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Luxury Living by the Sea

Filed under: Decor

A really great, oversized design book with beautifully-reproduced images can sometimes actually transport you to another place. Such is the case with a new volume titled New Seaside Interiors, edited by Angelika Taschen, which is anything but a mishmash of coastal clichés. Forget what you think you know about nautical décor; with examples of brilliant seaside design on all five continents, from Iceland to Chile, the architecture in this book harmonizes with the ocean in ways that go far beyond sprinkling a few seashells around the guest bath. From fashion designer Pierre Cardin's Bond villain-style floating house in St. Tropez to Dolce & Gabbana's eye-popping seaside villas in Italy, this is the né plus ultra of seaside style. See the gallery for more.

Gallery: New Seaside Interiors

Rudolf Nureyev, Saint Barths, French West Indies

Tags: Angelika Taschen, AngelikaTaschen, Architecture, Coastal, Dolce and Gabbana, DolceAndGabbana, Interior design, InteriorDesign, Ocean, Pierre Cardin, PierreCardin, Seaside, Taschen

World's Best 20th Century Fashion Collection on Auction

by Jared Paul Stern (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Apparel, Auctions

On Oct. 30, Christie's in London will auction off the world's finest collection of 20th Century fashion in private hands. The Resurrection: Avant-Garde Fashion sale features seminal designs from the past 50 years, from "Pop Art and the Space Age of the 1960s through the iconoclasm of the 1970s and the revival of architectural couture of the 1980s and 1990s."

The 250 lots include a carefully curated assemblage of garments, headwear and jewelry from designers including Pierre Cardin, Paco Rabanne, Vivienne Westwood, Azzedine Alaia, Gianni Versace and Issey Miyake, among others. The top-priced lot is this full length wedding dress made from plates of white leather linked by metal rings by Paco Rabanne in 1967, est. about $12,000 - $16,000.

Tags: Christies, Fashion, Paco Rabanne, PacoRabanne, Pierre Cardin, PierreCardin, Pop Art, PopArt, Versace