“It’s probably the greatest collection of popular art in the world … the breadth, the variety, the expertise,” Glenn ...

Famed artist Maxfield Parrish was a Quaker and teetotaler who was hesitant to decorate a watering hole, but he couldn’t resist the $5,000 commission being offered by John Jacob Astor IV in 1906 ...

John Jacob Astor III also took a more active interest in philanthropy than his father and grandfather. He made a number of donations to institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald The rich are a class apart (and above the crowd). Envied and impervious to what the rest of the world ...

Where History, Innovation and Sustainability Converge on the Grand Canal.

John Jacob Astor III also took a more active interest in philanthropy than his father and grandfather. He made a number of donations to institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He only had ...

Local art appears throughout ... including one of the largest water villas in the Maldives: the John Jacob Astor Estate, a palatial VIP-ready abode. Each option – right down to the entry ...

SBD de Silva’s attempts to differentiate between colonies of settlement & ‘colonies of exploitation’ goes a long way towards theorizing their different practices (see ee Focus). GO’s last official ...

was the granddaughter of New York real estate magnate John Jacob Astor? She told that story about herself many times, and it was all I had to go on. I first filled the silence with my own ...