Posted in Apparels, Museum, News on 1 October 2009
There is one piece of cloth that is driving a lot of people to come to the American Natural History Museum in NYC. We are talking about a magnificent textile made from extremely soft but strong silk fiber that comes from a local spider. Measuring an impressive 11 feet by 4 feet, this one took four long years to be designed and woven.
We are told that this is a one of its kind piece of textile ever exhibited in the world. The silk fiber that has made jaws drop comes from the female orb spider, which is a species famed for its yellow-hued webs. These spiders were collected from telephone wires everyday by a host of people by using long poles. In fact, these giant spiders are also commonly found in Madagascar. So, these were silked and then released back into the wild every day.
Posted in Aircraft, Art, Concept, Exhibitions, Museum on 14 July 2009
Now, if you were smitten by the mechanical cheetah that Alexander Chase designed and even wanted to buy it but couldn’t because it wasn’t available for sale; we have some good news to cheer your spirits up. There is an interesting being called te Triceracopter that might just impress you. As the name suggests, it is a helicopter made to look like a tricerosaurus.
It dates back to the post-Vietnam war era (1977 to be precise), inspiring the well-renowned artist Patricia Renick to reflect the obsolescence of war. The Triceracopter has been made in clay potted over a Vietnam-era U.S. Army-spec OH-6 Cayuse helicopter. And then it was giving a final touch with fiberglass.
Posted in Antique, Art, Museum, News on 11 June 2009
The art circuit is all tensed up. Pablo Picasso’s famous sketchbook complete with crayon drawing has been reported stolen from the Picasso National Museum in Paris. The 32 drawings are estimated to be worth between $8.4 million and $14 million. The spectacular designs date back to 1917 to 1924. Being exhibited at the first floor of the building, the sketchbook was not noticed missing until before lunchtime last Tuesday. Apparently, there were no signs of any kind of a break-in. Even the alarm system did not go off.
The pad measures 6 inch by 9 inch and was kept in ahigh security glass cabinet which could be opened with a special key. People are raising questions on the absence of security cameras. The authorities have said in their defence that the Daniel Buren’s works were on display which included a giant mirror, and it might have blocked the view of the staff.
Posted in Architecture, Buildings, Luxury, Museum on 19 May 2009
The Victorian manor in Wales that belonged to the late designer Laura Ashley might soon be converted into a museum. We hear that Ashley’s children are having trouble trying to maintain the historic home, which is why they have approached England’s National Trust to save their mother’s abode. IF all works well, then the Ashelys will sell the 700-acre estate to the trust and have it restored and subsequently, opened to visitors.
Reports suggest that most of the rooms at the manor haven’t been changed much since Laura’s death in 1985. The place is as shabby in its charm as it was then. As part of the restoration, the rooms will celebrate crafts that interested Laura like quilting and screen-printing.
Posted in Entertainment, Exhibitions, Museum on 16 March 2009
Litto Gomez is busy raising money to benefit El Museo del Barrio, which is the only Latin American museum in New York City. For doing so, he has developed a series of limited-edition cigars and boxes with help of artist Ruben Toldeo and his fashion designer wife Isabel. With such strong motivation and creative backing, the end result is pretty impressive.
They call it the La Flor Dominicana; we call it the El Museo Limited Edition Churchill-sized cigar. A lot f effort has gone into making this one. Both the filler as well as the binder come from the La Flor de Palma farm in the Dominican Republic while the wrapper has been shipped from other parts of the country.
Posted in Estate, Museum, Property on 28 March 2008
Art lovers, here is an invitation for you! Reserve yourself in 2010 for making a visit to Bentonville, Arkansas. Why? To adore the unveiling of Crystal Bridges, the art museum designed and erected by Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton. Photographers you too book your schedule as it is an interesting opportunity to ink a neat deal.
Walton is all focused on creating this national art museum devoted to American artists from the majestic period to the current. In 2005, Walton outshined by over bidding a couple of East Coast museums paying a wealthy amount for the 1849 Asher B. Durand work “Kindred Spirits.” While there is a lot raising eyebrows at this art work but then we others appreciating the project both for the inspiring personality of Walton’s anthology and for her choice of installing the masterpiece in here against the pleasing locations of prominent art museums.
Architect Moshe Safdie have very elegantly arranged this glass and light wood structure around two ponds at the center of the complex, spread over by bridges. The structure is set on about 100 acres of Ozarks forest, bestowed by the Walton family. Visitors will pursue a track throughout the woods to a hummock that overlooks the pavilions. And right from the knoll, glass elevators guide visitors to a patio with a glass foyer offering a view of the water.
The museum will offer 34,000 sq feet of exposition space counting cafe, performance hall, and library and research center. It is being said that crystal bridges would surely witness the presence of almost 250,000 visitors a year, once it’s launched.
