January 2006
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I’ve met plenty of digital dictionaries and thesauruses. But none of them has wooed me away from my trusty stack of reference books, until now. When I enter a term in OneLook, this elegantly simple, and free to use, web site returns a brief definition and links to entries in several online dictionaries, plus it provides results from the thesuruses, a rhyming dictionary, Wikipedia, and many other resources. If you enter a word OneLook can’t find, it’ll suggest words that are spelled similarly. Even better, the site lets you search using wild cards and perform reverse lookups.
For aspiring digital artists, Wacom’s latest entry-level tablet bundle means there’s no excuse not to get in the game. The graphire4 tablet has two programmable keys and a scroll wheel, the pen has 512 levels of pressure sensitivity, and the wireless three-button mouse has a rubberized grip. But the included software Adobe Photoshop Elements3, Corel Painter Essentials2, and nik Color Efex Pro 2 really makes the Graphire4 shine. The 4 x 5 inch USB model costs $84.99; the6 x 8 USB model $165
Jaq Chartier's paintings explore scientific methods through experimentation with paint and process. All of her works are "tests" to discover something about materials and what they do. Inspired in part by images of gel electrophoresis, Chartier investigates the migration of various stains through layers of paint and acrylic gels, like those employed in DNA mapping.
Paintings such as, Kilz vs. BIN (2001), 4 Reactions (2002), and Sun Test: 40 Whites (2004) — titles that attest to such experimentation — feature intimate views of materials as they react to each other, to light, and to the passage of time, including notes written directly on the paintings. Through experimentation, observation, and notation, Chartier creates sensuous paintings that provide commentary on both the visual culture and everyday practice of scientific investigation by highlighting similarities between artistic and scientific practice.
He currently has a solo exhibition at LIMN in San Francisco
Melt Modern is the design team of Matt Proctor and Aixé Djelal. They specialize in the creation of elegantly edgy cast aluminum objects for the home, garden, and commercial spaces. The combination of Melt Modern’s contemporary aesthetic and unconventional metal casting techniques yields a striking fusion of spare organic form and richly textured surface that is not available elsewhere in the marketplace.
Melt Modern offers custom work tailored to your individual needs as well as a limited number of in-stock products. They personally make each piece by hand, ensuring that no two are identical. While the basic shape and dimensions are consistent throughout a line, the surface texture, wall thickness and exterior edges vary considerably from piece to piece.
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Located in Manchester’s Chapel Wharf development, on the Salford side of the River Irwell, at the foot of Santiago Calatrava’s forked Trinity bridge, the Lowry Hotel is without a doubt the queen of the Manchester hotel scene. From the outside, the building’s bowed glass face draws attention; interiors set themselves apart with a cool and crisp, almost Scandinavian look, quite at odds with the comically plush furniture and swank boudoir atmosphere that have become the hip Brit-boutique standard.
Rooms look out through floor-to-ceiling windows, many over the river, and are not just smart, with sleek modern furniture and cool neutral tones, but functional as well, with broadband internet and writing desks with ergonomic chairs. And if it’s over-the-top luxury you want, you’ll find it here, whether it’s a Presidential Suite complete with a baby grand piano, or just the services of a 24-hour bath butler, on hand to draw you a bath mixed with anything from Dead Sea salts to rose petals to champagne.
The Lowry Hotel
50 Dearmans Place, Chapel Wharf
Manchester M3 5LH, United Kingdom
164 Rooms
Rates from GB£130.00
Art Metropole specializes in contemporary art in multiple format: artists books, multiples, video, audio, electronic media, and so on. They offer artists' products for sale on our premises and through their web site. They also publish, promote, exhibit and distribute artists' products in various formats. For information on submissions to Art Metropole, visit their FAQ.
Art Metropole was founded in 1974 by the artists' group General Idea. Art Metropole is a not-for-profit corporation incorporated under the laws of the province of Ontario. Further information on their origins and their history can be found here.
Art Metropole
788 King Street West
Toronto, Ontario,
Canada M5V 1N6
Didier Barré’s 26–ha domain is well up to the generally high standards of the Madiran appelation. The Cuvee Tradition contains 55% Tannat, though you migh guess there is more by its substance and depth. The Cuvee Charles de Batz, with 90% Tannat is a typical Madiran powerhouse needing at leaste five years before it begins to open up. Its ample tannins are impressively fat and unctuous, rather than hard and dry. Barré has 3.5 ha of white varities for an old vine Pacherenc Sec and the sweet, lucious, oaked Symphonie d’automne.
