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Plastic Palace: Trulia Lists Barbie’s Dreamhouse for $25 Million
The real estate website partnered with Mattel to drum up publicity for Barbie’s search for a new home
Givenchy’s Riccardo Tisci Buys Marina Abramovic’s Soho Townhouse
Tisci had laid down a cool $3.06 million for the Soho townhouse of his close friend
The Big Apple Sketched: James Gulliver Hancock’s ‘All the Buildings in New York’
As the final piece of the spire was placed on One World Trade Center in New York City on May 10, TIME looks at the Big Apple’s other iconic landmarks through one artist’s whimsical sketches
Literary Inspiration: 7 Unique Book Collections
Juniper Books founder Thatcher Wine shares his favorite custom-curated book sets and cover designs
Live Like Lord Grantham: Downton Furniture Coming
The hit show will bring its Edwardian flair to more merchandize than ever
5 Questions with Art Collector and Interior Designer Maria Brito
Her new book, Out There (Pointed Leaf Press), details her journey from Venezuela through more than 250 illustrations
Equality Sans: A Typeface for Marriage Equality
Two designers have incorporated the pink-and-red equals sign into a new font
Can a Sound Installation Take You to Outer Space?
At Manhattan’s Park Avenue Armory, the last showing of “Oktophonie,” a 70-minute, pulsating electronic opera by the late German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, began in a hushed silence
The Royal Bed: Is a Good Night’s Sleep Worth $175,000?
“No one can deny that it’s a lot of money,” says Savoir’s managing director Alistair Hughes. “But for the kind of people who spend $10,000 a night staying in presidential suites or driving a fabulous car, it’s something that …
Start-Up Wants Men to ‘Give a Shave’ About Razors
The newly-launched Harry’s is using a direct-to-consumer sales model to offer boutique-quality products at mass-market prices
Brave New World: Exploring the Future of Museums
In the post-millennial age, does the traditional role of a museum still hold? New York City’s Museum of Arts and Design dives into what a museum could become in its new exhibition
Mine Kafon: An Afghan Designer’s Life-Saving Design
Massoud Hassani has devised an innovative approach to one of the biggest challenges facing his native country: land mines