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The Incomparable Eileen Gray
It’s sad to say, but during her lifetime, Eileen Gray, who later became known as the pioneer of the modern movement, did not receive the recognition that she so well deserved. It is true that she experienced some level of success from her involvement with the Union des Artistes Modernes which had some well-known members like Robert Mallet-Steven, who was the founder. Right: Cover photo from 1stDibs
Satellite Mirror by Eileen GrayOther icons from the Irish furniture designer includes the Bibendum chair, which originated from the character created by Michelin to sell tyres.
Members also included, Francis Jourdain, Marcel Gascoin, Charlotte Perriand, and Jean Prouvé. As an architect, Eileen designed and furnished herself a new home, Tempe à Pailla, outside Menton, France. That building is an icon of Modernist architecture, and the design was a great example of form meets function. Good for her, since she lived and worked there.
Photo: Eileen Gray Transat Chair, and Architectural Cabinet. Other icons from the Irish furniture designer includes the Bibendum chair, which originated from the character created by Michelin to sell tyres.
Photo: The Brick Screen by Eileen Gray is one of MOMA’s permanent collection, via Daily Tonic.
This chair is comfortable as well as beautiful, and is able to fit in with a number of decorating styles.
Photo: The nonconformist chair. Her E1027 table can be spotted at many homes, businesses and hotels worldwide. Having said all that, let’s not forget her pièce de résistance, the “Dragons” armchair which was made between 1917-1919.
Above photo: Muriel Newman in 2003, wearing a satin jacket by Geoffrey Beene and seated in the Bibendum chair by Eileen Gray, poses in front of a painting by Clyfford Still, via Chicago Magazine. In February 2009, it sold at Christie’s France for a record-breaking $28.3 million.
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Ozwald Boateng: The King of Savile Row
“Ozwald Boateng has been awarded with an OBE and a client list which includes names like Barack Obama, David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Robbie Williams, Daniel Day Lewis and Jamie Foxx. He’s the most talked about couturier on Savile Row. At 6ft 4in and as lean as a race horse, he is a walking advertisement for his clothes.”
Cindy-Lou Dale
For heads of states, celebrities and media moguls, Ozwald Boateng is the beginning and the end when it comes for them to remain fashionable, while they stay relevant in the public eye. No surprise there. Ozwald is so brilliant at combining Savile Row style with very trendy colored cloths, some of them silk and wool combinations.
That is why he’s also well known as “the peacock of Savile Row”. The exuberant fabric colors he uses in his ready-to-wear collections and bespoke suits are exquisite! Savile Row is a world famous shopping street in Mayfair, London. In fact, the term bespoke is understood to have originated in Savile Row when cloth for a suit was said to “be spoken for” by individual customers. In the past, public figures who frequented this “très chic” street include Cary Grant, Winston Churchill, and Napoleon III. This post is the launch of my Gentleman’s Corner Series and I wouldn’t dream of starting with no one other than the King of Savile Row himself. Now if only he would design a suit or two for yours truly – gratis. Hah!Interesting Fact: Did you know that Savile Row was named after a woman? The subject in question was Lady Dorothy Savile, wife of the 3rd Earl of Burlington.Ozwald Boatend
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Autumn/Winter 2011 – 2012 Collection
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30 Savile RowPhotos property of Ozwald BoatengAll rights reservedRecommended ReadingThis book came out in 2011, and is viewed in our house as the “Favored One”, from Amazon.com.NOTE: Please notify us directly, if you believe that certain images on this post are alleged to infringe upon the copyrights of others, according to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Thank you.
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The Weekender: The Winter Antiques Show & The Bard
The Importance of Being FashionableA couple of days before I went to a Press Preview at the Bard Graduate Center, I had no idea who Jane Harding was. Although the actress was not so well known here in the United States, back in France, she was all the rage. It is said that during her lifetime, Ms. Harding was one of the most photographed women in the world. Enter Staging Fashion, an “absolutely required” exhibition for fashionistas, and those who are so enthused by the celebrity culture.Woman’s Hat by Joseph G. Darlington and Co. Philadelphia, circa 1908 – 10.Straw, silk flowers and leaves.
