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Collectors seek out skillfully carved wooden dolls

Wooden dolls date back centuries. The earliest were crude carved pieces of wood shaped like a human figure. But today it’s rare to find a doll made before the 1600s, when English and German draftsmen skillfully carved wooden lifelike dolls.

Local events

April 18

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Special event blends art, interior design, architecture

The American Society of Interior Designers/International Interior Design Association student chapter at University of Nevada, Las Vegas and the UNLV School of Architecture will host its second annual ARTchitecture event at Las Vegas Design Center today. The fashion, art and design exhibition will feature 12 mannequins dressed in fashions designed and created by students using interior design materials. A silent auction also will take place and benefit upcoming local high school graduates seeking to study interior design at the university.

Red magically transforms any space

There’s a story that the late Beverly Hills designer Barbara Woolf loved to tell. I know it wasn’t apocryphal, because she was my wife of 27 years and I know how much she loved the color red. It’s a tale of a woman endowed with a brilliant color sense who one day decided to paint a good portion of her home in a very beautiful and seductive shade of red.

Earth Day every day

Monday is Earth Day. It is one day each year when more than 1 billion people worldwide take time to note changes in the environment and how they can help make it better.