Haute couturière Elsa Schiaparelli in a window of her showroom at 21 Place Vendôme in Paris. Image by François Kollar from "Good Hous...

Edmond de Goncourt portrayed in an 1882 etching by French artist Félix Braquemond. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Mrs. Lessing...

"I prefer a good 'interior' to a good landscape. The impression has a greater intensity—the thing itself a more complex animati...

Though An Aesthete's Lament has gone silent—am uncertain if this is a complete cessation or merely what a friend calls "a productiv...

Dear Readers, For the last couple of years I have enjoyed writing for you—digging through old magazines and crumbling books, touring the var...