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Salon Art + Design

Egyptian steles on view at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo in 2007.

When Looted Antiquities Are Sold at Art Fairs, Who’s to Blame?

Looking at the issue of looted antiquities being sold at art fairs—who is to blame, how can buyers avoid it and what's the solution?
By Noah Charney
Benoist Drut, interior designer and partner with Mason Gerard gallery inside of his booth, Salon Art + Design Fair at the Park Avenue Armory, New York, New York, November 11th, 2016. Yvonne Albinowski/For New York Observer

Meet Interior Design’s Most Wanted Fantasist and Curator

Interior designers and architects flock to his “settings”, from Robert Couturier to architect Peter Marino along with celebrity clients who show up in person. The ones he can name include Marc Jacobs, Meg Ryan, Ellen DeGeneres, Lenny Kravitz and Paul Simon.
By Laren Stover

See How the Rich Lived, Then and Now, at This Week’s Salon Art + Design Fair

What makes this art fair different from so many others the city hosts is a global inventory of goods spanning decades (the accent is on French) and a wily and weird mix of fine art, designer furniture, glass and ceramics.
By Paul Laster

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