Lightolier is a company that manufactures and sells a wide array of lighting fixtures. It was founded in 1904 by Bernhard Blitzer under the name of New York Gas and Appliance Co. When electric lighting started to be more widely accepted, ...
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Made exclusively from carbon-fiber and aluminum, Audi will be putting on display a lightweight chair which has been developed on same lines as the Audi R18 racecar. This lightweight Audi chair, weighing just 5 pounds is on display at Design ...
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Route de l’Horlogerie – Genève: an overview of the Swiss watchmaking panorama Geneva’s watchmaking history can be discovered through a unique Geneva Watch Tour. Punctuated by around 50 monobrand boutiques and ...
Yahoo has appointed leading Google executive Marissa Mayer as chief executive officer, ending months of speculation. The surprise move comes just over a week after interim Yahoo CEO Ross Levinsohn helped end a patent battle with Facebook ...
In the world of fine arts, we are seeing a progression towards the use of more unconventional materials to create thought provoking pieces. Where the brush, the pencil, or the chisel was the commanding tool of art in the past, artists are ...
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Starwood Capital private investment group has unveiled Baccarat Hotels & Residences luxury hotel brand. The brand has been created to fill a niche in the very top of the upscale hotel market and bears the revered name of the world-renowned ...
, Wassily Kandinsky and Constantin Brancusi led the November 7 Evening Sale of Impressionist & Modern Art at Christie's New York, realizing a grand total of $204,800,000 (£129,024,000/ €159,744,000). Of the 69 works offered by ...
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October 5th, 2012 is the Global James Bond Day, marking the 50th anniversary of the James Bond film franchise.Designer Tom Ford dresses Daniel Craig, Johnny Depp, Tom Hanks, Ryan Gosling and Will Smith, among many many others. For Tom ...
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Speech by the Governor Sichuan, hometown of Deng Xiaoping, is famed for the' heavenly land'. In the upper reaches of Yangtze River, the province lies in the hinterland of Southwest China, covering an area of 485,000 sq km with a total ...
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The Luxury Collection Hotels & Resorts unveiled the much-anticipated Twelve at Hengshan on the renowned tree-lined Hengshan Road, one of the most historic and fashionable areas of Shanghai. This newly built residential-style urban retreat ...
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New York's Museum of Modern Art introduces the MoMA Art Lab app for the Apple iPad, the Museum's first art-making app. Inspired by MoMA Art Labs, a series of interactive spaces at the Museum where kids and adults can engage with art through ...
Sang Liangshu was once a typical Chinese housewife. That was before being inspired by her family's intense interest in art. She created a unique paper-cut art, which she called "Xiao Sang Paper-cut." Her style of paper-cut preserves ...
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Clay figurine is one of antiquated folk arts in China. The clay is taken as raw material and manually kneaded into a figurine and the sculptures are mainly the characters and animals. This kind of art can date back to the Neolithic Period. ...
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Chinese folk art is a visual art created by ordinary people to meet ordinary social needs. The definition of folk art is relative to the definition of the art of imperial palace, the art of aristocrats, and the art of scholars ...
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Lapis lazuli is an age-old material in China, having a history of over 2400 years. It was used exclusively by the imperial family. As there were extremely high requirements on the hierarchy of the users, this material was hardly seen in the ...
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