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Jeffrey Campbell is manufactured in Spain. They feature great creativity in small production. There are less than 100 pairs of Jeffrey Campbell shoes in the entire world! Distribution is limited to stores that cater solely to individuals. The goal of Jeffrey Campbell is to offer alternative choices to individuals. Look for the Jeffrey Campbell Shoes in all the magazines!!!. Making fun, interesting and unique footwear, walk on the wild side with fashion forward shoes.
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ZAP's Zinfandel Festival is an internationally recognized series of tastings which are the premier single-varietal events in the world. With an estimated 300 wineries and over 10,000 attendees over four days, held exclusively in San Francisco, ZAP's Festival is traditionally a sell-out.
Wireless in-flight Internet has been available on a handful of international carriers ever since 2004. But several companies are planning to expand service dramatically over the next two years on international and even domestic flights.
Boeing's Connexion service, which is already on 100 planes—including those flown by Lufthansa, SAS, Japan Airlines, and Singapore Airlines—will be installed on at least 100 more by the end of 2006. OnAir, a joint venture between Airbus and the telecommunications firm SITA, currently provides only in-seat text-messaging and Web-based e-mail from mobile devices; however, the company plans to add high-speed Wi-Fi access by 2007. KLM, Iberia, Northwest, Virgin Atlantic, and Qantas are among the 11 airlines who already contract with OnAir. Verizon Airfone is said to be working on wireless Internet, too; however, its service would be limited to domestic flights.
But the spread of in-flight Internet may not please all passengers. Savvy business travelers are already using Connexion to place unlimited international calls from 30,000 feet with free Internet phone services such as Google Talk and Skype All you need is a laptop and a computer headset. So much for getting a little peace and quiet on that red-eye.
Tasca do Edgar, in the corner of Rua Alice (Alice street) and Rua Mario Portela (Mario Portela street), in the neighborhood of Laranjeiras, in Rio de Janeiro, is one of the most delightful places to go and to experience "how to be a carioca".
Do not expect waiters able to speak English. All you can expect is to go to a place not usually spotted in the tourist guides that can offer an atmosphere of what real Rio de Janeiro is all about.
The Portuguese entrepreneur José Luis Ribeiro (better known as Juca) also owns "Bar do Serafim", just across the street and "Adega do Juca" (Juca's Cellar) that is situated nearby, at Gago Coutinho street. His commitment is to offer real good food in an informal environment where families and friends can meet to eat.
The menu is full of Brazilian dishes for you to choose. The samosas - filled with carne-seca (dried meat), shrimp, crab, siri (a soft-shell crab) or cheese - or the codfish croquettes are a great choice to start. Then order a seafood special or try the Brazilian feijoada (typical pork and black beans stew). Ask for a caipirinha or a chopp (draft beer) to drink. If you find enough room for dessert, do not hesitate to ask for one of the marvelous Portuguese yolk-based dessert specials: Pastel de Belém, Toucinho do Céu, Pastel de Santa Clara. They have a big glass window at the counter where you can see the sweets before ordering. Just stand up, have a look, order and wait for the divine dish to come to your table.
And, in these Brazilian summer months, if you go on Saturday, you will have a bonus: in front of Tasca do Edgar, every Saturday before Carnival the rehersals of "Volta, Alice" Carnival Band take place at 5 pm. The parade is scheduled for February 27, at 5pm.
info:
Tasca do Edgar
Rua Mário Portela, 16 - Loja A
Phone: 2558.9447/ 2558.5582
Opens Tue-Sun from 10am. till the last client
Major credit card accepted
No valet parking.
Miss Tanaka is one of the most romantic places to have dinner in Rio de Janeiro. Nearby the district of Jardim Botânico, the Japanese food restaurant is located just in front of one of the greener areas of the
city.
It counts on several charming ambients to have dinner, including a backyard with a folding roof, which allows you to see the stars and the moon in a clear carioca night. Other ambients are special as well
- the tatami mats (Japanese mat), the room with gift wrapping paper walls, the red lantern ambients, the entrance room that has a small lake...