Via MSNBC/ Luxist
Posted in Estate, Museum, Property on 26 December 2007
Touted as one of the most ambitious building projects globally, Crystal Island to be positioned in Moscow is anticipated to cost $4 billion and would be erected in next 5 years. Spread over 2.5million sq mts, the individual floor region of this giant edifice would be four times the size of Pentagon positioned in Washington DC. It claims to be the self-contained city within city and is 450m tall. It features a blend of structures including museums, theatres and cinemas.
It is being planned that the island would house gamut of civilizing, demonstration and concert services offering 3000 hotel rooms and 900 serviced apartments followed by offices and shops. Each of these accommodation is been calculated to preserve a vibrant and vigorous community sphere all through the day. Active corral panels built into the structural casing allows sunshine to infiltrate deep into the core of the scheme and can be restricted to adjust the interior setting – clogged in winter for spare warmth and unlocked in summer to permit natural aeration.
Gallery: World’s Biggest Building to be Erected in Moscow
Via FosterandPartners
Images: Skyscrapercity
Posted in Designer, Museum on 25 December 2007
The building above is a Yoda’s creation crafted through RP machine. Architect François Roche of a french architecture firm R&Sie has lately won the contest to build an innovative “museum of ice”- an art museum and alpine ice research station in Évolène, Switzerland. François is going to build it with an ogre 5-axis CNC machine in Lausanne that can work a 5-meter by 40-meter area, like heaping up mooch of bread.
The proposed mechanized process is quite enthralling and it would be installed on-site, slice by slice. Around 1000 locally harvested trees are anticipated to be used as a raw material for this installation. Trees are then turned into plywood in fragments of 2.5 meters (w) X 7 meters (L). These perpendicular “segments,” each 90 centimeters deep serves as an installed system holding perfunctory services within their depth. Presently, it is just a computerized developed model.
Via Treehugger
Posted in Aircraft, Alcohol, Antique, Apparels, Auctions, Buildings, Camera, Designer, Diamond, Drinks, Fashion, Gadgets, Gold, Handbags, Jewelry, Luxury, Luxury Brands, Luxury Car, Mobile Phone, Museum, Music, Necklace, Paintings, Precious Stone, Property, Ring, Shopping, Speakers, Spirits, Statue, Swarovski, USB Drives, Vodka, Watch, Wine, Worlds Most Expensive, Yacht, ipod on 15 November 2007
Someone has rightly said the identity of the successful person gets recognized when he is asked for autograph rather than signature. In Blogosphere, the dialysis occurs when a blog gets mature from a label of a baby blog to the pedestal of a majestic presence. Right on the heels of my expectations, I have managed to crack 500 posts (on EliteChoice) within less than a year (with first post on 9 January).
Ideally I should feature myself with a goblet of champagne but I take the opportunity to introduce my internal spirit to you. This two-legged beast is my mirror image who knows the right direction and cherish past with a present energy and looks forward to ink bigger deals in life (in terms of value as size doesn’t make a difference).
Besides my journalistic profession, I was committed to my bloggers’ desk throughout this year and never intended to beat big sharks like Luxist, LuxuryLaunches, UberGizmo, ShinyShiny, Bornrich, UberReview, Blavish and others but am glad that I earned the deserving recognition from them. Also, a three-month-young network with Elite Fashion Blog Bazaar Community is quite satisfying.
It was an exciting journey to chronicle the world of elite products and break the news on the board, respecting the prerequisite of a journalist and curiosity of my faithful readers. Gluing to my very first post that outlined the purpose of my blog, I am happy to set various laurels in that direction and am geared up to offer an unbeatable common-sense perspective on important topics/ products and events of the day.
I am glad to share with you that the onset of 2008 would mark our first anniversary with a lot more unique features on the cards. And yah from today I am all set to offer next 500 posts coming thick and fast.
This Time Three Cheers To Me And My Love:)
Posted in Designer, Diamond, Exhibitions, Jewelry, Luxury, Museum, Necklace, Pearl, Precious Stone, Shoe on 24 October 2007
National Museum of Natural History in Paris has recently opened an exhibition to celebrate the collection of historical pearls. Known as “Perles, une histoire naturelle” (Pearls a natural history), the exhibition would run from 25 October to 10 March 2008. The highlights of the exhibition are:
A mussel shell of the Biwa Lake festooned with cultured pearls blister.
“The Marie-Antoinette pearls” Necklace:
Featured below is a brooch offered by Prince Albert to Queen Victoria (Great-Britain 1843) on their heir 3rd wedding anniversary. The brooch is decorated with pearls, amethysts, garnet, chrysoberyls.
The “Kuweit pearl” with a rose shaped diamond
The biggest soft water pearl “Hope Pearl” with diamonds, emeralds, sapphires, rubis, enamel and gold:
Boots in nacre, deer and goat hair
I doubt if they are for sale.
