London-based designer Lee Broom has shown us that an ordinary bulb can become a sophisticated decorative element. In association with the only producer of full lead crystal left in the UK – Cumbria Crystal, Broom has created Crystal Bulb. Inspired by delicate craftsmanship of crystal cutting and designer’s Decanterlight range, Crystal Bulb is perfect combination [...]
Audi used the 2012 Wörthersee Tour in Austria to unveil a new bike they have created for sport, fun and tricks. The Audi e-bike Wörthersee is a high-end performance bicycle designed and custom created by Audi engineers to features everything best possible for a bike in terms of design, lightweight construction, networking and electric mobility. [...]
One of the top items in Bonhams sale of Fine British and European Glass & Paperweights on May 30 in London, will certainly be a rare example of a wine glass engraved with a portrait of The Eagle, a privateer, circa 1760. The flared bowl of the glass is decorated with a three-masted ship, inscribed Succefs [...]
At Sotheby’s Evening Sale of Contemporary Art on May 9, Roy Lichtenstein’s Sleeping Girl from 1964 sets a new record. One of the high points of the artist’s comic book-inspired paintings and an icon of postwar American art fetched a new record price of $44.8 million. A 36 x 36 inches, image of a sultry blonde exceeded its [...]
Pablo Picasso’s Déjeuner sur l’herbe, 1962, and Amedeo Modigliani’s Femme nue assise, 1916, are both expected to bring more than $80,000 to lead a pack of art world giants in Heritage Auctions’ May 22 Modern & Contemporary Art Signature Auction, taking place at the company’s Dallas Design District Annex, 1518 Slocum Street. This is a [...]
An outstanding selection of rare twenty dollar gold coins highlights HA’s upcoming US Coins Signature Auction, to take place May 30-June 3 at the Long Beach Coin and Collectibles Expo. The most prominent among the double eagle offerings in this auction is probably the Eliasberg/Duckor 1931 coin. At MS66, it is surpassed in grade by [...]
Lenny Kravitz isn’t excellent only in music, but also in creating stylish interior wall tiles. In coolaboration with Italian tile manufacturer Lea Ceramiche, famous singer, songwriter and rocker has debuted Three-dimensional Ceramic Tiles. In 2003 Kravitz put together a creative team and set up a design studio – Kravitz Design Inc. Goccia Three Dimensional Tile Collection [...]
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