The show is mostly about how celebrities like Jane Harding, Lily Elsie, and Billie Burke dominated the fashion scene back in the early 20th Century. They managed to do so by one important medium – Photography. Carefully staged photographs represented a vital self-promotional tool by which the actresses asserted their status as Fashion Arbiters. Sound very much like our current culture right? Back then, the images by Harding emphasized an image of an attractive, elegantly dressed, and poised woman, who offered herself for admiration and at the same time, scrutiny. A close collaboration between photographers and actors was crucial back then as it is today. The promotional interest between the media to its public is phenomenal and is ever increasing. In this sophisticated exhibition, Fashion and Theater came together beautifully to form a brilliant and lasting marriage.January 18 – April 8, 2012The Bard Graduate Center18 West 86th StreetNew York City
Left: Reutlinger Studio (French, 1850-1937). Postcard of Jane Hading in La Pompadour, ca. 1901. Hand-colored photograph with glitter. Private collection. Photographed by Bruce White. Right: Foulsham & Banfield (English, 1906–1920). Postcard of Lily Elsie in The Merry Widow, ca. 1907. Private collection.
Photographed by Bruce White.
Advertisement for Rogers & Thompson’s Soirée Silk featuring Billie Burke. Photograph by Sarony Studio. From The Theatre (September 1916): 165. Private collection. Photographed by Bruce White.
Jane Hading: Paul Boyer. Jane Hading in Plus que Reine. Cover of Le Théatre (May 1899). Private collection.Photographed by Bruce White.
Postcard of the Théâtre du Vaudeville and the Boulevard des Italiens, ca. 1905. Hand-colored photograph. Private collection. Photographed by Bruce WhiteAll photos courtesy of the Bard Graduate Institute.© All Rights ReservedThe Winter Antiques Show 2012The illustrious Winter Antiques Show opens today at the Park Avenue Armory for the 58th Year in a row. This year, be prepared to get reacquainted with old dealers and meet new ones. Jonathan Boos is displaying an impressive collection of Alexander Calder’s standing mobiles.Originally gifted by the artist to a family who cared for his mother in the 1950’s, these pieces were kept there for over 50 years and now are ready to embrace a new home. Highlights from the show included a rare and important African-American Pictographic Plantation desk, ca. 1870, from Madison, Mississippi. This particular desk is attributed to “Willie” Howard, a favored slave at Kirkwood Plantation, owned by pre-Civil War Governor McWillie. Art Deco dealer, Maison Gerard, have several new acquisitions from Leuleu. They are exquisite and offer themselves as perfect additions to any art deco collector. Another exciting dealer to look for is Keshishian. Mr. Eddy Keshishian, a carpet dealer from London, is exhibiting a jaw-dropping Art Deco carpet made for the Maharajah of Indores palace. This magnificent piece demonstrates the widespread appeal of Art Deco design, which was originated in France and quickly spread as far as India. Go inside the show, by visiting us on Facebook, for more photographs. The Winter Antiques Show benefits the East Side House Settlement which was founded in 1891 to help immigrants and lower income families on the East Side of Manhattan. In 1962, it moved to the South Bronx where it serves 8,000 residents annually within one of America’s poorest congressional districts, the Mott Haven section of the South Bronx.
My Fair LadiesQuintessential Victorian fairies from the 19th Century
Clockwise: From Nicholas Grindley Works of Art, Ltd. A ceremonial fan of circular leaf shape made of three boards crudely joined together and carved on the face with radiating ribs with an incurved lip at the top. Thai, 18th – 19th Century. Egyptian gilded and painted cartonnage mummy mask. Ptolemaic Period, c. 4th – 3rd century BC, from Rupert Wace Ancient Art. Foreground – One of three remarkable series of Alexander Calder standing mobiles (untitled) from Jonathan BoosPhotos property of High End Weekly™ -
Americana Week: January 17 – 29, 2012
Your Guide to Americana WeekMonday, January 16
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New American Wing Galleries for Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts Opens
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York CitySotheby’s Preview
Important Americana: Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, Porcelain, Prints and Carpets
1334 York AvenueTuesday, January 17
Hayes Fine Arts Building
The Modern Art of Antique QuiltsFisher Heritage Specialty305 East 61st StreetNew York CityBohemian National Hall
New York Ceramics Fair
Opening Night
5 p.m. until 9 p.m.
