Making decorative products from real tortoise shell — mainly produced from the hawksbill sea turtle — was banned in 1973. Today’s faux materials mimic the natural shell’s beautiful mottled browns and ...

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When architect Andrew Skurman recently redid his Paris apartment on the Parc des Invalides, he used local talent for everything from the limestone floors to the vanilla silk draperies that frame the ...