New York's Osborne Apartment House of 1885

New York's Osborne Apartment House of 1885The Osborne, at 205 West 57th Street, was one of New Yorks first luxury apartment houses; along with peers like the Dakota, it helped to popularize the idea of apartment living among New Yorks affluent classes. A monument to the Gilded Age, the Osborne features a rusticated brownstone facade with both Romanesque and Renaissance motifs, and a foyer and lobby elaborately adorned with marble, mosaics, murals, gilding, and stained glass. Although many of

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Patek Philippe

Faithful Friends reproduces fifty of Rockwell’s finest paintings with canine characters

antiquaries

Located in the heart of King’s County

the hook-handed old salt of Dickens's Dombey and Son

all 277 of the hand-colored plates from François-André Michaux’s classic North American Sylva

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Resnick’s photographs of these iconic figures—many never seen since their original publication in magazines like Rolling Stone

John Singer Sargent

perhaps unequaled public visibility: the shock of dyed blond hair