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    INTERVIEW: Burcu Garnier of Color Atelier Talks Pantone Color of The Year

    March 7, 2025 - By 

    Written By: Alicia Kunkel This year Pantone named Mocha Mousse as 2025’s Color of the Year. We reached out to the premiere color house Color Atelier, known for their all-natural pigments, and spoke to one of its founders Burcu Garnier, for her take on the Pantone’s choice and other color trends she is seeing designers reach for this year. What brought you to the luxury paint industry? I have always been passionate about the intersection of art, design and sustainability. We saw a gap in the market for high-quality, artisanal finishes that are both environmentally friendly and aesthetically refined. My…

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    FINE ART: Ted Hartley’s ONWARD Exhibition

    February 11, 2025 - By 

    Written By: Alicia Kunkel Perhaps if we knew that we would live to 100 years of life, each of us might choose to be brave enough to become all that we wished we could become. A dancer, a marine biologist, a cowboy, a president. Would 100 years be enough time to be all the versions of ourselves that we dream that we could be? Well, without the guarantee, Omaha born Ted Hartley, lives his life with a mission of always moving forward and never letting the past pull him down with regrets and doubt. His 100 years of life have…

  • 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…