The Japanese food menu is creative and sophisticated. And you can see the sushimen working not only behind the counter but in the big kitchen (it is has glass window for you to admire their work). We
suggest you to try the Shimeji appetizer (mushrooms cooked in sake), hot roll sushis and the beautiful (and tasy) tempuras (fried vegetables and shrimps).
info:
Miss Tanaka
Rua Pacheco Leão, 758, Jardim Botânico
Phone 3205-7322
Working Hours: 18h/0h (mon.), 18h/2h (tue-fri.), 12h/1h (sat.) and
12h/0h (sun.). Major credit cards accepted.
Valet parking at night
The years he spent as an advertising copywriter in Tokyo undoubtedly taught Koichi Hara how to get a message across. He's doing that now in a three-dimensional way: Japonesque, his Jackson Square gallery of Japanese furniture, tableware, and art objects, some of them his own design, is like a sanctuary. "It's for mind and spirit, to give you calm," he says. "Not just for showing art." The pieces—ranging from a burned ca. 1700 Buddha rescued from an incinerated temple on Kyushu Island to glazed contemporary teacups to a table carved from an oak log—are so lovely and beautifully exhibited that some come here just to study his displays. $60 for a bamboo letter opener; $150,000 for a stone sculpture by the Japanese artist Masatoshi Izumi. 824 Montgomery St., San Francisco, CA 94133; 415-391-8860; fax 415-391-3530.
Williams Selyem Winery began as a simple dream between two friends, Ed Selyem and Burt Williams, who pursued weekend winemaking as a hobby in 1979 in a garage in Forestville, California, and made their first commercial vintage in 1981. In less than two decades, Burt & Ed created a cult status winery of international acclaim. Together they set a new standard for Pinot Noir winemaking in the United States, aligning Sonoma County's Russian River Valley in the firmament of the best winegrowing regions of the world. Today John and Kathe Dyson, who purchased the winery from Burt and Ed in 1998, carry on the passion for Pinot Noir winemaking without compromise.
Burt and Ed were neighbors in the Russian River Valley, living across the river from one another. They both held down full time jobs, but were restless to delve further into the object of their mutual passion—wine. Burt was a 26-year veteran pressman for the San Francisco Newspaper Agency, publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner, and Ed worked as the accountant and wine buyer at Speer's market in Forestville, in addition to making his own label called Hacienda del Rio. Burt had begun home winemaking on the weekends, and Ed had traveled the world without leaving Sonoma County by tasting and buying wines for the store.
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It's hard to imagine how it could happen, but a beach resort in the southern Atlantic once renowned for its picture-perfect white and pink sands somehow dropped off the traveler's map. In 1959, when Juan Trippe, founder of Pan American Airways, opened his exclusive Cotton Bay Club on Eleuthera, the 110-mile-long by 2-mile-wide Bahamian island quickly became a playground for wealthy Americans. Then hurricane damage and the demise of Pan Am sent the elite elsewhere, and investors set their sights on nearby Harbour Island and the Exumas. Slowly but surely, however, Eleuthera is rebounding. Last year, Continental added new flights to the island from Miami and Fort Lauderdale. The venerable Cove resort has recently been transformed into a stylish retreat, and a hotel at the center of a real estate development called Pineapple Fields is now accepting guests. And by the end of the year, Eleuthera will see the debut of several small luxury hotels, plus Starwood's 1,500-acre Cotton Bay Villas. This upscale, ecologically sensitive resort, owned by Bahamian locals, will leave the landscape of kamalame trees and pigeon plums largely untouched, and its beach will be the domain of only the lucky few. .
How often does a piece if furniture make you smile?! These handmade merino wool ottomans attract kids and the kid in all of us! Children know just what to do..pounce on it immediately! The rest of us can keep our toes warm in front of the fire or the tube if the pets don't get there first! One of 8 unique and inventive fibre sculptures from Arcade.. to complement the living space. Choose from a dozen rich colors...
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LocalWineEvents.com does not organize or hold events. Instead it points to them, acting as a portal that links consumers with business and charitable interests holding wine and food events. Everyone benefits: consumers learn and have fun; businesses bring their products and services to the public's attention; and non-profit groups raise money and public awareness of their cause. Five years after its launch, LocalWineEvents.com surpassed 50,000 posted events from around the world and has 600,000 unique visitors per month.
Wineries, restaurants, bars, retailers, hotels, businesses, organizations and charities may use LocalWineEvents.com to post event information (date, time, place, cost, etc.) directly onto the Internet at no charge.
