And now, in the U.S. city with the largest population of Koreans, “Beyond Line: The Art of Korean Writing” spotlights calligraphy at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Shortly before he died in 1824, famed poet George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron, bequeathed his desk to his valet. He himself had often hated this mahogany desk with its dozen secret drawers, its ...

If you should wish to buy, for example, Bourdain’s gorgeous Nielsen desk, which will start at around $800 when the auction goes live online in October, it might help to know that 60 percent of ...