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#00023 - An ugly week for a beautiful industry

Furniture stores are shuttering. Luxury fashion is cratering. The economy is cooked. Welcome to the reckoning.

Apr 16, 2026
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Lucas Cranach: “Ill-matched Couple (Young Man and Old Woman)”

Hello readers,

There’s an exhibition at Bozar in Brussels right now that really caught my attention. It’s called Bellezza e Bruttezza (Beauty and Ugliness in the Renaissance) and its thesis is that you cannot have one without the other. The masters knew it five hundred years ago. Titian painted…

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