HOUSE
Sian Ballen and Jeff Hirsch visit architect and designer Bill Brockschmidt and partner architect Richard Dragisic at their New York studio.

SOCIAL DIARY
The great European Fine Arts Fair at Maastricht in the Netherlands, opening day frenzy for art collectors from all over the world.

SOCIAL DIARY
Ancient and modern times in Maastricht, the city founded by the Romans, still with remnants of their wall, a tour of the hotel, more of the exhibitions, plus a five course dinner (four wines) at the Chateau St. Gerlach.

GUEST DIARY
Jill Krementz Photo Journal - Kentridge Redux. Part III of William Kentridge Trilogy.

DINING
Bits & Morsels. Jordana Z took advantage of the heavy weekend rains by going to Motorino where she knew there wouldn't be a forty-five minute wait. "Pizza is an intensely personal thing," she wrote. I'll say. Let's go....

SOCIAL DIARY
A beautiful Spring day in New York. Friends selling up and moving south; the upcoming paperback publication of Michael Gross' "Rogues Gallery" with a new cover to stir things up; plus the television debut of Tinsley Mortimer and her own reality show.

ACROSS THE WORLD
Washington Social Diary. Carol Joynt goes to the first gay wedding in DC at the local Ben & Jerry's; plus reports that the Washington version of Bravo's "Housewives" "may be on ice;" also attends the Vital Voices Global Leadership Awards; a book party for Ted Leonsis.

ACROSS THE WORLD
Shanghai Social Diary. Jeanne Lawrence meets designer Han Feng, long a New York based designer now in Shanghai who has become one of China's most celebrated designers as well as costume designers; plus a shopping tour for shoes, for birds, flowers and even singing crickets.