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Audrey Hepburn's '70s dining room was a collage of 17th, 18th, and 19th century styles – explore her eclectic, yet pared back, space

Antique and modern furnishings came together in the stylish brown and white dining room in the actress's Swiss home, which ...

Restored 18th-century property dubbed one of NI’s most beautiful homes on the market for over £1m

Described as one of Northern Ireland’s most beautiful homes, 76 Mullaghinch Road is a jewel in Aghadowey. Also known as Bovagh House, the 18th-century B1 listed residence embodies multiple hallmarks ...

How we gave an 18th-century Wiltshire farmhouse a stylish update

When planning to renovate or redecorate your home, it’s important, says interior designer Laura Hanbury, to be realistic ...
Country Life

The Picturesque Scottish castle built on land admired by Robert Burns and erased by war

Dunglass Castle, in Scotland, was once a vision of 18th century Picturesque beauty. Now it lives on only in the Country Life ...
Observer

Could Rococo’s Relatability Make It the Next Big Thing?

From Fragonard and Watteau to the Veil-Picard collection, today’s selective auction fervor for the 18th-century style reveals ...
BBC

18th Century house could become cafe or museum

An 18th Century country house in Essex could be turned into a cafe or museum after months of closure. Castle Point Borough Council wants to transform the vacant Solby House at the John Burrows ...
Time

Books: Reason’s Playboy

THE EMBATTLED PHILOSOPHER (442 pp.) —Lester G. Crocker—Michigan State College ($6.50). French Philosopher Denis Diderot had the intellectual brilliance that sparkled in an 18th century drawing room, ...
Science Daily

After 250 years, an 18th-century mechanical volcano erupts to life

An 18th-century mechanical artwork depicting Mount Vesuvius’ eruption has finally erupted — 250 years later. University of Melbourne students reconstructed Sir William Hamilton’s imaginative fusion of ...
Popular Science

18th century lead ammo found in Scottish Highlands

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Archaeologists in Scotland have excavated over 100 weapon ...
Chicago Sun-Times

Trump invokes 18th century law to speed deportations, judge stalls it hours later

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Rolling Stone

David Bowie Was Secretly Writing a Musical About 18th-Century London Before He Died

David Bowie secretly began working on a musical set in 18th-century London in the months leading up to his death in 2016, according to new notes discovered locked in his New York City office. Bowie ...
Hyperallergic

A Contemporary Art Exhibition in an 18th-Century Home

What’s the opposite of a white cube exhibition? Touch Jamaica, Rejin Leys’s show of paper sculptures set among the period props of a historic home, feels pretty close. The Queens-based ...