Sex and the garden
byGardens and gardening remain lush, moist, sticky, tangled metaphors for hot, sometimes illicit sex, don’t they?
Napoleon
Hit me: Blackjack, or Twenty-One
byWhether you call it Blackjack (in the United States), Pontoon (in Great Britain) or Vingt-et-Un (on the Continent), Twenty-One is the most widely played casino banking game in the world.
America’s curator
byPhilippe de Montebello wasn’t merely one of the world’s longest-serving museum directors and the face (and voice) of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was the epitome of what an American museum director could be.
Tantalizing turquoise
byWhile we most often associate turquoise with the jewelry of the American Southwest, it actually has a much broader history that spans the globe.
From Sotheby’s auction house to your home
byIt is one of the most famous businesses in the world – a British multinational corporation, headquartered in Manhattan that specializes in everything from wines to watches to Whistlers.
Secret gardens of sex
byEve – and, by extension, the garden – is a metaphor for female sexuality, particularly unbridled female sexuality, and man’s attempt to control it.
Horsing around amid backcountry splendor: OldField Equestrian Farm
byPresented by Sotheby’s International Realty Photographs by Stefen Turner and Steve Rossi OLDFIELD EQUESTRIAN FARM AT A GLANCE = Greenwich = 14,000-plus-square-foot residence = 18.39…
Are We There Yet?
byWhat is it about the road that beckons, that stretches out – teasingly, tantalizingly — before us?