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    JEWELRY: Cindy Chao Inducted Into The Musée des Arts Décoratifs

    August 9, 2020 - By 

    Cindy Chao, an elegant woman and world renowned jewelry designer extraordinaire, was once a sweet child taking trips around Taiwan beside her grandfather to exquisite temples. Temples that he had designed as an architect, now considered to be national monuments, and it was on this sacred ground that became the solid foundation of her art form. Training her eye to the elements of what creates not just beauty but an ethereal timelessness that speaks to others, not bound by languages and nationalities, but something that whispers to the souls of humanity. For beauty, you know her when you meet her.…

  • Crown Of The Virgin Of The Immaculate Conception, known as the Crown of the Andes from Columbia, South America; Ca. 1660 (diadem) and ca. 1770 (arches); Colombian; Popayan; Gold, repoussé and chased; emeralds
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    JEWELRY: THE BODY TRANSFORMED AT THE MET

    January 10, 2019 - By 

    JEWELS, COAL, & GLUE AT THE MET MUSEUM Jewelry: The Body Transformed at The Metropolitan Museum has many royal gems even if it didn’t snag Marie Antoinette’s pearl and diamond pendant at Sotheby’s. Instead, the exhibition brings together innovative adornments from a range of centuries and cultures. An 1890s Tiffany Orchid brooch 4 ½” long combines an orchid’s delicacy with the glow of gold and diamonds. A bronze Celtic Northern Italy brooch from 600 B.C. is austere and elegant. It may be a model for a 1994 William Harper brooch Homage to Cy Twombly and Joseph Cornell. Both circular forms…

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    CREATING BEAUTY: KATHRYN SCOTT

    July 23, 2018 - By 

    Creating Beauty Interiors offers full-page photos of ten distinctive city and country homes Kathryn Scott has transformed, including her own elegant five-story Italianate brownstone residence. Scott pairs architectural detailing with classical yet individualistic furniture, cabinets, and art. Her senses of color, light, and space meet her seamless melding of Asian and Western touches – from an artist’s antique doll collection in his studio to an Ai Weiwei table on a wall near a turquoise hearth to a child’s four-poster bed by an open window. To complement her serene, functional interior re-designs, Scott chooses art that often dramatizes nature’s beauty. Her…

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    THE MAN BEHIND THE COVER

    May 24, 2018 - By 

    Bridging the gap between Chinese clients and US talents in the world of fashion. We’ve all seen the glossy magazine covers and spreads with luscious, whimsical tableaus filled with shockingly beautiful models who seemingly live a charmed and perfectly lit life. Though we secretly hope it will happen to us one day, we know reality rarely comes so saturated and bronzed. So, who is the mastermind behind all these candy colored works of art? Much like in music you find the composer, the silent musician, whose passion and precision guides the whole orchestra, in photography his counterpart is the producer.…

  • Tour des voyages Collection Rome Landscape Visual 1 Customized Rome photo by MASSIMOLISTRI feature AD italy september 2014
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    MISHA: ELEVATING SPACES

    March 22, 2018 - By 

    Misha Wallpaper recently showcased their new collection of hand painted wallpaper, called Tour des Voyages during the Maison & Objet International Fair. Their incredible attention to detail, artistic talent, and an eye for setting the scene create an intoxicating atmosphere where the provocative seeds of wanderlust are sure to take place as they turn empty walls into the magical pages of a story book, inspired by the greatest explorers in history, Marco Polo and Matteo Ricci. They also showcased The Spice Route, which travels the path of the Portuguese from Latin America to South Africa and onward to India and Indonesia. The design,…

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    DIPTYQUE- 34 COLLECTION

    September 28, 2016 - By 

    The world renown Parisian luxury goods company diptyque is known for luscious scents, fragrances and candles, that adorn a body or inhabit a room, however many people have forgotten that the company originally began in 1961 as a little boutique on 34 Boulevard Saint Germain, where the founders offered unique textiles that they designed, along with other treasures that they offered such as, Italian glass beaded necklaces, hand-sewn change purses, and specially blended potpourris. Since 2014 the company has reconnected with the heartbeat of the brand and has redeveloped a collection of limited edition objects and fragrances that are in…