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Auctions in salesrooms attached to coffeehouses provided the start for the great auction houses of Sotheby's and Christie's. In Victorian England, the temperance movement set up coffeehouses (also known as coffee taverns) for the working classes, as a place of relaxation free of alcohol, an alternative to the public house. [48] [49]
Café des Artistes was a fine restaurant at 1 West 67th Street in Manhattan.New York City. It was owned by George Lang, who closed the restaurant in early August 2009 and announced later that month that the restaurant would remain closed permanently. [1]
Christie's Fine Art Storage Services, or CFASS, is a wholly owned subsidiary that runs Christie's storage operation. In September 2008, Christie's signed a 50-year lease on an early 1900s warehouse of the historic N.Y.D. Company [ 123 ] in Red Hook, Brooklyn , and subsequently spent $30M converting it into a six-storey, 250,000 square feet ...
Black Coffee is a play by the British crime-fiction author Agatha Christie which was produced initially in 1930. The first piece that Christie wrote for the stage, it launched a successful second career for her as a playwright. In the play, a scientist discovers that someone in his household has stolen the formula for an explosive.
In the 1960s, British actress Julie Christie rose to fame as one of the world's most lusted-after bombshells. The leading lady of "Doctor Zhivago" and "Fahrenheit 451," Christie was not only a ...
The original owner of the painting was Ariston Bautista Lin and his family. Before its modern-day exhibition at Christie's auction house in Hong Kong, The Parisian Life was featured on page 147 of Santiago Albano Pilar's book entitled Juan Luna, The Filipino as Painter published in 1980.
Sir James Watts' great grandson, James Watts, was the last private owner of Abney Hall and the only nephew of Agatha Christie. He was elected as Member of Parliament in 1959, but died in office two years later, aged 57. The Terrace Room, 1913. The last private owner of Abney Hall was the great grandson of Sir James Watts (1804–1878).
Christie Hotel is a historic eight-story building at 6724 W. Hollywood Blvd. in Hollywood, California. Considered Hollywood's first skyscraper [ 1 ] and also its first luxury hotel, [ 2 ] the building features Georgian Revival architecture and has been described as "an excellent example of its style" by the United States Department of the ...