Category: Art
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Highly limited: L’Heure Bleue centenary editions
100 years of L’Heure Bleue 2012 marks the 100th anniversary of Jacques Guerlain‘s legendary Belle Époque perfume L’Heure Bleue (1912), one of perfumery’s most beautiful creations. Guerlain pays homage to L’Heure Bleue with two deluxe editions, both highly limited. First, a midnight blue crystal quadrilobe bottle by Baccarat, adorned with an impressive necklace designed…
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BMW Guggenheim Lab Opens in Berlin
Your city may be the future of all cities The BMW Guggenheim Lab opens today in Berlin, the second stop on the project’s six-year global tour. Offering free programs from June 15 to July 29, 2012, the BMW Guggenheim Lab Berlin is a temporary public space and online forum encouraging open dialogue about issues related…
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Winston Churchill’s orchids expected to fetch £750,000 at auction
Over $1m Expected For Painting By Winston Churchill Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was not only one of the greatest wartime leaders of the century, but an accomplished artist. One of Churchill’s paintings, “Still Life With Orchids” (1936) is coming up for auction in London, where it’s expected to fetch £750,000 ($1.17m). The 46…
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Monopoly celebrates the 40th anniversary of Godfather release
Monopoly pays tribute to Godfather Monopoly collector’s game celebrates the 40th anniversary of the release of one of the most influential films of our time. The MONOPOLY game‘s traditional houses and hotels have been turned into Hideouts and Compounds, and the game features new “Don” cards allowing each player to align with a particular…
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The art of tiaras: reveal in each woman a Princess
When you say tiara, you say Chaumet. More than 2,000 tiaras have been made by Chaumet since 1780 to reveal in each woman a Princess. To celebrate the grand renewal of Chaumet’s new Ginza Boutique, Chaumet exhibited mote than 20 signature tiara pieces, including the most recent creation – Josephine Aigrette. “A meeting between past…
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Rural British idyll for the London Olympics opening ceremony
Idyllic London opening ceremony revealed 70 sheep, 12 horses, three cows, two goats and 10 chickens, plus three sheepdogs will transform London’s Olympic Stadium into a rural British idyll for the Olympic Games opening ceremony on July 27, directed by filmmaker Danny Boyle (“Slumdog Millionaire”). “On entry to the Olympic Stadium in East London the…