A villa by architect Andrea Palladio was a place where the owners could feel happy, secure and content, which is after all, what most of us still require and aspire to, a place where one can cultivate the head, heart, body and the soul.

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Aphrodite, Adonis, Apollo, Artemis…are about ennoblement of form in Ancient Greece. Its visual remains, its architecture, ceramics, and most especially the statues of male and female bodies are for many aesthetically beautiful. But how can so many things be beautiful in Ancient Greece when they are entirely dissimilar? Is beauty and good relative to our [...]

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Art Deco was the perfect expression of the salons at Paris during the 20’s to the 30’s. It embraced every area of design and the decorative arts including architecture, interiors, furniture, jewellery, painting and graphics, bookbinding, costume, glass and ceramics. Art Deco was about integrating contemporary living with art, and turning life into art, against those consciously working for the undoing of art and its purpose was enjoyment.

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The New Apple iPhone 4 comes into the public domain through the genius of a whole team of talented technology developers, but the simplicity and sleek design is that of one man, award winning English industrial designer Jonathon Ive CBE, who has headed the Industrial Design team responsible for most of the company’s significant hardware products since Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997. Ive joins the ranks of another of the world’s greatest industrial designers of the C20, Englishman Christopher Dresser, who was one of the gurus at the core of the advent of Modernism in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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