The Levi Leonard Papers, The University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City, Iowa. For Union Pacific executive Thomas Durant, it was a money-making machine. It was a revolutionary business model previously ...
France might have dispensed with royalty but the firm that kits out its official residences reigns supreme. Few would guess that a cluster of modest 17th‑century buildings in the French capital’s 13th ...
The keeping of French style and culture has never been a casual affair, and its furniture is no exception. Going back as far as 1604, the monarch King Henry IV appointed an official steward of the ...