From ancient civilizations to modern fashionistas, linen has stayed on the style spotlight throughout the millennia. There is just something that speaks to us when we touch these beautiful flaxen fibers, a grounded and reassuring energy that welcomes you to come close without pretense and invites you to stay awhile. Once Milano, a luxury home goods and fashion brand based in Italy has embraced this fabric of our ancestors and created timeless pieces for our homes and wardrobe. Founded by Allegra Marchiorello and Valeria Piovesana Thompson in 2013, they were inspired by a rich Veneto tradition of craft and textiles. …
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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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Demisch Danant opens the year with a view to explore more than the visual aspect of art and goes deeper into the meaning and importance of each unique piece. 2018 is the year of ‘Narratives’, an exploration of the stories behind the art and why they have been chosen. Whether the work is a turning point for the designer’s career, represents new innovation in technology and material – or is just a beautiful object, there is a singular begging to be told. Narratives 1. a spoken or written account of connected events; a story. 2. the practice or art…
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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…