Postings also include a map to the event location and a web link to the event-holder's own website. Event information can then be viewed by visiting LocalWineEvents.com, or by subscribing to “The Juice,” a free e-mail newsletter that lists upcoming events for whatever city/region the subscriber chooses. Site users may also choose to receive event listings via RSS and MyYahoo feeds.
Marmol Radziner Prefab homes are made from recycled steel and are completed in our factory with your choice of finishes, details, and appliances, many of them environmentally friendly. The homes are not kits or panelized systems; the full construction of your home takes place in the factory, and the finished house can be delivered and placed on your site in as little as 5 months from the time your order is placed. There are three floor plans available, each thoughtfully designed to complement the landscape. They also offer three installation options to meet your budget and site needs.
Combining the speed and convenience of factory-made houses with the specificity of custom residential design, Marmol Radziner Prefab provides beautiful and sustainable modern homes you can own today.
Fort Ross Vineyard is primarily a Pinot Noir vineyard in an area that many believe will ultimately shine as brightly as Burgundy. Our Pinot Noir plantings include field selections of Calera, Pommard, and Swan as well as Dijon clones 115 and 777. The vines are planted on a variety of rootstocks, depending on soil types, grafting requirements and rootstock-scion compatibility. During harvest, grapes are handpicked in the cool early morning hours, hand sorted, destemmed, cold soaked for several days and fermented in simple open top fermenters and manually punched down. Shortly after pressing, the wines are aged in 100% French oak barrels, both new and used. Throughout destemming, fermentation and barreling, clones are kept separate to maintain their distinct flavor profiles and structural components. Blending trials determine how to combine the different clones into distinct wines that best reflect their component flavor profiles. The objective is always to create wines that reveal their fruit with structure, balance and finesse. The wine is unfined and with rare exceptions unfiltered
The 2002 Pinot Noir reflects the vintage, which is considered to be the finest ever for California Pinot Noir. It tempts with a bouquet of roses, mesmerizes with its gorgeous deep purple color and fills your palate with ripe red and black berries enlivened by East Indian spices. This well structured wine with supple tannins gains depth and complexity through the lingering finish.
Groundswell: Constructing the Contemporary Landscape presents 23 landscape-design projects that reclaim and transform urban spaces—many derelict and in need of rehabilitation—into public parks and gardens. Groundswell features examples of the new artistic richness and critical debate in the design of public spaces, from small urban plazas to large parks for post-industrial sites to long range plans for entire urban sectors. The exhibition is organized by Peter Reed, Curator, and Irene Shum, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art.
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The House at.. Hautefage was designed as a bucolic bolthole for writers, musicians and film-makers; a place of rest, retreat and rustication, perfect for the creative polish or final push. Of course, if you want to just kick back and enjoy the scenery, pool and the lovingly understated interior (two and a half years in the making), and leave your creative juices simmering elsewhere, you can do that, too.
Service levels are dictated by the guest. If you want your food shopping and cooking done, that can be arranged. And, as the retreat is in France's gastronomic heart (there are two Michelin-starred restaurants within ten minutes' drive), the food is something to get excited about. Indeed, so keen are Gillis and Maclean on local fare, they're looking to produce a food range under The House At name, with a London store planned in the near future. The House At only opened last summer, but the pair are already thinking about adding a screening room, editing suite and recording studio. So if your rom-com, short film or difficult second album needs a little quality time and attention, this is the perfect place to retreat to.
For Booking Inquiries contact Kle Savidge @ kle@thehouseat.com
The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) will open a new waterfront museum in September 2006 with a full range of inaugural exhibitions and expanded public programming. Designed by celebrated architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the art museum is the first to be built in Boston in nearly 100 years and is destined to become one of the most recognized architectural landmarks in the city. The 65,000-square-foot building, featuring a dramatic folding ribbon form and a cantilever that extends to the water's edge, provides a bold presence for the ICA and symbolizes the museum's commitment to contemporary art and design.
The ICA will be located on the Boston Harbor waterfront, the city's largest undeveloped frontier and a burgeoning creative center. The ICA will join the new Rafael Viñoly-designed Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, the Children's Museum, and soon, a continuous 47-mile public walkway along the water’s edge that will connect cultural and historic attractions.
Half-Full is a design and communications collaboration devoted to providing highly effective, affordable, and imaginative design solutions for folks concerned about environmental and social justice. Our goal is to create a louder, more powerful voice for issues that affect all of us every day, everywhere.
