For the opening last year of Chanel's fine-jewelry boutiques in New York, Paris and Seoul, Maurer set miniature, Day-Glo-colored mountains (with diamond "treasures" placed inside) among floors and benches that sparkled with L.E.D.'s.
I was among the hundreds of neighbors and strangers that helped to move waterlogged appliances and personal items, carefully sorting photos, coin collections, and family treasures, placing them out to dry before lending a shoulder to cry on.
A splendid treasure was placed in a fragile, cheap earthen vessel.
As for the onetime investment bankers, they'll be making money in a different way, as Wall Street treasure hunters place their final bids.
Seed stage startups believed it was a waste of time, talent and treasure to place any attention on understanding the regulatory framework in their respective industry before ever building a product or business plan.
The British government stepped in, declaring the object a national treasure and placing a temporary export ban on the item on Aug. 1, meaning it can't leave the country.
I sort of thought I'd become inured to treasured places closing in New York.
That represents one less headache for the landowners for whom further vast enrichment is a more pressing goal than protecting treasured places.
Oct. 16: The World Monuments Fund, which is devoted to saving the world's most treasured places, held its award dinner at the Plaza for 300 guests.
The National Park Service turns 100 this week, and to celebrate its century of protecting American's most treasured places, we asked you to share your memories and photos of the parks.