321 East 73rd Street
New York CityChristie’s
Preview of Important American Furniture and Folk Art
Rockefeller Center
New York CityChristie’s
Preview of Chinese Export Art
Rockefeller Center
New York CityBonham’s
Preview of Fine American and European Furniture and Decorative Arts
580 Madison Avenue
New York CityKeno Auctions
Auction: Important Americana, Paintings, Furniture and Decorative Arts
48 E 84th StreetNew York CitySotheby’sPreview: Americana: Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, Porcelain, Prints and Carpets1334 York AvenueNew York CityHayes Fine Arts Building
The Modern Art of Antique QuiltsA Fisher Heritage Specialty305 East 61st Street
New York CityWednesday, January 18
Metro Show Opening Night7 p.m. until 9 p.m.125 West 18th Street
New York CityChristie’s
Preview: Important American Furniture and Folk ArtRockefeller Center
New York CityChristie’s
Preview: Chinese Export ArtRockefeller CenterNew York CityBonham’s
Auction: The Mapping and Discovery of America580 Madison AvenueNew York CityBonham’sPreview: Fine American and European Furniture and Decorative Arts580 Madison Avenue
New York CityLecture: Searching for Pots: 40+ Years Above and Below the Ground12 Noon321 East 73rd StreetNew York CityLecture: Getting the Blues: Cobalt Ornament on Tin-Glazed Earthenware from Around the World2 p.m.321 East 73rd Street
New York CityLecture: The ImpressionistsDishes: Ceramics in the Florence Griswold House and the Odd Way They Were Collected4 p.m.321 East 73rd Street
New York CitySotheby’s
Preview: Important Americana: Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, Porcelain, Prints and Carpets1334 York AvenueNew York CityAmerican Folk Art Museum
Music: 2 p.m. until 3 p.m.Performed by jazz guitarist Bill WurtzelHayes Fine Arts Building
Fisher Heritage SpecialtyShow: The Modern Art of Antique Quilts305 East 61st Street
New York CityThursday, January 19
Winter Antiques ShowOpening Night Party5 p.m. until 9 p.m.Park Avenue Armory643 Park Avenue @ 67th Street
New York CityChristie’s
Auction: Silver AuctionRockefeller Center
New York CitySotheby’sAuction: Important Americana: Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, Porcelain, Prints and Carpets1334 York Avenue
New York CityChristie’s
Auction: Important American Furniture and Folk ArtRockefeller Center
New York CityChristie’s
Preview: Chinese Export ArtRockefeller Center
New York CityBonham’sAuction: Fine American and European Furniture and Decorative Arts580 Madison AvenueNew York CityLecture: Going Beyond Chromium Green: Overglaze Enamel Formulations and the Dating of Factory and Hausmaler-Decorated Meissen Ware12 noon321 East 73rd Street
New York CityNew York Ceramics Fair
Lecture: American Blues: Printed Pottery Celebrating a New Nation2 p.m.321 East 73rd StreetNew York CitySotheby’s
Preview: Important Americana: Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, Porcelain, Prints and Carpets1334 York Avenue
New York CityHayes Fine Arts Building
A Fisher Heritage SpecialtyThe Modern Art of Antique QuiltsShow: at 305 East 61st Street
New York City
Friday, January 20Christie’s
Auction: Important American Furniture and Folk ArtRockefeller Center
New York CityChristie’s
Preview: ‘Chinese Export ArtRockefeller Center
New York CitySotheby’sAuction: Important Americana: Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, Porcelain, Prints and Carpets1334 York Avenue
New York CityStella Shows10 a.m. until 7 p.m.69th Regiment ArmoryLexington Avenue at 26th Street
New York CityHayes Fine Arts Building
A Fisher Heritage SpecialtyThe Modern Art of Antique Quilts305 East 61st StreetNew York CitySaturday, January 21
Christie’sPreview: Chinese Export ArtRockefeller Center
New York CityNew York Ceramics Fair
Lecture: From a Mere Lump of Clay: Harry Potter and Ceramic Technology12 noon321 East 73rd Street
New York CityNew York Ceramics Fair
Lecture: Hot Plates: Every Dish Tells a Story2 p.m.321 East 73rd Street
New York CityNew York Ceramics Fair
Lecture: A Variegated History: Tortoiseshell Earthenware in Colonial America4 p.m.321 East 73rd StreetNew York CityAntiques at the Armory
Show: 10 a.m. until 7 p.m.69th Regiment ArmoryLexington Avenue at 26th Street
New York CityShow: 9 a.m. until 5 p.m.
