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LONDON -- What could be more English than Mayfair? Elegant Georgian townhouses and solid Edwardian mansions line the streets of this sophisticated neighborhood, which has been a haven for the rich since the Great Plague and then the fire of 1666 drove the capital's aristocracy out of the City of London and into the area to the west. (Today)
STATE and local governments are cracking down on people for improperly claiming something called the homestead exemption. Take Representative Charles B. Rangel of New York, who was accused of doing just that on a home he owns in Washington, D.C. (Today)
John Begin, a 48-year-old furniture designer in Cambridge, N.Y., once made furniture from slabs of wood. Now he makes it out of branches. (Today)
Marla Dekker and Kevork Babian, graphic designers who live in Brooklyn, have been collecting midcentury modern furniture for decades and storing it in their five-story brownstone. Recently, though, their collection "finally reached critical mass," Ms. Dekker said, and their Web site, Townhouse.bz, was born. (Today)
Le Chat Noir, a new line of decorative accessories at the Metropolitan Museum of Art gift shop, was inspired by the work of a painter and printmaker best known for the image of a slinky black cat he created for a cabaret poster in 19th-century Paris. (Today)
Lifestyle »
- If you think your kitchen is cramped, try cooking on a sailing ship (Yesterday)
- Wine from Georgia? It's a great story (Yesterday)
- Slurping up the culture on a mission to China (Yesterday)
- Strip's Produce Terminal goes Public this week (Yesterday)
- The Fitzurka garden in Robinson is filled with family and food -- lots of food (Yesterday)
- Feasting on 'shrooms (Yesterday)
- Avoid onions for pets (Yesterday)
- Eating with your dog, from a tray, in a tent (Yesterday)
- Fitzurka recipes (Yesterday)
- Mayfair Evolves and Real Estate Prices Blossom (Today)
- Home Is Where the Tax Exemption Is (Today)
- Tables Made With Birch Branches (Today)
- A Web Site for Midcentury Modern Buyers (Today)
- A New Tableware Line at Metropolitan Museum Gift Shop (Today)
- In Switzerland, a Cast-Concrete Mountain Retreat (Yesterday)
- The Audacity of Taupe (Yesterday)
- As Summer Fades, Duties in the Garden Shift (Yesterday)
- Monocle Magazine Opens West Village Shop (Yesterday)
- How Women Reshaped the Modern Kitchen (Yesterday)
- What You Get for ...$275,000 (09/01/2010)
- Maz's room: Retired teacher has turned an unused bedroom into a shrine to a moment -- and a man (08/28/2010)
- Buying Here: Jackson (08/28/2010)
- John and Patty Fitzurka's vegetable garden earns special award (08/28/2010)
- Faux beams can look authentic (08/28/2010)
- Homemaking: Some sweet family secrets (08/28/2010)
- It's difficult to keep caladiums indoors (08/28/2010)
- Garden Notes: Volunteers to begin work on botanic trails (08/28/2010)
- Tomato festival on tap in Scottdale; see roses in Manchester (08/28/2010)
- Real Estate People & Places (08/28/2010)
- Survey shows Pennsylvania has some of the highest closing costs in the nation (08/27/2010)
- Train to Montreal opens up new vistas (08/29/2010)
- In London, Seven Dials has emerged as a chic shopping district (08/29/2010)
- Doukhobors' pacifist heritage lives on in British Columbia (08/29/2010)
- As Life Spins On, the Midway Beckons (08/29/2010)
- Hotel Review: The Shangri-La Hotel in Tokyo (08/29/2010)
- Hot Water Below Brings Pleasures Above in Germany (08/29/2010)
- Signature Blends at Tokyo Bars (08/29/2010)
- Letter: An Elegant Hospital (08/29/2010)
- This John Wayne Airport in California rated scariest (08/29/2010)
- Trip Advisor: If wheelchair helper is attentive, give a tip (08/29/2010)
- Travel Notes: Companies cut travel expenses (08/29/2010)
- Remote-controlled model airplanes roll in for annual event (08/29/2010)
- Peregrine falcons holding on to city life (08/29/2010)
- Assembling model planes is easy -- flying is the hard part (08/29/2010)
- Get Into Nature: The summer lives of fall webworms (08/29/2010)
- Wildlife: New whooping crane population proposed for Louisiana (08/29/2010)
- Where to go ... Bald Eagle State Park (08/29/2010)
- Outdoors by the numbers ... 1 (08/29/2010)
- Get Out Events, Hunting & Fishing Calendar for 8/29/10 (08/29/2010)
- Cycling: Help needed to spur bicycle service on trains (08/28/2010)
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