Alison Levasseur

Top architects have created spectacular winery designs from Napa Valley to Italy. Raise a glass to the world’s best vineyards and start planning your next trip

This exhibition marks the first time Muhammad Shah’s royal tent is on public view

Author Christopher Mason, who was in the Sotheby’s New York salesroom yesterday, captured the moment when the hammer went down on Modigliani’s Portrait de Paulette Jourdain. The painting led the $377 million “Masterworks” sale, which kicked off the auction house’s fall season as well a series of four auctions offering the 500-lot collection of A. Alfred Taubman, a shopping mall magnate and former Sotheby’s chairman, who died earlier this year. The red carpet was unfurled outside of the auction h…

Sotheby’s sold the eccentric work of art commissioned by a San Francisco millionairess for nearly three times its estimated value

European garden lovers are salivating over a one-time online auction of exceptional plants and trees from top nurseries

Click through a few of the renowned British architect’s London buildings

For the first time Sotheby’s partners with an interior designer to showcase the lots in its biannual decorative arts sale in New York City

The eighth edition of the Art Nouveau Art Deco Biennale includes tours of 80 private properties

More than 30 landscape paintings owned by the Microsoft cofounder—including works by Cézanne, Monet, and Turner—will be part of a traveling exhibition

To celebrate the architect’s birthday, we assembled a slideshow of some of his most remarkable works

A rare gray pearl necklace is on the auction block at Sotheby’s Hong Kong

Ceramist extraordinaire Hitomi Hosono debuts a Colefax & Fowler–inspired collection, on view through October 27

Sports-car lovers, mark your calendars! Sotheby’s will sell 30 extraordinary examples of automotive design this August

Dior opens its newest boutique in Seoul, designed by Christian de Portzamparc and Peter Marino

The Warshawsky collection auction at Sotheby’s featured more than 90 Tiffany Studios works

Christie’s is selling a Louis XVI gilt-wood chair once owned by Marie Antoinette

Proceeds from a limited-edition Hermès scarf will benefit the restoration of Versailles

A work by Pablo Picasso moves from one film industry titan to another

On May 11, Bonhams New York will offer an an important collection of Madoura ceramics by Pablo Picasso in its “Post-War & Contemporary Prints & Multiples” sale. Inspired by the palette of the Mediterranean landscape, Picasso began making ceramics in the South of France in the late 1940s. It was during this period that he met Suzanne and Georges Ramie, owners of the Madoura ceramics studio in Vallauris. For the next 25 years, the artist returned annually to work at the studio. Many of the 23 Pica…

Marc Newson’s Lockheed Lounge brought in a record-breaking $3.7 million at a recent Phillips auction