Three cheers for Francesco Vezzoli for bringing the colour, theatre and heat of Italy into Nahmad Project’s gallery space in the heart of cold grey autumnal London. Goodbye to the ubiquitous white walls and stone, concrete or timber floors of most art galleries. For three months, works by Vezzoli and Giorgio de Chirico will be […]
The baroque style of art and architecture conjures up visions of Bavarian churches with elaborate decoration soaring upwards to skies full of clouds and cherubs. At first glance, it therefore seems strange to house galleries of European baroque art and design at the bottom of a staircase. Think however of a staircase leading down to […]
Stefan Contini established his London gallery at 105 New Bond Street in Mayfair, London, in 2014, following his other galleries centred in Venice, Italy. As is characteristic of many ground floor units in Mayfair, the space is long and narrow. Unlike many commercial galleries, which have simple staircases in steel with concrete or timber treads, […]
While the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Crafts Council pose the question “What is luxury” in their current exhibition, the new display of the Waddesdon Bequest at the British Museum goes some way to defining it. The Waddesdon Bequest is a collection of almost 300 objects of exquisite craftsmanship left to the Museum in […]
"The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul."
(Thomas Moore)
To be an architect means having a wide range of interests - architecture, art and creativity in all its variety of forms, sustainability, science and innovation. The greatest interest is often where these different worlds overlap and collide - that is when something imaginative often occurs that pushes us all forward to another place
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