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Charles Schneider Art Glass At Valerio Antiques

Filed under: Decor

The Art Deco period produced some of the most beautiful works of art in glass, pieces that have a deft mix of playfulness and craftsmanship. Valerio Antiques in Coral Gables, Florida has a selection of many fine glass artists but their Charles Schneider Gallery is a treasure trove of delicate beauty displaying the glassmaker's work from when he first began in 1913 through to the height of his career in late 1920s. Schneider's works feature bright colors and intriguing shapes in forms both natural and abstract. The piece shown above is the 1927 Poissons Grand Vase. The clear bubbled glass vase with an acid-etched pattern of fish swimming among reeds has powder inclusions in blue overlaid in orange tango to green for a unique multi-dimensional effect. It is from the Le Verre Francais line and is the largest piece Valerio Antiques has seen in the 25+ years they've been in business and it has yet to be illustrated in any of the Charles Schneider books. These highly collectible antiques can be expensive, prices at Valerio start around $2,900 and the Poissons vase is $79,000.

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Versace To Relaunch Versus For Aspirational Consumers

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Apparel

Back in January, Versace CEO Giancarlo Di Risio emphatically stated that Versace would not be dropping prices in response to economic pressure. It seems now that he has found another method of courting the consumer with less to spend. Versace is relaunching its second line Versus. The bridge line was originally created by Gianni Versace in 1989 as a project for his sister Donatella.

Versace has signed a deal with Italian company Gruppo Facchini to create clothing and accessories lines for men and women which will be ready for Spring/Summer 2010. A new company, VSV, will be created and Gruppo Facchini's Mathias Facchini will be chief executive. The company predicts turnover of more than 700 million euros in the first five years. The Versus line offers luxury that Di Risio told Reuters is more "aspirational, more accessible."

Versus will open 20 boutiques by 2011. Fashion Week Daily reports that a preview of the line is scheduled for March 1 in Milan.

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Nonprofit Theaters Making Cutbacks

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Art, Charity

Opera isn't the only cultural institution that has hit difficult times. Bloomberg News reveals that nonprofit theaters are struggling as well. A new survey by the Theater Communications Group finds that out of 210 member theaters, a full 77 percent are taking another look at the expenses for the coming year and making cuts where they can, often by replacing big scale productions with more modest efforts. Many expect to hit cash flow problems this year as the economy leads to a decrease in ticket sales and a donations shortfall. Theater salaries which are already low are expected to dip even further. So far around 10 U.S. theater companies in the U.S. have either shut down or sent out a distress call. One of the largest was the American Musical Theatre of San Jose, which had its first show back in 1935 filed for bankruptcy protection on December 23.

Gallery: Culture in Trouble

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SUSHISAMBA 7 Shares their Valentine's Day Cocktail Recipes

by Annie Scott (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Dining, Spirits, Events

SUSHISAMBA is a staple restaurant for many New York sushi lovers. Though Japonais normally has my vote for best sushi, SUSHISAMBA 7's Valentine's Day plans look amazing.

SUSHISAMBA 7, at 87 Seventh Avenue South, will be featuring a number of delicious dinner specials, including Maine Lobster Taquitos, Tuna Tataki, Lobster & Palmito Salad, Oysters & Pearls, Pan Seared Foie Gras, Austrialian Wagyu Beef Tataki, Kobe Gyoza, Japanese Style Salt & Pepper Mongo Ika, Broiled Alaska King Crab, Seared Muscovy Duck Breast, and Braised "Bone In" Short Ribs. Yum!

Best of all, they're featuring Naughty and Nice Valentine's Day Cocktails, and we have the recipes. Here you go:

Naughty
3 strawberry halves
1 piece of watermelon rind
Muddled jalapeño peppers
1.5 oz tequila
0.5 oz creme de fraise des bois liqueur
0.5 oz sweet and sour

Muddle fruit and jalapeno peppers in glass until pulverized. Add liquor, shake vigorously and strain. Serve in martini glass and garnish with a pierced strawberry and jalapeno.

Nice
3 strawberry halves
1 piece of watermelon rind
1.5 oz tequila
0.5 oz creme de fraise des bois liqueur
0.5 oz sweet and sour

Muddle fruit in glass until pulverized. Add liquor, shake vigorously and strain. Serve in martini glass and garnish with a pierced strawberry.

You can keep those delicious drinks on the books all year! If you haven't finalized your Valentine's Day plans yet and are in New York, call 212-691-7885 for reservations.

Tags: cocktail, cocktails, drinking, drinks, entertainment-awards, sushi, sushi samba, sushisamba 7, valentine, valentines, valentines day

Moncler Opens in Gstaad

by Jared Paul Stern (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Apparel, Sports

While many luxury labels are in the dumps these days, luxe French sport line Moncler is bucking the trend and opening new stores instead of shutting them. They recently opened their first freestanding US boutique in Aspen, and also just opened an impressive new shop in another ritzy ski resort, Gstaad. The Gstaad boutique features a luxurious alpine chalet theme with bluestone floors, pinewood ceilings and walls designed to evoke downhill skiiers in motion. Moncler, founded in France in 1952 and now based in Milan, has collaborated with the likes of Balenciaga, Yohji Yamamoto and Fendi, and is a favorite with stars such as Christina Aguilera, Alicia Keys, Victoria Beckham and Kanye West. It's high-end Gamme Rouge line (above) is designed by Italian fashionista Giambattista Valli. Last summer we reported that private equity firm The Carlyle Group acquired a 48% stake in the company.

