{"id":641,"date":"2022-04-25T17:59:20","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T21:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/?post_type=contributors&#038;p=641"},"modified":"2022-07-26T10:37:14","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T14:37:14","slug":"alexandra-zagalsky","status":"publish","type":"contributors","link":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/contributors\/alexandra-zagalsky\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexandra Zagalsky"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Alexandra Zagalsky is a London-based journalist specializing in luxury topics, art and travel content. She began her journalistic career in Paris, where she worked on a cultural guide for English-speaking expats. Her first big break was an interview with Lionel Poil\u00e2ne, the late, venerable baker from Paris\u2019s Saint-Germain-des-Pr\u00e9s district who popularized the two-kilogram sourdough loaf and once made a bread chandelier for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/salvador-dali\/\">Salvador Dal\u00ed<\/a>. <br><br>Zagalsky moved back to London in her early 20s and has since worked with a number of august publications, including the<em> Week<\/em>, the<em> Telegraph<\/em>, the<em> Times<\/em> and a variety of art and design outlets, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/introspective-magazine\/\"><em>Introspective<\/em><\/a> and  <em>V&amp;A<\/em>, <em>Sotheby\u2019s<\/em> and <em>Christie\u2019s<\/em> magazines. She studied fine art and the history of art at Goldsmiths, University of London, and continues to explore the contemporary art scene, including the world of NFTs.<br><br>She has written extensively on the subject of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/jewelry\/watches\/\">vintage watches<\/a> and describes the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/cartier\/jewelry\/watches\/\">Cartier<\/a> Crash as her favorite timepiece. \u201cIt\u2019s a great emblem of the Swinging Sixties and an adaptation of the house\u2019s classic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/buy\/baignoire-watch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Baignoire<\/a> Allong\u00e9e wristwatch, its sinuous Daliesque style apparently inspired by a model brought into the London Cartier workshop that had been distorted in a car crash,\u201d she says. \u201cI love it for all sorts of reasons, not least because it\u2019s so unconventional and daring, as all great design objects often are.\u201d<br><br>Find out more about Zagalsky\u2019s work on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/alexandra-zagalsky-33035366\/\">Linkedin<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":868,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"role":[],"class_list":["post-641","contributors","type-contributors","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Alexandra Zagalsky - 1stDibs: The Mint<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/contributors\/alexandra-zagalsky\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Alexandra Zagalsky - 1stDibs: The Mint\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Alexandra Zagalsky is a London-based journalist specializing in luxury topics, art and travel content. 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