothed over and extended again. Presented are the details of his works.

The article offers architectural description of Jacob K. Javits Center in New York City. The structure reflects the status of the people living in the area and the establishments found in the place. The architect reportedly illustrated parallels between the design of the convention center and that of airports which both work as massive blocks of circulation space. The circulation spaces supported the creation of the crystal palace and led to its crystalline extension called concourses.

The article focuses on the vision of Helen Elizabeth Munson Williams. She was the brainchild of the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art in Utica, New York. She was one of the most important philanthropists of central New York, and a nineteenth century collector of fine and decorative arts who instills the importance of art and art education to her heirs and in the community. Her painting collection and primary documentation show that she preferred American paintings than European paintings due to her exposure to American art and cultivation of taste through her relationship with artists such as Henry Darby, John J. Audubon, and others.

The article reports on the ceramic arts in the New York City subway system. It states that the New York subway stations has contained some of the most creative and vivid historic ceramic tile assemblages in the U.S. The art works are composed of plaques, tablets, mosaics, and other decorative elements that were produced and custom-designed by some of the best-known architects and art-pottery makers of the time. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is undertaking increased initiative to restore and enhance the undervalued part of New York's heritage. Among the subway stations with art works are 86th street station, Columbus Circle Station, and Astor Place Station.

The article focuses on house furnishings and gift items being sold by some New York City shops. Pratesi offers no-iron bed linens and sheets in both pure-cotton percale and a cotton-polyester combination. Royal Copenhagen Shop provides a central outlet for the Danish porcelain and faience. Tiffany sells notable ginger jars, earthenwares and plates. Berman-Kronen Gallery specializes in American folk art.

The article relates the author's experience in attending the needlework class at the Cooper Union Museum in New York City conducted by Erica Wilson. Wilson is an Englishwoman two devoted most of her life to studying and teaching at the Royal School of Needlework in London, England. The course fee for night lessons is $21.

Focuses on Steven Michaan, who started collecting fish decoys a little over a decade ago, and assembled 300 hand-carved bass, trout and perch. Information on the value of the collection; Account of a private investor in suburban New York, who paid Michaan a paltry $20 for his first decoy in 1985; Display of 225 of Michaan's decoys at the Museum of American Folk Art in Manhattan, New York.

Focuses on interiors of the American wing of the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Description of restoration of the atmosphere of the seventeenth and eighteenth century American interior; Use of beading or of turned wood split in two for external decoration, which one finds on some seventeenth century furniture; Information on the massive beams of the old church at Hingham, which forms the central hall of the top story of the museum; Comments on the architecture of the museum.

The article presents information on interior architecture and decorative arts of a house and a traveling exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Museum. The home of Ogden and Ruth Livingston Mills at Dutchess County, New York, was designed by Stanford White in white stucco. The exhibition "Art in Clay: Masterworks of North Carolina Earthenware," focuses on North Carolina's pottery tradition.

Features the unique furniture designs of artisans such as George Nakashima, Wharton Esherick, Michael Coffey, Arthur Espenet Carpenter, and David Ebner that are being sold through auctions in New York. Description of the furniture; Bid prices.

The article presents information on various exhibitions. "Masterpieces from European Artist Colonies, 1830-1930 from Public and Private European Art Collections," will be held from now-May 22. "Viktor Koen: Digital Constructions," featuring digital photographs, will be held in the The Fraser Gallery, from April 15-May 18. "Jim Dine: Pinocchio As I Knew Him," featuring Sculptures and multi-panel oil paintings, will be held at the Richard Gray Gallery, from April 5-May 20.

Features decorative art pieces from the French Renaissance period in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Ornament by Antonio Fantuzzi; High chest circa 1560 to 1580; Designs for rings by Rene Boyvin; Ring with cameo of Alexander the Great.

Discusses the limited influence of William IV, England's king from 1830 to 1837, on the arts. Attachemnt of his name to the distinctive style of William IV furniture; Style characterized by simple, sculptural forms, usually in mahogany or rosewood, embellished by classical motifs; Description of a circa-1835 mahogany sculpture stand supported by Ionic columns is also representative; it sold for $47,800 in the same year.

Features Scarsella, the decorative accessories store in Long Island, New York. Features of the Christmas Carol Menu; List of other products; Sales of the store.

Presents several product showrooms in New York. Display of Heritage Irish Crystal and Stephen Pearce Pottery; Design of the tableware of Over & Back; Launch of the showroom of Golden Mor.

Focuses on the decorative arts showcased in smaller museums in New York City. Neue Galerie; Dahesh Museum of Art; Skyscraper Museum; Hispanic Society of America; Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum; Bard Graduate Center Gallery; Lower East Side Tenement Museum.