Archive for March, 2006
As soon as a mechanical watch offers more than the hour, the minute and the second, it is included theoretically in the category of the watches to complications, because any additional mechanism is regarded as a complication. Without wanting to exploit the words, it should well be said that this concept evokes the repetition minute rather that the simple addition of the date to standard posting. In an intuitive way and without formalizing it, the clock making world and the amateurs make the distinction between the large ones and the small complications, placing the great ringing at the top and the simple day of the month at the ground floor.
The posting of the date goes up however very high in the hierarchy when it is one perpetual day of the month, this complex mechanism which will require a correction only in year 2100. The very complicated watches cumulate several devices of high flight, ballasted of astronomical indications. Sometimes taking forms of club-sandwich, these stratospheric make dream, but remain out of reach the common run of people. Fortunately, there are the small complications which can be useful and much less expensive: days of the week, time zones, the indicator of the reserve of walk, the stop watch. They can be ludic also, with for first merit animating the dial. The clock and watch makers enjoy to associate them. The model which lance this year in Basel
de Grisogono illustrates perfectly this step. What from the start jumps to the eyes, it is the strong design of this
FG ONE, with its rectangular bent case, its vertical grooves and its two dials. Do not seek the crown of reassembly and setting per hour of the two spindles: it is dissimulated under the bracelet, at midday. The small useful complication, one included/understood it, is the second spindle which posts in the counter smile of the principal dial, to 6 h. Its posting is known as trailing or progressive in opposition to that of the hour of the first spindle, at midday, which is one hour jumping. The retrograde minute is given in a vast arc of 230 degrees swept by a dauphine needle. In the same register of visual animation, a second dial in half-moon offers one second retrograde.
March 29th, 2006
WHEN: March 30 - April 06, 2006
WHERE: Basel (Switzerland - Europe)
Basel Fairground
Messeplatz, CH-4021 Basel, Switzerland
WHO: Messe Basel
Messeplatz
4021 Basel
Switzerland
BASELWORLD is the leading event for the watch and jewellery industry. A unique opportunity where 2,200 exhibitors - specialists in watches, jewellery, precious gems and related brands - showcase their latest products to those in the industry. Visitors can browse through a select assortment of products in luxurious surroundings covering over 160,000 m2 of exhibition area on several floors. Many world-famous names in the watch and jewellery industry choose to show their products exclusively at BASELWORLD. Basel is your only chance to see their very latest creations.
The selection of products showcased at BASELWORLD is unique. BASELWORLD is the only place where you can find such a broad cross-section of products from the entire industry all in one place. Products sectors are clearly segmented and divided between the six exhibition halls. Watch brands, jewellery brands and related brands have their own halls and there are also national pavilions. A show designed to give you a complete market overview and provide you with an ideal business platform.
Every year in spring time, over 85,000 retailers and wholesalers from all over the world make the journey to Basel to visit this presentation of the latest trends and creations offered by the watch and jewellery industry. Don’t miss the unique business and networking atmosphere at the world’s leading watch and jewellery show. Don’t miss BASELWORLD!
March 29th, 2006
Titanium is harder to work than gold, but its lightness is ideal to carry out important jewels. This metal opens new possibilities for models made up of many stones. It has another characteristic which encourages the creativity: it changes color according to the heat to which it is worked. Titanium proposes itself a range going of the pink to blue while passing by chestnut and the yellow. Adler naturally chose titanium in order to present a collection of original pins, at the same time elegant and sporting. This traditional jewel covers a new youth with adler, which interprets the nodes, flowers, hearts and sheets with an innovating but always harmonious glance. Titanium gives life to the pin which is seen in charge with emotion and dynamism. adler finds balance between the lines and the colors, the movement and the glare, always in search of surprises.
Titanium came as a natural choice for Adler, who is launching a collection of original brooches that are both elegant and trendy. adler rejuvenates this classical jewel by reinterpreting traditional motifs – knots, flowers, hearts and leaves – in an innovative and harmonious fashion. Titanium gives life and emotion to these new creations. adler finds the perfect balance between curves and colors, between lines and sparkles, always looking for surprises that defy conformist expectations.
March 28th, 2006
Water Wonder’s fountains are handcrafted in California and available through the finest retailers around the world. They are formed from copper, natural slate, glass and gorgeous river stones. Custom, semi-custom and production models are made and all can be engraved with your message or logo.
Fountains provide the soothing relief of serene water sounds combined with the striking looks of sculpture with moving water. All of our fountains are designed to provide maximum water sound while utilizing whisper quiet pumps. The fountains have a water reservoir that recirculates. All you need is a power outlet and to periodically add water (larger installations can include an autofill system). Even the largest of our fountains can be set up by anyone with basic handyperson skills.
Treat your senses and your decor to the reinvigorating effects of this moving work of art.
As water continually cascades down the beautiful slate surface, it produces negative ions, which freshens the air, promotes a positive mood, and enhances your personal energy.
In addition, the calming sound of the water relaxes you and soothes your spirits while masking intrusive noises like traffic or office conversation.
