The timeless luxury and elegance which is synonymous with the Ritz Paris Hotel has been encapsulated in their prestigious home collection. This year they continued their journey which began in 2017 as they presented, in collaboration with Luxury Living Group, during Maison & Objet 2019. The Ritz Paris Home Collection is a contemporary interpretation of their Belle Époque aesthetic featured throughout the iconic hotel. “Ritz Paris is much more than a hotel, it’s an atmosphere, an art de vivre, that allows itself the luxury of a timeless elegance, creativity and eclecticism. Since the beginning it has been an icon of…
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Galerie Dumonteil, known as one of the preeminent forces in the art market of the twentieth century’s figurative sculpture is presenting the exhibition Gaston Suisse: Master of Lacquer, as the second part of Magnificence of Art Deco, devoted to the oeuvres of seminal Art Deco French artist Gaston Suisse (1896-1988) for the first time in China, until January 10, 2018. The exhibition is now presenting thirty-eight important selections from his lacquered paintings and drawings in the theme of animal life, abstract to geometric style, which won the artist international recognition in the 1930s World’s Fair and International Exhibition of 1937. His…
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The design house of Verdura and Belperron will debut both new and vintage jewelry highlighting each maison’s archival designs from the late 1930’s and early 1940’s. This important showcase is being presented at the TEFAF Maastricht in the Netherlands from March 10-19, 2017. TEFAF is famously known as the world’s leading fair for art, antiques and design, providing international dealers the platform to present museum-quality works of all eras and genres to a broad base of collectors and connoisseurs. There will be iconic pieces from both of these groundbreaking jewelry designers from the early twentieth century. The richly colored…
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Deconstructed Chinese caligraphy by Wei Ligang featured at the Michael Goedhuis gallery offers a traditional art in an ultra contemporary voice. Born in Datong, Shanxi, in 1964, Wei Ligang has been at the forefront of contemporary ink painting’s development from its beginning, and he was one of the organizers of the June 1999 “Bashu Parade” exhibition. After teaching mathematics he moved to Beijing in 1995 to concentrate on his art. His training in mathematics has contributed to his abstract form of calligraphy. Wei Ligang constantly deconstructs and re-forms the characters in his paintings while hinting at traditional script-forms (such as…