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  "Glorious Days at Chieftans : The Gimbel Estate" Designer Showhouse Inc. Premier The Gimbel Estate Greenwich, Connecticut Fig. 1  “(Bernard F. Gimbel’s) ‘ Chieftans’ Estate in Greenwich, Connecticut, 1932-1934” by Robert Yarnall Richie.           Once upon a time the Rich, the Famous, and the Beautiful amused themselves at Chieftans , the former Greenwich estate of the late Bernard and Alva Gimbel.  For one magical evening, Chieftans came alive again at the gala event organized for the Designer Showhouse Premiere where Mrs. J. Stillman Rockefeller served as Honorary Benefit Chairman, and members of the Gimbel family served on the Honorary Committee.  Designer Mario Buatta was Showhouse Chairman, and Paula Rice Jackson, Editor-in-Chief of Interiors magazine, served as Chairman of the Selections Committee. Twenty-two national designers created a sense of splendour that might have been found at Chieftans during its social heyday in Green...

  “Naughty Boy, Piranesi: Drawings and Etchings” Arthur M. Sackler Collection Avery Architectural Library Columbia University in the City of New York “The Colosseum” by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1757. Photograph by R.S. Johnson Fine Art.             Naughty boy Giovanni Battista Piranesi, the 18th century Venetian architect and Rake-about-Rome, confined most of his architectural escapades to copper plates rather than to completed works of architecture.  His prints of fantastical Roman architecture, as seen in this current exhibit at the Palace Theatre Art Gallery of important Piranesi drawings and etchings from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection at the Avery Architectural Library of Columbia University, visually introduced innumerable generations of artists and architects to the majesty of antiquity.   Excavations in 1738 of the ruins at Herculaneum, and later in 1748 of the ruins at Pompeii, sparked the revived interest in class...