March 28th, 2006
WHEN: April 03 - 07, 2006 Detroit SAE SHOW
International Congress & Exposition of Automotive Design Engineering
WHERE: COBO Convention Center
One Washington Boulevard
Detroit, Michigan
USA - United States
WHO: SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers)
400 Commonwealth Drive
Warrendale, PA 15096-0001
USA - United States
The SAE World Congress continues to be the one forum that brings together vehicle manufacturers, suppliers, government, and academia from around the world for the exchange of ideas on the state of advanced automotive technology and business. This unique combination of technology, knowledge, and people-that takes place at industry’s most comprehensive technical learning event-creates a highly effective environment in which relationships are formed, innovative ideas born…and the groundwork laid for success in today’s global marketplace.
SAE received more than 2,300 technical paper abstracts for the 2006 technical session program. After a formal peer review process, final selections will be posted to the SAE website beginning in November, 2005. Included in the submissions are abstracts for these new technology areas as identified by host company, BMW Group: Hydrogen ICE and Hydrogen Car Design; Nanotechnology for Automotive Applications; Advanced Production Technologies; and Mechatronics.
Of the 2,300 abstracts submitted, more than 400 were offered in each of two general areas: Materials and Body Engineering. The remaining 1,500 submissions cover the technology areas of Advanced Electronics, Advanced Propulsion, Advanced Materials, Emission Control Technology, Military Vehicle Technology, Safety, Chassis Technology, and Environmental Sustainability.
The final technical program for the event will consist of approximately 200 sessions featuring more than 1,500 technical paper presentations. Additionally, the AVL Technology Theater, an exhibition hall venue, will host the SAE 2006 Executive Management Conference; it will feature more than 100 keynotes and panelists-top executives and officials from industry, government, and research and academia. The FEV Innovation Forum, a second exhibition hall stage, will feature some of the event’s most popular technical sessions. The event’s truly global exhibition is expected to include more than 800 companies with one in four from outside the USA. Rounding out the learning opportunities SAE 2006 are approximately 40 SAE Seminars, carried out onsite at Cobo Center.
SAE 2006 is expected to attract more than 35,000 registered attendees from more than 45 nations.
March 28th, 2006
A hot breath sweeps the plain. The sun splits the ground, the white light strikes the brown stone. Here, nature doesn’t lost its rights forever. With far is detached a proud silhouette overlapping a thoroughbred race. Warriors massed, sentinels of the desert, assemble the guard on the rock. Coppered skin, hair with the wind, it carries new the Baby Open Star Coils. Small last of the range, it comes S? to add to the Open Star, the stop watch become in the whole world of female emblem of Manufacture ZENITH. Whereas its large on reveals in its heart the exhaust of the gauge El Primero, the Baby Open Star Coils shelters in a case reduced to 32 mm a new automatic movement Elite 68. Placed in a design dedicated to the love, it palpitates, valiant, proudly exhibant its small second in the shape of heart which makes a full rotation on itself in one minute. Round like the curves of femininity, it proposes a new interpretation with the removed from rim partition of passion: a removable bracelet of force out of oiled silk, oversize indices, a fleshier heart, a softened case. Condensed, but always also burning, it speaks about love, with tenderness.
To the colors fetishes of the red range passion, major black or luminous white are added in limited series the 2006 beige sands, purple Parma and the brown ZENITH, out of Star as in Baby Star. On the models in yellow gold or pink, the dial becomes animated in folded sun and a shiver undulates under the ice sapphire. On the glasses, a setting glance lights the fire of the desire.
Always also daring, the range associates happiness the spirit Manufacture and a creativity in freedom. It affirms high and strong that the beauty and the intelligence can cohabit, and that insolence is possible when it allots absolute quality. Because one can face the codes of the propriety only in only one condition: a perfect technique been useful by an exemplary know-how.
March 27th, 2006
The “PirelliFilm” project begins with a series of short films on the Internet featuring international stars. The first film, “The Call”, can be seen at www.pirellifilm.com .
Directed by Antoine Fuqua, the director of “King Arthur” and “Training Day”, the film was shot over a five-day period in Rome and required four months of post-production in the United States .
Pirelli Group makes its film debut with its presentation in Rome , in the ancient atmosphere of the Diocletian Baths (400 B.C.), of the first Pirellifilm, an innovative communication project that will take place over several years and consists in the production of superb short films to be broadcast over the Internet.
Created for the worldwide promotion of the Pirelli image, which has always been acclaimed for its innovation, quality and brand leadership, this project combines Cinema and the Internet and uses them as a new communication tool that joins the instruments traditionally used by the group.
The leitmotiv of all the Pirellifilm short films will be the claim, “Power is nothing without control”, the protagonist of several of Pirelli’s famous international advertising campaigns, which will be interpreted differently each time by international film stars.
The first short film, which can be seen starting today at www.pirellifilm.com , is “The Call” starring John Malkovich and Naomi Campbell . The director is Antoine Fuqua, who directed “Training Day” and “King Arthur”. Filmed with a dark, gothic mood in a mysterious, tempting nighttime Rome , “The Call” is a breath-taking thriller of just 8 minutes and 45 seconds that depicts the eternal battle between Good and Evil.
