ALJASSAR: A contemporary Gilded Age

It's been confirmed the so-called 'next Downton Abbey' will air in the US early next year. 'The Gilded Age' - also created by Julian Fellowes - follows millionaires living in New York in the 1880s. Downton Abbey returns for its sixth series ...

It's hard to hide if youre a hedge-fund billionaire in this gilded age. You get ranked by your returns, stalked by paparazzi and, if you end up in a nasty divorce, worked over by the New York Post. But search for a photograph of some of the ...

Newport generally conjures images of the Vanderbilts and the Astors and the one percent of the Gilded Age throwing lavish parties in their summer "cottages." And rightly so. In that era, this small coastal city served as an over-the-top summer ...

Before Gilded Age newspaper baron William Randolph Hearst built his famous San Simeon castle in California, he held court in two New York residences — both of which are currently on the market. The Hearst penthouse at 91 Central Park West had ...

"American Queen: The Rise and Fall of Kate Chase Sprague, Civil War 'Belle of the North' and Gilded Age Woman of Scandal" by John Oller; Da Capo Press (416 pages, $29) Anyone who thought hanky-panky began in Washington with John Kennedy, Lyndon ...

A luxury card company are producing bespoke Christmas cards which take over a month to create, are decorated with rubies and cost up to $10,000. Card company Gilded Age Greetings, based in Florida and New Jersey, USA pride themselves on their luxury ...

Materials: Water-based glue (Aqua Size works well) Clean paintbrushes Sepp Leaf imitation gold leaf ($120 for a box of 500 5.5"-sq. sheets or $150 for a 6" x 164 ft. roll) Artists and gilders protective topcoat 1. Apply a thin layer of the ...

The Gilded Age of the late 19th and early 20th centuries saw the rise of the Great Camps, built for wealthy families in the Adirondacks, an area of New York State about a five hour drive North of New York City. Most of the camps consisted of ...