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46 Magnificent Examples Of Creative Furniture...
Creative furniture designs go beyond being only original...
Hair Salon Owner Found Beauty in $30 Million...
Myron Kunin had an eye for beauty. He built his parents’ d...

Fine Art

Hair Salon Owner Found Beauty in $30 Million...

Myron Kunin had an eye for beauty. He built his parents’ department store hair salons in Minneapolis into a global company that included Supercuts, Vidal Sassoon and Jean-Louis David. Kunin, the founder of Regis Corp. who died last year at 85, also amassed a collection of African art valued at $20 million to $30 million that Sotheby’s will auction Nov. 11 in New York, the biggest estimate ever for an African art sale in the U.S.

08:49 | 11/10/2014more
Chinese Art Sales Tallied $8.5 Billion in 2013 on...

A pair of Chinese porcelain vases fetched $1.2 million; a 7-inch-tall celadon vase sold for $2.3 million and a bronze Buddha statue went for $485,000 -- all blowing past their presale estimates many times over. So went the buying spree during Asia Week in New York this week as Chinese dealers and collectors packed the salesrooms and snapped up pieces of their cultural heritage. Auctions at Sotheby’s, Christie’s, Bonhams and Doyle New York are expected to tally $95 million.

08:46 | 11/10/2014more
Giacometti Chariot Leads $500 Million Trophy Art...

In what is shaping up to be another blockbuster auction season in New York, 10 artworks that are heading to Sotheby’s and Christie’s next month are valued at almost $500 million combined. Among the trophies is Alberto Giacometti’s chariot sculpture, estimated at more than $100 million at Sotheby’s, and a pair of Andy Warhol’s paintings of Elvis Presley and Marlon Brando that are expected to fetch $130 million at Christie’s.

08:41 | 11/10/2014more

Design & Architecture

46 Magnificent Examples Of Creative Furniture...

Creative furniture designs go beyond being only original rather they cross boundaries of industrial, furniture and architectural designs by using new methods and materials along the way. In this round up, we are presenting a collection of some extremely creative furniture designs that stand out from the rest.

14:12 | 11/10/2014more

Sculpture

Oversized $30 Million Koons Monkey Heads to...

Multimillionaire British collector Frank Cohen waited eight years for the Jeff Koons sculpture he had purchased to be completed. It turned out that “Balloon Monkey (Orange)” was too big for his nonprofit art center in London.

08:37 | 11/10/2014more

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