Its “Caravaggio-like” colors and moods are obtained through skillful photography that elegantly plays with contrasting light and shadow, blending the chiaroscuro effects of the film, which was shot last fall in Rome in great secrecy to prevent the project and the name of its stars to be revealed in advance. It took five days to film on various locations - Borgo Santo Spirito, the streets of Rome , and an abandoned warehouse outside of Rome - and 4 months of post production. Nearly 120 persons worked non-stop on the set.
March 27th, 2006
Pevonia Botanica spa care believes everyone deserves to look youthful and feel healthy, reflecting one’s own alluring skin radiance.
Offering a complete line of spa care products containing the finest natural marine and botanical ingredients, combined with technologically advanced formulas and treatments to deliver outstanding results. The comprehensive Pevonia brand includes an extensive line of spa face and body home care programs and in-spa face and body treatments for all skin types. Utilizing only the most natural botanical and marine elements the oceans and earth have to offer to ensure phenomenal visible results are obtained.
Exhale and relax as your therapist administers an advanced tri-phase stonemassage therapy far exceeding traditional stone massage. Sabai’s synchronized therapeutic massage with micronized minerals Malachite and Zincite, de-stresses your entire being…mind, body and spirit.
March 27th, 2006
Founded in 1895 in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, the de Young Museum has been an integral part of the cultural fabric of the city and a cherished destination for millions of residents and visitors to the region for over 100 years. On 15 October 2005, the de Young museum re-opened in a new facility designed by the Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron and Fong & Chan Architects in San Francisco. The new de Young provides San Francisco with a landmark art museum to showcase the museum’s significant collections of American art from the 17th through the 20th centuries, modern and contemporary art, art from Central and South America, the Pacific and Africa, as well as an important and diverse collection of textiles.
The new unconventional building draped in dramatic copper skin will house new commissioned works as well as its significant collections of 17th to 20th century American paintings, including art from around the globe. The first rotating special exhibition will be Egyptian Art from Queen Hatshepsut’s reign (1473-1458 BC), showing the significance of a woman ruling in a patriarchal society.
Within the landscape design, historical elements from the original building of 1895 have been incorporated, such as the sphinx sculptures, the Pool of Enchantment and the original palm trees. With the collections in its sister museum, the Legion of Honor, San Francisco has one of the largest art museums in the US.
The colection of museum:
American Painting
American Sculpture & Decorative Art
African Art
Oceanic Art
The Jolika Collection of New Guinea Art
Textiles
Art of the Americas
The Dorothy and George Saxe Collection of Contemporary Craft
The views from the top of the deYoung Museum tower are incredible. You can see downtown skyscrapers; the Marin headlands, and sometimes the Pacific Ocean. You can see down to the museum’s architecture and copper roofing. The controversial architecture is exciting the architecture community and all of San Francisco. This Herzog & de Meuron designed museum is a touchstone for any fan of 21st century design. The museum’s president was attracted to the design team after seeing a uniquely designed signal box and depot at a train station.
Design cues for the museum were taken from the surrounding Golden Gate Park. The intention was was to have the building be light, strange, and blend with the park’s setting. The copper skin of the building will age and patina into a green tone over the next 15 years. The twisting tower is the building’s unique trademark to align it with the pattern of San Francisco’s streets.
The art galleries flow together and match with the art collections styles. The size, style, and lighting of galleries differs based on the art itself. The light variance is most pronounced in areas that allow views out of the museum to the park’s beautiful surrounding gardens. The museum’s primary intention is to connect the museum viewer with the outside world. The de Young Art museum allows people, art, San Francisco, and nature to be joined as one.
March 27th, 2006
The business objective of the Silken Group is to introduce a new concept in hotel and catering, by creating a new dimension in services and facilities that make our visitors’ stay more enjoyable. With our motto Passion for Excellence, Silken Hotels offers a new philosophy in customer service. Both the amenities and the services have been designed to provide an exceptional standard of comfort and make visitors’ stay as enjoyable as possible .
The hotel managed by the Silken Group commissioned eighteen world-class architects and designers to work together on the project.
The Silken Hotel Group (a business venture by the companies Escampa and the Hotel Group Urvasco S.A) has presented the Hotel Puerta America project this morning, which has brought together, for the first time in history, eighteen architects and designers of international standing to create a space that will fire the imagination and stir the senses of visitors. Alberto Ruiz Gallardón, the mayor of Madrid, has pulled the lever to reveal the hotel façade decorated with passages from the poem “Liberty” by Paul Eluard.The Hotel Puerta América has 360 rooms (30 rooms per floor) and 644 parking spaces, with a total surface area of 34 thousand square metres. The junior suites will be located on either side of each floor (sitting room, bedroom and two bathrooms). There will also be 12 suites on the 12th floor. A masterpiece of architecture and design, where eighteen acclaimed architects and designers have joined forces, for the first time in history, to create a space that fires the imagination and stirs the senses of visitors.
A cultural manifesto where different cultures, beliefs and races coalesce to create a unique project but in wich each design concept is totally different.
To see the next opening hotel, visit www.hoteles-silken.com
March 27th, 2006
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