From annuals to ads to logos to websites, our designs incorporate branding on every level. Organizations like Greenpeace USA, ForestEthics, and Rainforest Action Network rely on us to create everything from ads that run in USA Today, Wired, and The New York Times, to websites that attract international attention. And there’re not afraid to hit the streets themselves, armed with banners, stickers, signs, and unconventional creative solutions.
Working with their clients to determine the most effective and innovative solution for their needs is what we love. In fact, strategic analysis, coupled with original thinking, is at the heart of every project we undertake.
Half-Full was started by Libby Kleine, who is an excellent artist herself. You can view her work online
Join Provactive thinkers in technology, architecture, business, media, and science at the prermier gathering of design innovators.
The 2006 Art Center Design Conference Stories from the Source: Radical Craft Thursday, March 23–Sunday, March 26, 2006 Art Center College of Design South Campus Pasadena, CA
Stories from the Source: Radical Craft will examine the most advanced examples of craft in architecture, the arts, science, technology, storytelling, fashion, food, magic and more.
Over three exhilarating days, Radical Craft will explore the extremes of craft, including:
– satellites and space exploration
– invented worlds in stagecraft and animation
– digital-game wizardry
– haute couture vs. “UnFashion”
– craft in the service of humanitarian need
– the art of the 30-second story
– new paradigms of industrial production
– sleight-of-hand craft
– extreme custom car design
– crafting the news
FLOAT is the inspiration of an architect who gathered together the skills and insight of fabricators, designers, and strategists who found common ground in a love of art, a passion for innovation, and a belief that well designed furniture can enlighten and enhance the lives of individuals. I first tried the long white float chaise when staying at The Standard in Los Angeles. They have 6 of the lined up next to the rooftop pool.
The founder, Jeanne Scandura, is a practicing architect and educator whose urban office ScanDesign produces works that holistically integrate architecture, landscape architecture, and interior design.
Initial investigations into the convergence of sculpture and furniture involved pouring rubber cushions, casting tabletops, and molding light fixtures. The resulting collection evokes a range of atmospheres from Mediterranean poolside modern to urban loft chic. Translucent materials create a delicate interplay of light, texture, and color. Each piece invites tactile exploration. Surfaces that appear soft are actually quite solid, and those that appear hard are given pliability of form and line.
FLOAT strives to create objects with material integrity that improve over time, respond to the human form, and welcome a dialogue with architectural space. The furniture reflects a joy for experimentation, versatility, and cultural curiosity.
For more information on products please feel free to call or visit the website.
Wine Collector gives you the tools you need to automatically manage your wine -- an award-winning IntelliScanner handheld barcode scanner, premium wine tracking software, and pre-printed asset tags all packed in a custom wine crate package from IntelliScanner.
It's everything you need to keep track of wine collections of any size, from a small home collection to an extensive wine cellar or restaurant collection. So throw away that spreadsheet or complicated software where you're typing and sorting and not getting very far, and take a look at Wine Collector. You'll love the flexibility, and you'll never miss a peak year again.
Wine Collector makes it easy to...
• Manage wine collections with ease
• Scan wines in and out of inventory
• Track bottle locations and racks
• Scan anywhere, then download the
barcodes to your PC or Mac
• Store ratings and tasting notes
• Keep tabs on wine maturity
• Keep a permanent tasting history
• Find wines based on any criteria
• Share wine information with others
• Print and save customized reports
The Fuji FinePix V10 is the first model in Fujifilm's 2006 digital camera line-up to utilize Real Photo Technology. Like its 2005 predecessors with Real Photo Technology, the FinePix V10 does an outstanding job of removing graininess or "noise" from its digital pictures. Image noise, much like static in a television signal, reduces a picture's sharpness. The noise problem is compounded when digital pictures are shot at higher light sensitivities, which can vary depending on lighting conditions.
With Real Photo Technology, the FinePix V10 generates less noise than similar digital cameras and can therefore take pictures at light sensitivities as high as 1600 ISO at full resolution. Higher sensitivities open the door to a host of user benefits when combined with quicker shutter speeds. Those benefits include less shake and blur due to hand and subject movement as well as more detailed and natural-looking pictures taken in low-light environments.
