While Jan David Winitz’s clients are diverse in their backgrounds and reside on six continents, they share a passion for great art and understand how their tastes can be melded into complementary matching of paintings, sculpture and furniture with antique Oriental rugs from the Second Golden Age of Persian Weaving. In the first segment of this two-part series, the president and founder of Claremont Rug Company related anecdotes of how his clients asked him to place rugs that would highlight and complement other collections of their art to create a personal ethos in their residences. In this segment, he describes how he helps guide the process of selecting art-level Second Golden Age rugs for his clients. “Many of the residences where I have placed substantial numbers of antique rugs are of contemporary design,” he says. “One which particularly stands out is a major whole home project where the interior

In this first segment of a two-part series, Jan David Winitz, president and founder of Claremont Rug Company, recalls one of his fondest memories. It was a telephone call that he received from a client after having placed a series of antique Oriental rugs in a “run up” to a seminal oil painting that graced the wall of a substantial mid-1800’s century residence in Greenwich Village. “The lady, an avid art collector, had acquired more than a dozen rugs to set off a multi-million dollar signature painting. She called to tell me that a sum cost significantly less than the artwork, the rugs brought her even more enjoyment than the painting itself,” Winitz said, “She definitely wanted me to know that.” Claremont’s trove of rugs, some 2500 in number, is entirely from the Second Golden Age of Persian Weaving, ca. 1800 to ca. 1910.

Ranging in scale and effect from the monumental to the modest, Rachel Whiteread’s sculptures capture the rich human histories contained within familiar objects. The Saint Louis Art Museum is presenting the first comprehensive survey of the British sculptor’s work. “Rachel Whiteread” includes 96 objects from throughout the artist’s 30-year career. The exhibition previously has been shown in London, Vienna and Washington, DC, where it has impressed visitors and critics alike. In a review of the recent presentation at National Gallery of Art, the Wall Street Journal described Whiteread as the “greatest living British artist.” Since winning the United Kingdom’s coveted Turner Prize in 1993, Whiteread has received many honors and major commissions, including the Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial in Vienna. Her works have been shown extensively in museums around the world. In 2017, the Saint Louis Art Muse

The towering Tyrannosaurus rex discovered in western Canada in 1991 is the world’s biggest, a team of paleontologists said Friday, following a decades-long process of reconstructing its skeleton. Nicknamed Scotty for a celebratory bottle of scotch consumed the night it was discovered, the T. rex was 13 meters (yards) long and probably weighed more than 8,800 kilos (19,400 pounds), making it bigger than all other carnivorous dinosaurs, the team from the University of Alberta said. “This is the rex of rexes,” said Scott Persons, lead author of the study and postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Biological Sciences. “There is considerable size variability among Tyrannosaurus. Some individuals were lankier than others and some were more robust. Scotty exemplifies the robust,” Persons said. While the giant carnivore’s skeleton was discovered in 1991, paleontologists spent more than a decade just removing the hard sandstone that covered its bones. Only