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Tonight at the Guggenheim, Interior Design handed out 'Best of the Year' awards: Harry Allen-designed statuettes topped by cast lightbulbs. |
Fun Fact: The world's first escalator was actually a new ride unveiled at Coney Island in Brooklyn in 1891. |
Thakoon Panichgul: first designer to have dresses simultaneously on the First Lady and at Target? His collection for Target bows in January. |
"The second I go into a restaurant or any place, I notice the space's mistakes or if the lights or tablecloths shoud be changed." -G. Armani |
Chutes & Ladders originated in India, where it had metaphysical implications. Nothing says 'board game' like a climb toward spiritual bliss. |
Good news: H&M is introducing cheap n' chic homegoods (bedding, towels, etc.) next year. / Bad news: It will only be available in Europe. |
Your dinner table fun fact: Renzo Piano's new California Academy of Sciences building is insulated with denim (216,000 pairs of jeans worth) |
Lights! Camera! Takashi! Murakami to open an animation/film studio in Hollywood: http://tinyurl.com/6zqxho |
"Terry Richardson shot all the kids who get eaten or bloodsucked in the new horror films." -Fabien Baron on November issue of Interview mag. |
Target, H&M will see your Alexander McQueen collaboration and raise you a Matthew Williamson-designed collection, slated for summer '09. |
Philippe Starck downsizes his Louis Ghost chair; the Lou Lou Ghost is fit for a prince (or a Napoloen-sized king). http://tinyurl.com/6q8wtm |
"It's impossible to totally escape your own good taste." -artist John Baldessari, last night at the Whitney |
Welcome to Twitter, @karl_lagerfeld! |
Restrained ourselves from hugging Simon Doonan & Jonathan Adler at tonight's Moth Ball in NY. Adler designed the award won by Salman Rushdie |
Downtown chic designer Alexander Wang has won the fifth annual CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund award; $200k buys a lot of shredded cutoffs. |
"I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste." -Marcel Duchamp |
New from Rizzoli: A Bathing Ape, the book. (Frankly, Nigo scares us, as does most limited-edition hip-hop apparel) http://tinyurl.com/6js6ny |
Tonight at Christie's, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich's Basquiat painting sold for $11.9 million (+ commission), a wee bit under low estimate |
Rough night at Sotheby's contemporary sale, where nearly a third of 63 lots failed to sell, including 1963 Lichtenstein on catalogue cover. |
Speedy delivery: DHL is closing its U.S. operations. Are those McDonald's-evoking red and yellow uniforms partially to blame? |
