Deco Days
hen the Japanese designer Katsu Hamanaka arrived in Paris in 1924, he opened a workshop dedicated to of shagreen, ivory, and precious woods. In Tokyo, he had studied with the celebrated lacquer artist Katsutaro Yamazaki, and in France,
Images Of A Woman (1966) By The Fab Four
SEQUESTERED in luxury hotel rooms with not much to do, The Beatles collaborated on a painting that sold recently for more than $1.7 million at Christie’s in New York, nearly tripling its “high estimate” value of $600,000. The work, Images of a Woman,
