Mary Quant – Lights, Camera, Action, Mini Skirts are Back!
Mini Skirts are Back, is the message sent; Londoners are celebrating the fashionable style of one of their own rock star sixties designers Mary Quant at the V&A
Design Styles
Royal College of Physicians, London – Modern or Brutal Icon?
Royal College of Physicians, London presents an evening challenging guests to decide if their landmark building is designed in the Modernist or Brutalist style?
AA&ADA Antique Fair, Sydney, 2018 – Art, Design and Living
Members of the Australian Antique & Art Dealers Association August 16 – 19 in Sydney will present a wondrous array of art, antiques, design & jewellery for sale
The Sydney Fair 2018 – Modernism: The New World of The Past
The Sydney Fair is a vintage wonderland designed to sell, held annually since 2013, the Royal Hall of Industries, Sydney Showground, Moore Park region of Sydney
Vale Hubert Givenchy – Style Shaping Fashion for All Time
Vale Hubert Givenchy, whose clothes and costumes for his clients, particularly Audrey Hepburn, confirmed he understood what constituted beauty of form and style
Phantom Thread: Bespoke Style – Immutable, Impossible Chic
Phantom Thread stars incomparable multi-award winning actor Daniel Day-Lewis in his final, perhaps most masterful role, as Reynolds Woodcock a London couturier
Architectural Design Styles Test – Play Our Interactive Quiz
Play our Interactive Quiz and expand your knowledge of the evolution of architectural design styles, including Palladian, Gothic, Neoclassic, Baroque and more
Give the Gift of Good Cheer, Sweet Words & Love at Christmas
Celebrate the festive season with good cheer, it’s time for sweet words, to be thankful to your host and resolve to give joy to others, to praise and enjoy life
Provence: Country Style Pt 1 – C’est Magnifique
Provence: your distinctive country style is admired world wide created through the people, the produce of the land and practical considerations of everyday life
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
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?
18th Century ‘Compleat’ Gentlemen – Rulers of Taste & Style
Pursuing a passion for art and architecture in England in the 18th Century spawned new trades and expanded enjoyment for those living a leisure filled lifestyle
Love Jewellery – Regency to Revival Pt 3
The Christian understanding of perfect love, making no demands and seeking nothing for itself is revealed in many of the people in Jane Austen’s life and novels
Australia, a Multicultural Land of Paradoxes & Opportunities
Australia is a multicultural land of opportunity, one whose layers of diversity are constantly re-interpreted distilled and decanted into something quite unique