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In 2005, Henry Ng, executive vice president of the World Monuments Fund (WMF), and Nancy Berliner, curator of Chinese art and culture at the Peabody Essex Museum, stood in the garden of The Qian Long emperor in the Forbidden City in Beijing.

September 17, 2010 by Mike Welton

At the Peabody Essex, Treasures from the Forbidden City

And George Washington Vanderbilt’s library at Biltmore Estate in Asheville was state-of-the-art for 1895.

September 16, 2010 by Mike Welton

A Home for Napoleon’s Chess Set at Biltmore Estate

They have sanctified that revolutionary city built from scratch in the International style.

September 13, 2010 by Mike Welton

At the 1500 Gallery in West Chelsea, the Past as Future

“Because the majority of my work is commissioned, it’s inspired by where it’s being installed, who’s going to be experiencing it, where they’re coming from and how the building is being used,” she says.

September 10, 2010 by Mike Welton

Nancy Gong: Works in Glass for Architectural Spaces

The tapestry hall is memorable for its near-palpable feeling of having been truly lived in and enjoyed, almost a century after George Vanderbilt stopped spending his leisure time here.

September 9, 2010 by Mike Welton

At Biltmore Estate, Books, Prints, Tapestries and Mountains

The planning application for his Handsmooth House, designed for comedic actor Rowan Atkinson and his wife Sunetra, was approved on August 25 by the South Oxfordshire District Council.

September 8, 2010 by Mike Welton

After Three Years of Politics, Meier Debuts in Great Britain

There she found a remodeled and redesigned foundry that still produces smalti, or enameled glass, the same way it did a century ago.

September 3, 2010 by Mike Welton

For Mosaic Artist Julie Richey, a Salon and Studio in Venice

“The Grove in St. Louis was an area in the 1970s and ‘80s that was in a bit of a free fall,” says Tom Niemeier, partner in Space Architects.

September 1, 2010 by Mike Welton

At the Grove in St. Louis, Tax Credits for Sustainability

“I wanted to design homes with better values, with better health and with environmental responsibility,” he says. “I wanted to inspire change, to respond to the economic crisis and provide homebuyers and the general public with options for a more responsible lifestyle.”

August 31, 2010 by Mike Welton

GreenFab: Modular and Sustainable Housing in Seattle

LaFarge would go on to illustrate books by Tennyson and Browning, and paint his first mural for Trinity Church in Boston.

August 20, 2010 by Mike Welton

Stained Glass in Three Dimensions by John Lafarge