Tags: Aspen, entertainment-awards, Gstaad, Kanye West, KanyeWest, Moncler, Ski resorts, Skiing, SkiResorts, Switzerland, Winter sports, WinterSports

Scouting For Art

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Art

If you are looking for a place to find the next Damien Hirst or Cecily Brown you might want to check out Scouting for Art, a new website that sources its portfolio from young and talented artists, including recent English Art School graduates, showcasing them on its website. The site features an ever-changing selection of up and coming artists, with prices ranging from £50 to £2,000. The site features award winning artists, who have had recent sell-out exhibitions, including Ina Dorthea Thuresson, who designed the projections used at Madonna's Hard Candy tour. The company is based in South West London and was set up by Charlie Wheatley, a former art student from Camberwell School of Art and graduate of University of Northumbria.

The piece above is from Tahnee Lonsdale who graduated from Byam Shaw School of Art in 2007 and has already been showing work in a number of galleries around London. She creates large paintings in her studio in West London that depict strange stories backdropped against surreal landscapes. The piece above"Hitchcock" measures 48" x 48" and sells for £1235.

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Panerai to Open NYC Boutique Next Month

by Jared Paul Stern (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Timepieces / Watches

In December, luxury Italian watch brand Officine Panerai will open a new boutique in New York City, its second stand-alone U.S. store (the other is in Los Angeles). Panerai has been on an expansion binge of late, with recently opened shops in Florence, Portofino, Hong Kong and Shanghai. In addition to the NYC store, openings are planned for Buenos Aires, Madrid, Qatar and Dubai. The furnishings in the Panerai Boutiques are inspired by the sea, as Panerai started out supplying instruments to the Royal Italian Navy. Teak and steel are the predominant materials employed in the shops' nautical design, while furnishing details evoke diving suits and equipment, with porthole-shaped display panels recalling yacht fittings.

Tags: entertainment-awards, New York, New York City, NewYork, NewYorkCity, Officine Panerai, OfficinePanerai, Panerai

Movie Screens on Cruise Lines, Good Idea Or Not?

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Yachts & Sailing

USA Today's Cruise Blog recently reported on the fact that Princess Cruises is adding 300-square-foot screens on the top decks of seven more of its Princess ships over the next three years (it already has the screens on the top decks of seven ships already). The giant LED screens can show movies day and night as well as broadcasting sporting events such as the Super Bowl and concerts and plans to broadcast an exclusive-to-the-cruise-industry concert by top-selling recording artist Josh Groban. Personally I'm no fan of the giant screens but some of the hard-core cruisers seem to really like them. Other lines including MSC Cruises and Carnival Cruises offer movie screens on deck on some of their ships.

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Armani Opens Largest Boutique In Milan

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Apparel

It's a good time to go shopping in Milan, Italy. Not only did Tom Ford open a store over the summer but Via Montenapoleone is now home to the biggest Giorgio Armani boutique in the world. The new store is in the Palazzo Taverna the historic home of Milanese poet Carlo Porta.

Sfilate gives us a peek inside Armani's new domain. The store is over 21,000 square feet and has three floors. The ground floor houses accessories and clothing for women, Giorgio Armani Privé fragrances and Crema Nera and Skin Minerals skincare products. Armani Casa objects have been designed exclusively for the store and will only be sold in this location.

The first floor is the men's emporium featuring clothing and accessories with special spaces reserve for the Classic Giorgio Armani and Made to Measure lines. The second floor is devoted to evening wear and accessories for women and luxury goods including Giorgio Armani Privé precious jewels and Giorgio Armani Borgo 21 watches. The store is done up in sleek black lacquer and dove gray fabric. The post on Sfilate has a few pictures which show small racks of clothing dramtically placed against pale backdrops surrounded by black.

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Abramovich Bankrolls Bacon Show at Girlfriend's Gallery

by Jared Paul Stern (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Art, Wealth

Profligate Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich is bankrolling a major Francis Bacon exhibition at his gorgeous 27-year-old girlfriend Dasha Zhukova's new Moscow art gallery in 2010. The show at the luxe gallery, called the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture and also financed by Abramovich, will be entitled Death Shadowing Life: Francis Bacon: The Late Paintings, 1971-92, and will subsequently travel to the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, The Art Newspaper reports. The announcement would seem to explain Abramovich's astounding $86.3 million acquisition of a Bacon triptych at Sotheby's in May. Zhukova's gallery officially opens on Sept. 16 with an Ilya Kabakov retrospective.

