The Art of Luxury, ivory

By KEVIN ROBERTS

July 25, 2008 | 1:05 p.m. CDT

C.B. Whalen, left, and Gennie Pfannenstiel gaze at a silver mustache curler placed among portraitures and sandals made out of ivory from South India. Every object in the display was once owned and used by someone.

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