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Domaine Cotat is a small 9–ha domain producing sancerre Chavignol La Grande Cote and Sancerre Les Monts Damnes by fastidiously non-interventionist methods which, because of the presence of residual sugars after particularly sunny years have cost the COtats the appellation on ocassion. These are the Sancerres to get hold of if you wish to see what age can bring indeed in youth their quiet unshowiness can often leave drinkers nonplussed.
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Can a Zen Buddhist monk improve your skiing? Find out at a Utah session of Ski to Live, a one-of-a-kind, spirituality based ski and snowboard clinic where skiers delve deeper into the powder by looking deeper into the self. Participants in the four day clinics discover new strengths while facing their fears on the slopes and in life. Former professional extreme skier Kristen Ulmer was inspired to create the program when she realized that good skiing has less to do with technique than it does with the state of mind. Participants start the day with yoga, then hit the slopes with thoughtful instructors, including Ulmer, intent on pushing past mental and physical boundaries. In quiet afternoon settings, Zen Master Genpo Roshi leads all persuasions of powder hounds down a path of self-discovery. The result is the clarity of pure awareness, which can increase control over the thoughts that affect physical performance, including skiing. Ski to Live takes place at Snowbird Resort, January, 5–7; Alta, Utah, March 23–26; and Sugarbush , Vermont January 27–29
The new vortex-shaped, outdoor installation by architects Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues warps the flow of space with a featherweight rendition of a celestial black hole; “the deadliest force in the Universe.” Hovering over M&A's courtyard “Maximilian's Schell” is a spectacle the size of an apartment building that has been stopping traffic along Silver Lake Boulevard since its unveiling in June. Constructed with tinted Mylar resembling stained glass, the vortex functions as a shade structure, swirling above the outdoor gallery.
The interior of this immersive experimental installation creates an environment for enhanced social interaction and contemplation by changing the space, color, and sound of the M&A courtyard gallery. During the day as the sun passes overhead, the canopy casts colored fractal light patterns onto the ground while a tranquil subsonic drone from an integrated ambient sound installation by composer James Lumb (Electric Skychurch) entitled "Resonant Amplified Vortex Emitter," lightly rumbles below the feet of visitors.
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Since launching her eponymous accessories line in 2001, Tracy Tanner's playful-yet-sophisticated wallets, handbags and wrist cuffs have attracted a cult following among fashion-forward iconoclasts who relish her bold color sense--the designer is known for mixing and matching leathers and linings with whimsical abandon--as well as her painstaking attention to detail, which is evident in the contrast topstitching on a butter-soft billfold, the punch-hole details of a two-tone wristband, and the delicate leather squares that adorn a dark denim satchel.
These bespoke touches are typically more common to clothing than accessories, so it's not surprising to learn that fashion was Tanner's first love. After a stint at Central St. Martin's College in London, she graduated from Pratt Institute in 2001 with a BFA in fashion design, earning the Critic Award for her women's sportswear collection, which included five leather jackets with contrasting vintage-inspired linings--kicking off the 'fun and functional' aesthetic that is the hallmark of her current collection, which is entirely handmade.
You can’t buy them on her website but they are stores in New York, Los Angeles, among other places. I saw them at The Yolk in Silver Lake
The Orion Atlas 11 EQ Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope observational and astro-imaging system combines giant 11" Schmidt-Cassegrain optics with the beefiest GoTo mount in its price class. It’s a “do-it-all” instrument that can take you places no other comparably priced telescope can go — quickly, accurately, and easily.
The superb 11" optics are made in the U.S.A. by Celestron and feature StarBright XLT high-performance coatings for enhanced light transmission. The optics are housed in an aluminum tube that’s decked out with a 9x50 dovetail finder scope, 1.25" diagonal, 26mm (107x) Sirius Plössl eyepiece, and dovetail mounting bar for attachment to the Atlas equatorial head.
Searching for objects is a thing of the past with the Atlas EQ-G GoTo mount. It offers computerized pointing to any of 13,436 celestial objects in the hand controller’s database. Dual-axis DC stepper motors slew at speeds of 2x to 800x sidereal (up to 3.4° per second) and track at sidereal, lunar and solar rates. Backlash compensation in both axes and periodic error correction (PEC) provide the responsiveness for guiding and the tracking acccuracy needed for astrophotography. The drive base is equipped with a CCD autoguider port and input for 12-volt DC power.
