Royal Collection Trust: The Stuarts – Art, Power & Splendour
Celebrating the role of art in court culture in the reign of the Stuart Kings, two exhibitions in London, Charles I: King and Collector, Charles II: Art & Power
Design History & Decorative Arts
What Do You Know? Play our Quiz: Design & Decorative Arts
What do you know about design history and the decorative arts and the evolution of taste from antiquity to the present day
Chair Styles – What Do You Know? Play Our Interactive Quiz
Play our interactive Quiz; find out how much you know about Chairs, which historically from Rome to Renaissance, Baroque to Bauhaus are about more than seating
TDRF Adelaide – Passion for Portraits, Paintings & Porcelain
The David Roche Foundation House Museum and Gallery collection in Adelaide, showcases its owner’s passionate pursuit of fine portraits, paintings and porcelains
NGV 2016 Architecture Commission: [email protected]’s Pink Car Wash!
The NGV 2016 Architecture Commission Winner [email protected] STUDIO Architects vision for their hot pink ‘Car Wash’ entry is on display at NGV International until April 2017
MPavilion – Giving Birth to Beauty of Form & Creative Ideas
Indian architect Bijoy Jain of Studio Mumbai will design the purpose built MPavilion for 2016 in Melbourne, the largest bamboo structure ever built in Australia
Labassa – National Trust in Victoria, Discover Your Heritage
Plan ahead for autumn and winter at the National Trust in Victoria’s house Labassa where a program of events aims to expand knowledge of our heritage in design
The Block Triple Threat – Darling Site Ends, TV Show Begins
The Block, built to be modern when cream brick and stained timber was the rage, has been transformed with asymmetrical style, grey plaster and manor black
The Culture Concept – Art Design & Style, Free Video Series
The Culture Concept Circle videos survey the progress of architecture, gardens, interiors, paintings, sculpture & objet d’art FREE – Antiquity to Renaissance
The Block Triple Threat – Royal Favourites take on New Faces
The Block Triple Threat in Darling Street South Yarra, a darling place to live, has four teams competing as they renovate old apartments into stylish residences
Salomon de Caus Innovator – Gardens Baroque to Rococo Spirit
17th century garden design reflected formality until Salomon de Caus invented fountains, giving impetus to the idea of the fantastic and bizarre giving pleasure
Books and on Being a Bibliophile – Heartbreak and Happiness
Being a bibliophile is not only about heartbreak, but also happiness too and spending a rainy day reading in bed or on the sofa is certainly my idea of luxury
Le Corbusier – Charles-Edouard Jeanneret’s Modernist Style
Early in the twentieth century Swiss born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret adopted his grandfather’s name Le Corbusier presenting a new audacious style of architecture
Diane de Poitiers – Moon Mistress and Woman of Influence
Wearing black and white was a statement of style for the mistress of Henri II of France Diane de Poitiers who adopted Goddess Diana’s crescent moon as a symbol
Fashion – Is It More Than a Frock asks Carolyn McDowall?
Costume encompasses all that we wear and today reflects a society in which privacy has been stripped bare – so what is fashion, is it more than a frock?
Garden Art of Japan – Profound Happiness, Beauty and Bonsai
The garden art of Japan devotee can approach his/her ultimate destiny calmly with great dignity, glorying in the beauty and majesty of the creation and creator