Sofitel Silver Lining
Probably we have all had dark moments since March of this year with the Covid-19 pandemic. To help cheer up Londoners, Sofitel commissioned a new piece of public artwork entitled Silver Lining. Intended as a surrealist piece centred on optimism, several locations set within the St James’s neighbourhood have been reimagined with “shimmering silver ribbons” […]
Artemisia
Artemisia Lomi or Artemisia Gentileschi was an Italian Baroque painter, now considered one of the most accomplished 17th century artists, and possibly the greatest female artist of the time. Artemisia was brutally raped at the age of 17 by landscape artist Agostino Tassi, during whose trial she was tortured. For the very first time in this exhibition […]
Can the internet be safe?
In time to come, when we have defeated COVID-19, and we reflect and take stock of what helped us all to keep going during the Pandemic, I predict it will be the internet. Without the internet and internet-based services, this Pandemic could have had very different outcomes all round. Vital communications, information dissemination and essential […]
Eternal Beauty
Written by Craig Roberts and produced by Adrian Bate, Eternal Beauty tells the story of Jane (Sally Hawkins), the middle sibling of three sisters who, after being dumped at the altar at a very young age, has a breakdown that sees her spiraling into a paranoid schizophrenic world, where love (both real and imagined) and […]
Omega sets sail!
A watch firm and an America’s Cup yachting team from the same country sound like quite a winning combination and that is exactly what happened to Ernesto Bertarelli’s Team Alinghi, sailing out of the Société Nautique de Genève back in 2003. Switzerland was the first land-locked nation to hold the Auld Mug (as the world’s […]
Dukes Hotel London
There is no better time to plan a trip to the heart of historic and cultural London than now, with international travel restricted and a minimal amount of tourists in town. Dukes Hotel is perfectly situated in Mayfair surrounded by some of London’s most historic landmarks, restaurants and shops, among them Fortnum & Mason, The […]
The new Jaeger LeCoultre 101
Despite its vintage, the Jaeger LeCoultre 101 watch that is produced today is much the same as it was when first made but for a few adjustments along the way. The 101 harks back to a bygone age where etiquette decreed that a lady was only to wear a watch during the daytime, not for […]
El Vermú De Tast
The Mallorca based catering company Tast Culinary Projects has surprised the public of the eponymous Balearic island with the opening of El Vermú de Tast, a classic “vermutería” located in the centre of the beautiful village of Soller, in Mallorca offering traditional tapas, dishes and novelty cocktails all with the best of local produce . […]
Leaders for a coming decade of crises
I heard the emergency alarm before anyone else as I was the first to find him sprawled across the fire. A sudden stroke had reduced this tall, proud man to a crumpled mess and as his daughter – who is also my mother- froze, I pushed the telephone into her hands, tended his burns and […]
Handmade
Everyday most of us enter a new environment, a shop, an office or the home of a friend. These spaces have been designed and built, filled with artefacts, machines and decorative accessories. On the most part, we focus on the people we are with and don’t think of the individuals who have helped construct the […]