Pier 92
New York CitySunday, January 22
Christie’sPreview: Chinese Export ArtRockefeller Center
New York CityAntiques at the Armory
Show: 11 a.m. until 5 p.m.69th Regiment ArmoryLexington Avenue at 26th Street
New York CityAmericana and Antiques at the Pier
Show: 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.Pier 92
New York CityMonday, January 23The Modern Art of Antique QuiltsShow: A Fisher Heritage SpecialtyHayes Fine Arts Building305 East 61st StreetNew York CityChristie’sAuction: Chinese Export Art
Rockefeller CenterNew York City
Life size Nubian Goat Sculpture on WheelsPhoto courtesy of 1stDibsTuesday, January 24 – Saturday, February 25Folk Tales: Bringing Folk Art Home Exhibition & SaleThe New York Design Center
200 Lexington AvenueNew York CityChristie’sAuction: The Peter H B Frelinghuysen Jr Collection of Chinese Export PorcelainRockefeller Center
New York CityThe Modern Art of Antique Quilts
Show: A Fisher Heritage SpecialtyHayes Fine Arts Building305 East 61st Street
New York CityWednesday, January 25
National Academy Museum and SchoolExhibit: The Annual: 20121083 Fifth Avenue
New York CityMusic: 2 p.m. until 3 p.m.Performed by jazz guitarist Bill WurtzelThe Modern Art of Antique QuiltsShow: A Fisher Heritage SpecialtyHayes Fine Arts Building305 East 61st Street
New York CityThursday, January 26
New York Historical Society Homes of Early New YorkLecture: Birth of an American Style6:30 p.m.
170 Central Park WestNew York City
For tickets inquiries, contact: East Side House Settlement | 718-292-7392Winter Antiques Show Young Collector’s Night
Park Avenue Armory643 Park Avenue @ 67th StreetShow: 7 p.m. until 9 p.m.New York CityOutsider Art Fair
Preview7 West 34th StreetNew York CityFriday, January 27
National Academy Museum and School The AnnualExhibit: 20121083 Fifth Avenue
New York CityThe Modern Art of Antique QuiltsFisher Heritage SpecialtyShow: at Hayes Fine Arts Building305 East 61st Street
New York CitySaturday, January 28, 29National Academy Museum and SchoolThe Annual: 2012 Exhibit1083 Fifth AvenueBringing Home A LegendA handful of rare and historical objects will go on view, during Americana Week in New York City. This time honored tradition kicked off yesterday at Keno Auctions with a gallery talk entitled American Still Life Painting in the 19th Century by Doctor William H. Gerdts.
This lecture marked the beginning of a series of high profile art fairs, auctions, and showroom events. Americana Week is in fact two weeks of sales, viewings and symposium devoted to three centuries of American craftsmanship in all its forms, including important furniture, decorative arts, and of course, folk art. Young and old collectors will become transfixed by an impressive mix of the finest museum quality art, and antiques. Yours truly will make the rounds to most of these events, shopping for clients, and gathering materials for you lovely readers out there. I’m looking forward to a couple of impressive lectures and auctions at Christie’s as well as the January 24th event at 1stDibs entitled: Folk Tales – Bringing Folk Art Home.
