Ralph Lauren's Chic Office, Home and Amazing Colorado Ranch

Polo man...

 

 

Pool house, Ralph Lauren home in Bedford, NY, architecturaldigest.com

 

 

 

 

 

Ralph Lauren's Chic Office, Home and Amazing Colorado Ranch

 

 

Ralph Lauren's chic Madison Avenue office, home in Bedford, NY, and amazing Colorado ranch are the subject of a feature story on architecturaldigest.com.

 

To see how the fashion designer has developed each of these places with his distinctive style, click on the link for a slide show:  http://www.architecturaldigest.com/celebrity-homes/2013/ralph-lauren-bedford-new-york-home-rrl-ranch-colorado-slideshow

 

Cool Magician: Doug McKenzie

How does he do that?

 

Doug McKenzie, dougmckenzie.com

 

 

 

 

Cool Magician:  Doug McKenzie

 

 

Doug McKenzie is a magician who uses smartphones and more with amazing results.

 

Watch as this engaging wizard baffles and delights people in this enjoyable new video:  https://vimeo.com/102556992

 

 

New Video Offers Rare Look at North Korean Capital

Fascinating...

 

Pyongyang, rawstory.com

 

 

 

 

 

New Video Offers Rare Look at North Korean Capital

 

 

Enter Pyongyang, a new time-lapse video produced by a pair of film-makers for a North Korean tour company, offers a rare glimpse inside the enigmatic country's capital, Dylan Stableford reports on Yahoo.com.

 

The film-makers said they were given "relatively" free rein on the project, but were accompanied at all times by two "guides" from the National Tourism Administration office, Stableford wrote.

 

One of the film-makers said the team was not paid for the six-day shoot, though their expenses were picked up by the tour company, according to Stableford.

 

For more, including the fascinating new video:  http://news.yahoo.com/enter-pyongyang-north-korea-timelapse-video-132954078.html

 

Enchanting Northern Italian Estate

Charm and nostalgia...

 

Bishop's Room, Agnelli estate, architecturaldigest.com

 

 

 

 

 

Enchanting Northern Italian Estate

 

 

Marella Agnelli takes her niece Marella Chia on a tour of the famous family's enchanting estate, Villar Perosa, outside Torino in northern Italy on architecturaldigest.com.

 

Reminiscing about her first visit to Villar, Marella Agnelli said, "There was this sense of being in an enchanting time warp.

 

"Villar was an old family home full of charm and nostalgia," she said.

 

The tour was a break for the two Masrellas from work on their new book, Marella Agnelli, The Last Swan about her life as a style icon, photographer, textile designer and inspired amateur decorator and gardener to be published by Rizzoli in October, Chia wrote.

 

For more, including a slide show of the wonderful estate:  http://www.architecturaldigest.com/decor/2014-09/marella-agnelli-villar-perosa-turin-italy-article

 

Musical Moments: Adagio in G Minor

Famous adagio...

 

Autumn Leaves, youtube.com

 

 

 

 

Musical Moments:  Adagio in G Minor

 

 

Musical Moments features music and artists I've enjoyed over the years.

 

This week's selection is the famous Adagio in G Minor. 

 

 Adagio in G minor for violin, strings and organ continuo, is a neo-Baroque composition popularly attributed to the 18th-century Venetian master Tomaso Albinoni, but actually composed by the 20th-century musicologist and Albinoni biographer Remo Giazotto, purportedly based on the discovery of a manuscript fragment of Albinoni, according to Wikipedia.

 

It has been the background music for a number of  films, including Rollerball, Gallipoli and Flashdance, Wikipedia reports.

 

I hope you'll enjoy it:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1krdb1b4UI

 

Closings Lead Darien Weekly Real Estate Results

Closings jump...

 

East River, c. 1898, Donald Demers, jrusselljinishiangallery.com

 

 

 

 

Closings Lead Darien Weekly Real Estate Results

 

 

Twenty-one closings led Darien's residential real estate results for the week ending today.

 

Results in other major categories, according to the Darien MLS, were:

 

-- Nine new listings of property for sale;

-- Three price changes;

-- Five accepted offers, and

-- No properties going under contract.

 

For details: 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New National Lighthouse Museum Opens Today

Tour 14 great lighthouses...

 

Jeffrey's Hook Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge, architecturaldigest.com

 

 

 

 

 

New National Lighthouse Museum Opens Today

 

 

 

The new National Lighthouse Museum opens today on New York's Staten Island, according to Carrie Hojnicki on architecturaldigest.com.

 

The museum is a sweeping ode to the design, history and importance of the lighthouse, Hojnicki wrote.

 

For more, including a slide show of some wonderful American lighthouses:  http://www.architecturaldigest.com/architecture/2012-06/american-lighthouses-slideshow?title=1