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Chinese Kingfisher Ornaments – Beauty and Decoration
Drawn by their iridescent beauty, many races and peoples have used feathers as adornment or accessory to decorate themselves using entire feathers from the bird
Trees @ Melbourne – Nature’s Fortress and Humankind’s Friend
Trees are awesome, they are nature’s fortress and humankind’s friend, and here at Melbourne they are valued and conserved especially one Golden Elm at Sth Yarra
On a Camellia, in a garden or in a grove in Australia
Swedish Naturalist Carl von Linne or, Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778) was the founder of the modern scientific nomenclature for plants and animals. He established the name Camellia in the system he devised for classifying all plants in the west. His Systema Naturae of 1735 was where Moravian Jesuit botanist George Joseph Kamel, or Camellus, name was recorded.
Windows, Opening an Eye to the World – Casements are Classic
The design origins of casement windows are based in European classical architecture and usually had detailed curved stone headers, deep overhanging classical cornices and, the French essential, projecting attic rooms.
Art of Living Well – Antiquity to a Residence Australia
Today our art of living well has evolved since antiquity in Europe to a residence in Australia through a diverse and special mix of peoples and their cultures.
Modernism – Innovating Design Styles in the 20th Century
Modernism is a term the art and design community of our contemporary western world has adopted to describe a diverse range of architectural and interior decorative styles, as well as applied and graphic arts created between approximately 1880 and 1940 on an international scale.
The Borgias are Back with a Vengeance – Season 2 on Showtime
Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. However that’s not how the head of the Borgia family Pope Alexander VI (1431-1503) aka Rodrigo Borgia (Jeremy Irons) saw it. ‘Vengeance is ours’ he says. He is referring to the [...]
Society and Culture – Codes of Behaviour and Manners Matter
Modern manners, codes of behaviour, decorum and rules of etiquette matter in every culture and society – they illuminate and respect the human experience.
Vale Chuck, Your End was a New Beginning – Can’t we Buy More
Beware: Spoilers below “Chuck, if you ever want to save the world again, you know where I am” said General Beckman to Chuck, Sarah and Colonel Casey as she said farewell to her favourite spy crew. Vale Chuck. After five series CHUCK (2007 – 2012) that masterful spy born courtesy of the Intersect, reports our [...]
My Interiors – Design Convenient and Pleasant to the Eye
There are no boundaries and no rules really when it comes to designing interiors, only guidelines that should always remain both flexible and practical. And, if it is for yourself, then its decoration must come from the heart.
Preserving Liberty and Law during the Enlightenment @ London
Our understanding of the meaning of both liberty and justice is at the very heart of the establishment of today’s modern western culture.
Amazing Grace – William Wilberforce and the Hymn to Freedom
Amazing Grace is a movie about British idealist William Wilberforce (1759-1833) who single handed ended the British transatlantic slave trade. Welsh Actor Ioan Gruffudd as Wilberforce sang the hymn to freedom to inspire others to join him
The Romance of the Middle Ages @the Bodleian Library
The Romance of the Middle Ages’ an exhibition commencing January 28, 2012 at Oxford in England showcases manuscripts and early printed books containing romantic literature.
National Year Reading 2012 – Creating the Future of Learning
Do you Love2Read? 2012 in Australia is the National Year of Reading. Ensuring that Australians become a nation that loves to read is what it is all about. It’s also about boosting the literacy of children and adults, especially on a screen.
Marion Hume – In Style @ Mossgreen Gallery and The Ivy Room
The InForum Group, run by two key lifestyle Sydney based professional industry figures Jenny Garber and Fiona Coogan, will present special guest speaker fashion and travel journalist Marion Hume as the business community gets back into gear to start the 2012 year.
Chinoiserie – Pavilions, Porcelains and Passionate Pursuits
By the eighteenth century in Europe and England all things Chinese had assumed incredible proportions as fashionable society sought to transmit their ideas about the magical land of Cathay through a multiplicity of imagery.
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