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Some cities are filled to the brim with chic and hyper-modern designer hotels, but Paris could always use another one. As such, Hotel Sezz is a welcome addition to the landscape, the perfect antidote to the prevailing antique hotel trend. Here, in the 16th arrondissement (hence the name), Starck protégé Christophe Pillet has created a dramatic and stylish space, a hotel that would turn heads in Milan or Barcelona and looks all the more surprising in staid old Paris.
But first you have to find it; rather than sandwiched between designer shops and department stores, Sezz is tucked away down a quiet street in an upscale residential neighborhood, with not a shop or restaurant in sight. And the facade itself is absolutely classic, offering no hint of the fantasy inside.
Once through the doors, it’s another world, one dressed not in the flashy whimsy of a Starck, but in Pillet’s own original style, a black-and-red futuristic boudoir chic. Walls of exposed grey stone convey a subterranean atmosphere, and the ultra-modern furniture is severe and masculine. It all feels a bit like the devil’s own bachelor pad, with the freestanding bed occupying the center of the room atop a thick crimson rug. Bathrooms are impeccably designed, with oversized tubs easily large enough for two. And while the single room may be passing out of style, the singles at Sezz are possibly the best we’ve ever seen.
Public spaces include the first Veuve Clicquot champagne bar in Paris, certain to become one of the city’s most in-demand nightspots, and a jacuzzi, hammam and massage room in the basement, for when that oversized soaking tub isn’t doing the trick.
Combination of pure wood and cool glass: the coffee table Yaqui forges these materials together into a single intriguingly beautiful creation. The base of the occasional table can easily be slid under the coffee table so that the two graphically form one matching piece. Yaqui is available as a coffee table and an occasional table. The coffee table is made of solid Masai, a mix of warm shades of wood. The glass table leaf of the occasional table is available as standard in clear glass. Other glass colours are also possible.
Buy it online at The Magazine
The Amandana VP-100: Llaminated bamboo, is used for its body. Equipped with a flat-touch panel, it allows easy button operation. It's an entirely new portable DVD player, where you can enjoy high-quality images as well as the satisfaction of possessing it. It is equipped with 10-inch-wide LCD; the largest among the portable types. Able to display TFT Active Matrix 1,150,000 pixels with progressive scanning. With a large, high-definition LCD, you can enjoy the beautiful images even with a portable. High-quality sound is essential when you want to enjoy DVD. The amadana portable DVD player supports the Dolby Digital sound system, recreating realistic sensations such as a roaring jet plane or the sound of a gun, as if you were actually there!
Not sure where you can buy it or what it costs, but damn it looks good.
San Francisco International Art Exposition: Featuring more than 75 international galleries representing more than 2,000 artists, this year's show is an eclectic collection of modern and contemporary artwork in a variety of artistic styles and media that range from painting, drawing, photography and printmaking to sculpture, video, installation and mixed media.
From museum-quality masterworks by Andy Warhol, Georgia O'Keeffe, David Hockney, Edward Weston, Richard Avedon and Willem de Kooning to works by young, cutting-edge artists, the San Francisco International Art Exposition provides private collectors, museum curators, corporate consultants and art enthusiasts with an opportunity to view and select work from a comprehensive exposition of 20th century art
Fort Mason, San Francisco
Thursday, September 29 – Sunday, October 2, 2005
Hours:
Thursday, September 29: 11am – 7pm
Friday, September 30: 11am - 7pm
Saturday, October 1: 11am - 7pm
Sunday, October 2: 11am - 6pm
Located bang in the centre of Stockholm, La Camera has a slick interior, courtesy of Scheiwiller Svensson Architects, the menu consists of appetisers from which you can pick 'n' mix accordingly, while the epic cocktail menu promises to be the talk of the town.
This historic domaine has bee run for over a decade along biodynamic lines by the son-in-law of war hero Gstaon Huet, Noel Pinguet. The three vineyard sites are Clos de Bourg, Haut Lieu, and Le Mont, and as well as Sec, Demi-sec, and Moelleux verisons, there are also distinctions among the latter according to trie. The Demi-Sec and Moelleux wines are exemplary and often brilliant, with fine acid balances and classic flavours of buttered walnuts and autumn leaves. Some of the sec wines, by contrast, can provide difficult drinking for all but the most committed Chenin Blanc aficionados. In 2000 Pinguet bought the Domaine de Vodanis in Vouvray a 5–ha estate being converted to biodynaimcs at present.
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