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    DESIGN: BACIOCCHI

    A luxurious shopping experience is often just as much about the ambience as the fabulous designs held within.  The refinement of plush furnishings, marble floors, and vases overflowing with lilies and orchids create the atmosphere that makes the point of purchase much more exciting and fulfilling than hitting the ‘buy now’ button on your online shopping cart. There’s a reason it’s called shopping therapy, because all the beautiful elements combined as a whole are greater than the sum of their parts; the delicate signature fragrance of the boutique, the satiny ribbon wrapping the gifts tight, the glittery polished brass, and…

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    JOAN B. MIRVISS: CELEBRATING 40 YEARS IN JAPANESE ART

    Joan B. Mirviss ltd is celebrating its 40th anniversary! This March they are marking the occasion as the gallery presents the important exhibition, “Timeless Elegance in Japanese Art: A Celebration of Forty Years” accompanied by a fully illustrated publication. This celebratory show includes forty plus works of art carefully chosen over several years in anticipation of this milestone. Twenty of these works, by living artists working in clay and long represented by the gallery, were created or specifically selected by each artist for this event. The balance of this exhibition consists of major, innovative paintings and famous ukiyo-e prints by important eighteenth and…

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    PANTONE GOES GREEN

    It’s a new year and Pantone the Color Institute has decided that it’s time that we all turn over a new leaf.  As such they have dubbed this year of 2017 the year of ‘Greenery’. After 2016’s wild ride we can all agree that it’s time to step outside and take a deep breath for a fresh start, refresh and renew as nature intended. “Greenery bursts forth in 2017 to provide us with the reassurance we yearn for amid a tumultuous social and political environment. Satisfying our growing desire to rejuvenate and revitalize, Greenery symbolizes the reconnection we seek with…

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    DINOSAUR SCULPTURE

    DINOSAURS IN WONDERLAND The contemporary and modern art gallery, Galerie Dumonteil, in New York,  is once again creating an incredible exhibition. Known for their specialty of curating works with a perspective on the animal kingdom for over 30 years, they have played a major role in the discovery and rediscovery of the amazing figurative artists from the 20th Century. Showcasing the talents of those whose greatest inspiration is nature herself, from Bugatti to Giacometti, Guyot, Pompon to Artus, along with many more. This special exhibition features the animal kingdom from long ago. Nothing is extinct to the artist’s eye and…

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    TEMPLE ST.CLAIR EXHIBIT

    This year’s 2016 GEM Awards winner for best jewelry designer, Temple St.Clair, is welcoming her upcoming thirty year anniversary as a jewelry designer with the debut of her third and final chapter of The Golden Menagerie Collection: The Big Game.  This incredible Haute Couture jewelry trilogy has explored everything from rare and meaningful creatures to mythical creations. This year’s chapter delves into a deeply important realm in the animal kingdom – endangered species. Using her exceptional design skills and working closely with her jewelry craftsmen and women of Florence, Temple St. Clair has imagined these precious beings into precious jewels…

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    REPORT: CHRISTIE’S IMPORTANT JEWELS

    Kicking off the international jewelry auction season Christie’s offered their Important Jewels event in New York City, by Rockefeller Center this month where over two hundred and fifty lots were available, with estimates ranging from under $5,000 to $750,000 USD. The sale total came to an impressive $10,526,150 USD. The over all market was choosy yet buoyant as the more spectacular pieces easily soared over expectations. This is the beginning of the highly anticipated auction season which every year offers the general pulse of the marketplace within the jewelry world. Next up Christie’s Magnificent Jewels auction will take place in…

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    SALON: ART+DESIGN 2016

    This November 10th-14th, Salon:Art+Design, one of the most talked about art exhibits is back at the Park Avenue Armory. This incredible event is a showcase of the unique, bold, rare, and extraordinary. You’ll find everything from Salvador Dali to Zaha Hadid; surreal to zero space, French antiquities to high jewelry. Pick your passion and explore it up close and personal with the curators and masters in the field. The Salon Art + Design welcomes the world’s finest galleries exhibiting historical, modern and contemporary furniture, groundbreaking decorative arts, and late 19th and 20th century fine art. Visitors will find designs by…

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    FORMAFANTASMA – DELTA

    The Roman design gallery Giustini Stagetti and Formafantasma have collaborated to create a very special collection ‘Delta’, curated by Domitilla Dardi, who is the design curator of MAXXI Architecture in Rome. A unique perspective on Roman design with a studied focus on historical elements, stripped and raw, leaving only essential lines and refined beauty. This is part of the gallery’s ‘Privato Romano Interno’ program curated by Emanuela Nobile Mino that, since 2012 with the first collection designed by Fernando and Humberto Campana, commissions designers to use Rome as a source of inspiration for new furniture pieces. The delta of a…

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    ART: ILLUSTRIOUS MOVEMENTS

    In J. Lohmann Gallery’s first ever pop-up exhibition you can explore the Illustrious Movements. Also in a continuation of celebrating premiers, this will be the first time Copenhagen’s  Sandra Davolio and London’s Merete Rasmussen, two of Europe’s foremost ceramic artists, will be exhibited in a show in the United States. Building on already accomplished international careers, Davolio and Rasmussen are taking design and craftsmanship to an even higher level creating some of the most innovative and fascinating new sculptural forms. Both artists will be present at the opening reception. Opening reception Thursday, October 13, 6-8 pm 156 Orchard Street, New…

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    THE LANGUAGE OF FASHION

    The School of Visual Arts’ special Public Art Installation curated by Linda Fargo, Senior Vice President and Fashion Director of Bergdorf Goodman, on Madison Avenue. Enjoy these amazing creations during New York Fashion Week!From September 8 to September 18, the work of 21 talented School of Visual Arts students will be displayed on Madison Avenue spanning between 57th & 79th Streets in an art installation entitled “The Language of Fashion”; a fun, artistic take on fashion during NYFW. While designing the installations, the students were individually being mentored by top names in the fashion industry. Mentoring Designers Include: Altuzarra | Rosie Assoulin | Francisco Costa | Jennifer Csengody…