It may be at least three years from now before you can actually book a trip to sub-orbital space as part of your stay at Sweden’s infamous Ice Hotel but there are many other reasons why you should still check in now for a short stay.
Every year, Ice Hotel invites artists and sculptors from all [...]
Moorcroft Pottery, one of the most highly respected names in British pottery, is unique, totally individual and utterfly fascinating for collectors. This prestigious line of pottery vases, established by William Moorcroft in 1897, is produced in Stoke-On-Trent, England. Most pieces are still turned on the lathe to perfect the shape and provide a blemish-free surface [...]
To reposition Reuge like a mark of luxury, leader on the market of the top-of-the-range gift, carrying moreover emotional messages: such is the ambition of the only manufacture with the world able to perpetuate the delicate manufacture of the great movements with music and the movements with songbirds. Does the Musical box Francastel Crystal Out [...]
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 [...]
Sir Colin and Lady Anderson were among the first British collectors of art nouveau . The first pieces were bought in 1960, the last in 1971. During this decade the Andersons acquired according to style rather than value, forming a collection that includes not only pieces by leading exponents of art nouveau such as the [...]
The lion first appeared in Rene Boivin’s expanding iconography in 1956 as an oxidized silver, gold and diamond pendant. Over the years, the lion design evolved, not only in its style and varying gem material, but also expanded to include other species of cats. The tiger brooch offered here captures this progression, with its piercing [...]
Insured for $6 million, the fabled Brasher Doubloon — the United States’ first gold coin — returns to Baltimore for the first time in a quarter century for a public display, March 17 & 18, 2006.
The unique, first gold coin made for the United States over 200 years ago, the legendary multi-million dollar Brasher Doubloon, [...]
A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes , by Dusty Horner
This piece takes the shape of the Pumpkin Coach from the famous “Bibbity Bobbity Boo” scene where Cinderellas Fairy Godmother turns Cinderella into a beautiful Princess. Her Rags turn into a Ball Gown, a Pumpkin transforms into a Coach to whisk her off to [...]
This beautiful three paneled purse was commissioned to honor the memory of the world’s greatest choreographer, George Balanchine. He was born in Russia one hundred years ago this year and spent his youth and initial dancing career in St. Petersburg. He traveled to New York after his success in Russia and established the New York [...]
Throughout its history, The Museum of Modern Art has used architecture as a vehicle for self-renewal and regeneration. The recently completed building project represents MoMA’s most extensive redefinition since its founding seventy-five years ago. The Museum combines new spaces with MoMA’s original architecture to dramatically enhance its dynamic collection of modern and contemporary art.
MoMA conducted [...]
