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Saint-Louis: A Crystal Legacy Honored by UNESCO

Saint-Louis' UNESCO recognition highlights a rich legacy of glassmaking craftsmanship and introduces new, innovative collections.

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Inside the Vaults

Located beneath Chancery Lane in the West End, the Vaults are no underground storage or museum. Rather, they are a shopping destination like no other, housing 30 specialist shops of antique and modern silver, some of which date back to the early 1600s.

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A Slice of Paradise

Located on its own private island Koh Fahn, off of Choeng Mon Beach, Cape Fahn offers guests absolute privacy, while still being a stone’s throw away from the life and party of Koh Samui.

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A Discreet Decadence

Perhaps because it is located in the street almost next to Champs-Élysées that the crowd swarms the touristy shopping avenue, but Musée Jacquemart-André bestows a contrasting picture despite being in the same arrondissement.

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Inside the Bunker

Little known beyond specialists, Berlin is the city with one of the most important collections of Asian antiquities in the world.

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Kettle's Yard / Cambridge and Musée Zadkine / Paris

Two of my most favored galleries are pictured here – Kettle’s Yard and the Musée Zadkine – both are inextricably linked to their founders or the artist whose works fill the spaces, giving them an added bonus of a more personal, holistic experience – viewing the art in their ‘home’ as it was.

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Fifty by Fifty

He was a postal clerk. She was a librarian. With their modest means, the couple managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history.

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The Wallace Collection: Five Generations of Collecting

Visiting the Wallace Collection, a national museum in London, is akin to being welcomed into a modern day billionaire’s mansion.

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Coastal Culture

Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild sits atop the forested peninsula town called Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, located between the astonishing yet less frequented beaches of Villefranche-sur-Mer and Beaulieu-sur-Mer.

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Expanding the Frick Collection

Manhattan is home to many of the world’s top-notch museums and institutions that receive acclaim from all corners of the globe, yet a mansion on the Upper East Side that looks modest up against its neighbor, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, is a serious contender for the title of finest art museum in North America.

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