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Articles by Andrew Solomon: Food, Travel & Design


Mar 1991

Moscow Encore

A nobleman’s palace and theater set the stage for czarist entertainments.

Jan 1991

Fashioning a Style

Costume curator Katell le Bourhis is a connoisseur of chic, past and present.

Nov 1990

Showing His Colors

The bold designs of Patrick Frey break the greige barrier of conventional French taste.

Oct 1990

Gotham Romance

In her grand Fifth Avenue apartment, decorator Hethea Nye indulges her taste for luxury.

Sep 1990

Remaking History

The effect of these rooms is human and intimate even when they seem to ooze history from their vast surfaces.

Sep 1990

Decorators’ Private Domains

When the only client they have to accommodate is themselves, decorators give free rein to personal taste.

May 1990

Sensuous Modernism

The house seems to be full of the echoes of personages from every realm.

Apr 1990

Escape to the Campagna

Here is what might happen if history itself were to bathe in the fountain of youth...

Jun 1988

Microchippendale

Your stressed mahogany and Perspex dressing-table may seem less special if it is a 10,000-off instead of a one-off, but it can still be a collector's item.