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Azulejo
An azulejo is a glazed ceramic tile used as a decorative covering of walls, floors, and façades, identified with Portugal, where it has been applied for five centuries.
Bactrian Gold
The Bactrian Gold is a hoard of roughly 20,000 gold objects excavated in 1978 from six nomadic burials at Tillya Tepe near Sheberghan, Afghanistan, dating to the first centuries BCE and CE.
Baptistery of Saint Louis
The Baptistère de Saint Louis is a brass basin inlaid with silver and gold, made in Mamluk Egypt or Syria around 1325 to 1340 and now in the Louvre.
Bauhaus metal workshop
The Bauhaus metal workshop was the metalworking department of the German Bauhaus school from 1919 to 1929, producing lighting fixtures and tableware under László Moholy-Nagy and Marianne Brandt.
Bella Hadid
Bella Hadid (Isabella Khair Hadid, بيلا حديد), American fashion model born 1996 in Washington D.C. of Palestinian and Dutch heritage; IMG-signed 2014, Models.com Model of the Year 2016, Orebella fragrance founder, Palestinian advocate, Lyme disease diagnosed 2013.
Bencharong
Bencharong (เบญจรงค์, "five colors") is polychrome overglaze-enamel porcelain made in China to Thai specifications, mainly for the Siamese royal court and nobility from the Ayutthaya period through the 19th century.
Bentwood furniture
Bentwood furniture, German Bugholzmöbel, is furniture of solid beechwood rods bent into shape with pressurized steam, pioneered by Michael Thonet in Vienna in the 1840s.
Better in Denim
Better in Denim is a Fall 2025 advertising campaign by Gap. Starring KATSEYE, the campaign drew over 600 million views and won a Clio Music Gold Award.
Bhavitha Mandava
Bhavitha Mandava is an Indian model from Hyderabad, first Indian model to open a Chanel show (Métiers d'Art, December 2025) and first Indian Chanel House Ambassador, scouted on a Brooklyn subway in 2024 before her Bottega Veneta debut.
Bi (jade)
Bi (璧) is a flat, circular Chinese jade disk with a small central hole, one of the earliest Chinese jade forms, buried with high-status individuals and later symbolizing Heaven.
Bizarre ware
Bizarre ware is a range of brightly colored, hand-painted English earthenware created by ceramic designer Clarice Cliff and produced from 1927 at the Newport Pottery in Burslem, Staffordshire.
Bobbi Brown
Bobbi Brown, American makeup artist; founded Bobbi Brown Cosmetics (1991, ten brown lipsticks at Bergdorf Goodman), sold to Estée Lauder 1995, left 2016, launched Jones Road 2020.
Bobrinsky Bucket
The Bobrinsky Bucket is a cast bronze vessel inlaid with silver and copper, made in Herat in 1163, now in the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg.
Boteh
Boteh (بته), also transliterated buta, is a Persian decorative motif shaped like a curved teardrop or leaf, used for centuries on carpets, shawls, and textiles.
Boucheron
Boucheron is a French high jewelry house founded in Paris in 1858 by Frédéric Boucheron, known for the clasp-free Question Mark necklace and owned by Kering.
Brad Goreski
Brad Goreski is a Canadian celebrity stylist and TV personality from Port Perry, Ontario, known for The Rachel Zoe Project, It's a Brad, Brad World, Fashion Police, Kate Spade brand styling, and judging Canada's Drag Race.
Britney Manson
Britney Manson, stage name of Nika Kraush (born 1995), is a Russian-Estonian transgender model, singer, and TikTok personality who went viral recreating supermodel runway walks, signed with Elite and Embassy Models, and released the 2024 EP Hot Couture with the 200-million-stream hit FASHION.
Bruno Munari
Bruno Munari (1907–1998) was an Italian artist, designer, and writer active in painting, industrial design, and children's publishing, and a leading figure of twentieth-century Italian art and design.
Byzantine cloisonné enamel
Byzantine cloisonné enamel is the technique of decorating gold objects with colored glass fused into wire cells, perfected by Byzantine workshops from the 6th to the 12th century.
Byzantine textiles
Byzantine textiles are the woven fabrics of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire, produced from the 4th century onward in linen, wool, and silk, including imperial purple silks.
C. F. A. Voysey
C. F. A. Voysey, born Charles Francis Annesley Voysey, was a British architect and designer who built about fifty houses and was celebrated for his wallpapers and textiles.
Calum Harper
Calum Harper (born 2002, Gloucester) is a British model and TikTok content creator based in New York, known for Gucci and Hermès runway walks, Karl Lagerfeld and Tommy Hilfiger campaigns, a Dior contract, and a cameo in The Devil Wears Prada 2.
Capilla del Rosario (Puebla)
The Capilla del Rosario is a 17th-century Baroque chapel annexed to the Templo de Santo Domingo in Puebla, Mexico, begun in 1650 and covered almost entirely in gold.
Carved lacquer
Carved lacquer (tihong) is a Chinese technique of carving through many layers of lacquer to create raised designs, developed as a distinct art by the twelfth century.
Casablanca Paris
Casablanca Paris (also Casablanca Tennis Club) is a luxury fashion house founded in Paris in 2018 by French-Moroccan designer Charaf Tajer, blending sportswear with Neapolitan tailoring; 2020 LVMH Prize recognition, Paris and Los Angeles flagships.
Catalan Atlas
The Catalan Atlas (Atles català) is a richly illuminated medieval world map of about 1375, attributed to the Jewish cartographer Cresques Abraham of Palma, Majorca.
Chalice of Abbot Suger
The Chalice of Abbot Suger is a sardonyx cup set in gilded silver, made for Abbot Suger of Saint-Denis before 1149 and now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Chanel No. 5
Chanel No. 5 (N°5), Chanel's 1921 perfume by Ernest Beaux for Gabrielle Chanel, the first abstract aldehyde-floral fragrance with over 80 ingredients, sold at one bottle per 30 seconds, with Eau de Parfum, EDT, and L'Eau versions.
Changxin Palace Lamp
The Changxin Palace Lamp (长信宫灯) is a Western Han gilt-bronze lamp shaped as a kneeling attendant, excavated in 1968 and held in the Hebei Museum.
Chantilly porcelain
Chantilly porcelain is soft-paste porcelain made at Chantilly in northern France from about 1730 to the end of the eighteenth century, the first French porcelain imitating Japanese wares and marked with a hunting horn.