Life Guards from Just Folk(Michael and Gael Mendelsohn Collection)
Iconic FiguresCover photo: Marionettes, also from Just Folk
Extremely Rare 34 Star FlagUsed as a national parade flag during the Civil War period it features four different size stars on a blue canton, Jeff R. Bridgman American AntiquesAbove photos courtesy of 1stDibsAll right reservedThis will be an important selling exhibition of rare and extraordinary examples of American Folk Art and Ephemera curated by five of the country’s leading Americana specialists, and 1stdibs dealers including Jeff R. Bridgman American Antiques, Just Folk and Judith and James Milne. Ames Gallery and A Bird in Hand will be displaying their antiques as well. Folk Tales is a group show of independent dealers from across the United States who will highlight collectible quilts, weathervanes, flags, outsider and tramp art, game boards, original-surface painted furniture, trade signs and one-of-a-kind pieces, all of which offer a fascinating view into the American decorative past. This show will include a broad range of items priced from the affordable (under-$500) to pique the interest of the budding collector to museum-quality to satisfy the ardent enthusiast ($100,000).January 24 – February 25, 2012
1stDibs at New York Design Center200 Lexington Avenue, 10th Floor@ 33rd StreetNew York CityFree and Open to the Public
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Dream Hotel Downtown
Wait a minute. Was that Jack Dorsey at the bar with a group of what’s look like his buddies from Silicon Valley? And guess who just “downloaded” her presence, accompanied by a small army of bodyguards? Yes, it’s the pink Friday superstar, Nicki Minaj. Warning: Checking in at the Dream Hotel Downtown may cause some serious celebrity whiplash.Not that I mind that at all. I like visiting the Dream for those frivolous reasons, but I also like its cutting edge surreal and contemporary design. Discovering whimsical design details in a hotel brings me some relief, because the space suddenly doesn’t have this “decorated” feel to it. The design of this hotel manages to pull this off, as it offers their guests wistful decor combining traditional and modern elements. The loft-inspired guestrooms and suites are something to behold. How do you describe modern elegance, cosmopolitan glamor, mixed with top-notch service? Simple, the answer is DREAM.
Guestrooms
The main lobby area
Pool Terrace SuitePhoto credit: Phillip Ennis PhotographyCourtesy of the Dream Hotel Downtown -
The Weekender: Caudalíe Spa at The Plaza Hotel
The Star TreatmentLocated inside an iconic building tucked right next to Central Park is this 8,000 square foot destination spa that goes by the name of Caudalíe Vinothérapie® Spa. This exotic haven situated in the 4th floor of The Plaza Hotel encompasses the signature design elements of Caudalíe’s worldwide spas which represent total warmth, tranquility, combined with elegance.The decor is all about precious cherry wood, a mix of natural materials, smooth dark stones and symbolic vine sculptures. The overall result is a space that is intimate, modern, with tremendous ambiance. Guests pad around this extensive property while enjoying services like, honey & wine wrap, red vine barrel bath, crushed cabernet scrub, fresh grape massage and a menu of their world-famous facials with grape and active vine patents, along with Caudalíe’s products that purify, firm, energize and illuminate their skins. Over the holidays, my friends Donald and his wife visited this spa, and indulged their senses with these signature treatments:- Refreshing massage under a Vichy shower
- Energy® wrap
- Slimming wrap
- Caudalie massage* for two: divine duo!
- Pregnancy message
- Caudalie grand facial treatment
- “Premier Cru” treatment.
Plaza VineHusband and wife team, Mathilde and Bertrand Thomas, revolutionized the spa world in 1999 when they introduced the first-ever Vinothérapie® Spa in the heart of the Châteaux Smith Haut Lafitte vineyard (Bordeaux, France), harnessing the untapped, restorative power of grapes and grapevine polyphenols. Caudalíe is rated the second best spa in the world by Travel & Leisure and “Hot Spot” by Condé Nast Traveler, it is a world-renowned destination with treatments and techniques developed exclusively for their spas – a second in the Rioja region of Spain whose property was designed by acclaimed architect Frank Gehry, followed by Les Etangs de Corot in Versailles.For Mathilde, The Plaza is special in many ways, “I want for this first Caudalie Vinothérapie Spa in the US to offer New Yorkers a sample of French life and our “Art of the Vine” in the heart of this always moving city.Caudalíe SpaThe Plaza HotelOne West 58th Street, Floor 4New York, NY 10019Tel: 212 265 3182Hours: Open 7 days a week, 11am – 6pm
Cover photo: Plaza Vichy Shower
French Paradox Lounge
An 800 sq ft. Wine Lounge stocked with wines from Château Smith Haut Lafitte, the family estate and vineyard of Caudalíe founder, Mathilde Thomas. The Lounge features an imposing wine cellar of wood and bissazza tile, with a floor of slate grey tiles interspersed with elegant rugs and comfortable chairs and couches.Photos courtesy of Caudalíe
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The Caudalíe Spa: NYC’s Best Kept Secret?
