Luxury art and collectables
Sir Howard Stringer, Chair of the American Film Institute’s Board of Trustees, announced the decision to honor actress Jane Fonda with the 42nd AFI Life Achievement Award, the highest honor for a career in film. The award will be presented to Fonda at a gala tribute on June 5, 2014 in Los Angeles, CA. … Read more
THE “DELIGHT” OF BEING TOGETHER: Marcello Maloberti for Zegna Foundation’s ‘All’Aperto public art program. Italian artist Marcello Maloberti is the artist featured in the 5th edition of the Project All’Aperto curated by Andrea Zegna and Barbara Casavecchia from Zegna Foundation. To breathe new life into the terraces of Centro Zegna, a space now in disuse … Read more
Small Luxury Hotels of the World’s Art Hotels Re-inventing Art Exhibitions. Hotels are now competing with galleries and museums as an alternative exhibition space and engaging creative directors and curators to help them select works for permanent or temporary exhibitions. With over 520 hotels around the world, Small Luxury Hotels of the WorldTM (SLH) is … Read more
Native only to Australia, the Koala populationsare listed in the majority of eastern Australia as vulnerable to extinction. The main threat to the koala is loss and degradation of habitat. Organizations like WIRES from Australia are doing what they can to help koala populations survive. Wires is the largest wildlife rescue service in Australia, … Read more
Edible science and high art – The making of elBulli shared in Ferran Adria’s cookbook opus. The final and most creative chapter for the El Bulli restaurant. Every recipe from the last seven years of elBulli (Catalonia, Spain), the world’s most creative restaurant, is shared by Spanish culinary celebrity Ferran Adria in a seven-volume opus … Read more
In the centenary year of Vivien Leigh‘s birth, the British film and theatre actress’ archive will be made available to the public for the first time. The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) announced that it has acquired the archive of Vivien Leigh (1913-1967). The archive comprises many never-before-seen records including affectionate letters between Laurence Olivier … Read more