| She acts, she directs, she collects objets, she throws diva fits and she never disappoints a press hungry for diva behaviour. |
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| He collected paintings and sculpture, but he had a special eye for objets d' art and interior furnishings and a passion for militaria. |
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| Queen Charlotte was hardly mentioned, even though she was an avid collector of gems, natural history specimens and objets de vertu. |
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| The drawing room upstairs has an interesting assortment of objets d' art and bric-a-brac. |
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| Hidden across Scotland are hundreds of objets d' art, paintings, antique furniture and collectibles stashed away in private houses that you and I have a right to see. |
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| Much of her acquisition of objets d' art was done through Paris art dealers, who were making the Rue Saint-Honore a centre for ultra-fashionable shopping. |
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| The paintings hung in a small cabinet in which were also located a number of antiquities and objets de vertu, in a heterogeneous arrangement like that of a wonder collection. |
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| In the tourist shops of Toraja heirlooms fetch high prices as objets d' art, and land too is sometimes sold for government projects or tourist developments. |
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| Meanwhile, two teams of would-be Bargain Hunters pick up objets d' art at knock-down prices from their local antique fair and then try to flog them down the auction room. |
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| The Russian royal jeweller's name is now synonymous with ovoid objets d' art, as well as baubles and bibelots of mind-blowing beauty and breathtaking imagination. |
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| Within two years they were selling paintings and objets d' art, and within five years they had moved into the estate factor's house and mothballed Whittingehame. |
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| We impotents are great collectors of objets de vertu, snuffboxes, musical boxes, knick-knacks. |
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| The palace features many objets d'art ranging from gifts of Napoleon III to paintings by Franz Xaver Winterhalter and Mexican painter Santiago Rebull. |
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