Apr 212013
 
L'Epee Mechanical Clock

L’Epee Mechanical Clock

A major hit at the Baselworld Watch Fair this week was a new, mechanical clock from L’Epée, the Swiss based clock manufacturer.

La Tour is a clock in a completely new vein, with a power reserve of eight days. The clean, minimalist lines of its vertical structure are a canvas for beautiful “Côtes de Genève” motifs on the skeleton plates. The plates are finished in palladium or satin-finished gold.
Each clock is inscribed with an individual number which is recorded along with full details of the clock.
This mechanical sculpture is driven by the 1853 calibre with 18 jewels.
L’Epée was founded by  Auguste l’Epée in 1839. It became the “Manufacture l’Epée” (manufacture carrying connotations of manual craftsmanship). The company today is owned by Swiza SA Manufacture.
 7:15 pm  Art, Tableware, Watches
Feb 152013
 
Gutai at the Guggenheim

The Gutai Art Association (active 1954–72) originated in the cosmopolitan town of Ashiya, near Osaka, in western Japan. Gutai: Splendid Playground presents the creative spectrum of this influential avant-garde collective of the postwar era. Founded by the visionary artist Yoshihara Jirō in 1954, the Gutai group was legendary in its own time. Its young members [READ MORE...]

 2:39 pm  Art, Lifestyle & Leisure
Feb 062013
 
Highlights of the London Theatre Scene - by SOLT

Founded in 1908 by Sir Charles Wyndham, the Society of London Theatre (SOLT) is the organisation that represents the producers, theatre owners and managers of the major commercial and grant-aided theatres in central London.  Society members had a good year in 2012 despite recession, according to a recent report by SOLT. At the time of [READ MORE...]

 7:37 pm  Art, Lifestyle & Leisure
Oct 022012
 
Is it art or is it the Turner prize?

Is it art or is it the Turner prize again? We’re always looking for inspiration. And what better place to look than the Turner Prize at the Tate Gallery in London between 2 October 2012 and 6 January 2013. The £25,000 Turner Prize is presented to any artist under 50, who is alive and working [READ MORE...]

 9:26 pm  Art, Lifestyle & Leisure
May 112012
 
Art Market - Great Shape

Why is it that while Europe is knee deep in economic turmoil that the art market is seemingly stronger than ever? Why is art so disconnected from the wider economic situation brought on by the 2008 financial crisis? Is it, as Les Echos journalist Pierre Gasquet believes, simply another speculative bubble bound to burst? Or [READ MORE...]

 5:22 pm  Art
May 102012
 
Not Abstract - Reality!

A sunset-colored painting by Mark Rothko became the world’s most expensive contemporary art work Tuesday when it fetched $86.9 million at Christie’s in New York. “Orange, red, yellow” was as hot at Christie’s as the colours are bold in this abstract masterpiece. Bids leaped in increments of a million, sometimes two million dollars. Mark Rothko [READ MORE...]

 4:37 pm  Art, Lifestyle & Leisure
Feb 202012
 
Queens Jubilee at the National Portrait Gallery

To commemorate the Diamond Jubilee in 2012, London’s National Portrait Gallery is now showing 60 images of the Queen in a landmark exhibition that chronicles 60 years of Elizabeth II’s reign from Sir Winston Churchill to the present day. The exhibition features works by Cecil Beaton, Dorothy Wilding, Pietro Annigoni, Andy Warhol, Annie Leibovitz, Lucian [READ MORE...]

 8:38 pm  Art, Lifestyle & Leisure
Jun 252011
 
How to make a decent holiday video...

  Before you jet off on your Summer Holidays, why not take a crash course on how to make a decent Holiday video? In another few days the clocks go forward to Summer time, Easter will be upon us, the racing season has started and you’re planning your next cruise. Your video camera is looking [READ MORE...]

 3:30 pm  Art
Mar 232011
 
Tribute to Elizabeth Taylor

Dame Elizabeth Taylor (1932 – 2011) really was the last of a kind. A Hollywood Goddess at a time when it really meant something to be a Hollywood Goddess…How many women could take the shine away from Marilyn Monroe or Princess Margaret? Elizabeth Taylor could. Princess Margaret is rumored to have once said to Elizabeth [READ MORE...]

 10:59 pm  Art
Feb 282011
 
Colin Firth - The Kings Speech and Biography in pictures

Colin Firth was born on Sept 10th 1960, into an academic family – his father David a history lecturer at King Alfred’s College, in Winchester, his mother a lecturer on comparative religions at the Open University. He spent his very early childhood in Nigeria and part of it in St Louis, Missouri before returning to [READ MORE...]

 6:33 pm  Art