Tags: Art galleries, ArtGalleries, contemporary art, ContemporaryArt, Dasha Zhukova, DashaZhukova, entertainment-awards, Francis Bacon, FrancisBacon, Hermitage Museum, HermitageMuseum, Ilya Kabakov, IlyaKabakov, Moscow, roman abramovich, RomanAbramovich, Russia, Russian billionaires, RussianBillionaires, Sothebys

Sugarcane Opens in Las Vegas

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Filed under: Dining

Sugarcane is the latest night club to open on the Las Vegas Strip. Sugarcane opened on Friday at the Palazzo Resort-Hotel-Casino. The club is located adjacent to SushiSamba's Las Vegas restaurant and will feature samba dancers, geishas, distinctive cocktails and over-the-top interior design. The 4,000 square foot club includes a stage, dance floor and DJ booth made of bamboo, smoked and frosted acrylic, resin and paper. Gold and chocolate brown leather cover wenge wood banquettes and the club's theme is displayed through 4,000 custom-made simulated "sugarcanes" which drop down from the ceiling and contain moving lights that wind through the tubes and rods. Brazilian graffiti artist Felipe Yung ("Flip") has also taken the spray paint can to various elements of Sugarcanes décor.

Continuing the Brazil meets Japan theme, entertainment will include exhibitions of capoeira, a Brazilian dance that incorporates martial arts, samba dancers, geishas, Japanese taiko drummers, models posing as Brazilian soccer players who will juggle soccer balls at the entrance and Sugarcane's in-house dancers. The cocktails also reflect the restaurant's Japanese, Brazilian and Peruvian culinary roots with drinks such as the Parisian Geisha (vodka, sake, mint and lemongrass), the Figo (Montecristo spiced wine, fig liquor, pear juice and lime) and the Bushido or "Soul of Japan" (shochu, plum sake, muddled plum and daikon beer float). Sugarcane's Cocktail Tree ($70) showcases 12 different drinks (four samples of three different drinks), positioned within the branches of a wrought-iron, sculptural "tree." They also have a large sake collection and offer sake bottle service.

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Design Your Own Linens, by Cittadini

by Lisa Palladino (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Decor, Services

Cittadini, founded 18 years ago, specializes in high-end, luxury linens. Made in the region of Florence, Italy, the styles are detailed and feature much embroidery. You can order custom bed or table linens, as well as towels. Select from 10 flange styles, 50 towel colors, 100 sateen colors, and 200 embroideries (0 up charges). If you're in the NYC or Long Island area, there's a showroom on Fifth Avenue (by appointment) and a boutique in Manhasset. For more info and prices, contact the company.

Tags: bathroom, bedroom, decor-awards, decor-main, embroidery, entertainment-awards, home, Italian, Italy, linens, sheets, table, towels

Prada Opens New San Francisco Flagship Store

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Prada lovers have a new place to play. A new flagship store has been opened in San Francisco's Union Square shopping area. The new store was designed by architect Roberto Baciocchi and has entrances on Post Street, Grant Avenue and Maiden Lane. It takes the place of the smaller women's-only Prada boutique on Geary Street. This new store offers the full range of merchandise for men and women including custom tailoring.

The retail area is on a single floor of approximately 5650 square feet and linen cloth in Prada's pale green hue covers the walls and furnishings. The women's area features bright colors and curved seating upholstered in lilac velvet and steel wile the men's area has palisander wood furniture, polished steel elements, and dark brown velvet seating. The store is part of Prada's initiative to have flagship stores in all of the famed shopping locations where they do business worldwide. Store interior shots can be found at Sfilate.com

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Skybar Miami's Cool New Cocktails

by Jared Paul Stern (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels, Spirits

The poolside Skybar at the luxe Shore Club in Miami Beach (above) has revamped their chic cocktail menu in time for the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week swimwear shows (check out a sizzling slideshow of bathing beauties here). The indoor/outdoor oasis, which is comprised of four different settings - the Redroom, Redroom Garden, Sandbar, and the Rumbar, which has 75 different varieties of rum - is intertwined with lush gardens ad secret passageways. Check out the gallery for photos and recipes of the new libations, but you'll have to actually go there to get the special Skybar Bento Box prepared by the Shore Club's own branch of Nobu.

Gallery: Skybar Miami Cocktails

Tags: Cocktails, entertainment-awards, Hotels, Mercedes, Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, Mercedes-benzFashionWeek, Miami, Nobu, rum, Shore Club, ShoreClub, Skybar

Breil Milano Opens New York Store

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Timepieces / Watches

Italian accessories company Breil Milano has opened a new flagship store at 148 Spring Street in Soho, New York City. The stores is one in a series of flagship stores which Breil Milano is opening luxury cities. It evolves from the new monobrand boutiques recently opened in Berlin (February 2008), Florence and Barcelona (April 2008) .

The New York store is located in a historical building but the boutique has a modern contemporary style which combines warm color tones with bronze and green tints. The entire left-hand wall is covered by original tiles by Dutch artist Edwin Vlassenroot who also sculpted lampshades in copper.A more private space has been created at the lower level where jewelry and watches are available to the public. The next stores are planned for Rome and Milan.

[via National Jeweler]

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