The Star Treatment
Located inside an iconic building tucked right next to Central Park is this 8,000 square foot destination spa that goes by the name of Caudalíe Vinothérapie® Spa. This exotic haven in the 4th floor of The Plaza Hotel encompasses the signature design elements of Caudalíe’s worldwide spas which represent total warmth, tranquility, combined with elegance.
The decor is all about precious cherry wood, a mix of natural materials, smooth dark stones and symbolic vine sculptures. The overall result is a space that is intimate, modern, with tremendous ambiance. Guests pad around this extensive property while enjoying services like, honey & wine wrap, red vine barrel bath, crushed Cabernet scrub, fresh grape massage and a menu of their world-famous facials with grape and active vine patents, along with Caudalíe‘s products that purify, firm, energize and illuminate their skins. Over the holidays, my friends Donald and his wife visited this spa, and indulged their senses with these signature treatments:
Refreshing massage under a Vichy shower
Energy® wrap
Slimming wrap
Caudalie massage* for two: divine duo!
Pregnancy message
Caudalie grand facial treatment
“Premier Cru” treatment.
Husband and wife team, Mathilde and Bertrand Thomas, revolutionized the spa world in 1999 when they introduced the first-ever Vinothérapie® Spa in the heart of the Châteaux Smith Haut Lafitte vineyard (Bordeaux, France), harnessing the untapped, restorative power of grapes and grapevine polyphenols.
Caudalíe is rated the second best spa in the world by Travel & Leisure and “Hot Spot” by Condé Nast Traveler, it is a world-renowned destination with treatments and techniques developed exclusively for their spas – a second in the Rioja region of Spain whose property was designed by acclaimed architect Frank Gehry, followed by Les Etangs de Corot in Versailles.
For Mathilde, The Plaza is special in many ways, “I want for this first Caudalie Vinothérapie Spa in the US to offer New Yorkers a sample of French life and our “Art of the Vine” in the heart of this always moving city.
Below: An 800 square feet. Wine Lounge stocked with wines from Château Smith Haut Lafitte, the family estate and vineyard of Caudalíe founder, Mathilde Thomas.
The Lounge features an imposing wine cellar of wood and bissazza tile, with a floor of slate grey tiles interspersed with elegant rugs and comfortable chairs and couches.
Photos courtesy of Caudalíe
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Fashion Ideas for The Alps
Mariah Carey Aspen is a long way from its past as a mining camp in the Colorado Silver Boom. Nowadays it is THE destination as a ski resort and an upscale tourist center.My first trip to this nature paradise was in the early 2000s when I was working at an investment bank, in New York City.
When given the choice between vacationing at a beach front property or in the middle of the mountains, the choice is simple – the hills are alive. VSP
Aspen is a mixture of high-end luxury estates and condos intermixed with equally impressive shopping stores – especially on Hunter Street.
Aspen Fashion Week
March 11-14, 2012
Mariah Carey The company arranged for the managing partners to stay at The Little Nell, and accommodation for the little people was at The Ritz Carlton down in Prospector Road.
Lead photo via WHAT PIXIES WEAR Fashion Blog
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Vintage Posters from Aspen
My latest acquisitions are these “vintage” posters from various online sites. Not too sure whether I’ll be able to use them in our current place, but surely I can find room for them in another house? Preferably one in the middle of the mountains…
Aspen Winter Jazz Festival poster from Jazz Deluxe Vintage PostersTop: Vintage Aspen Posters from All PostersNOTE: Please notify us directly, if you believe that certain images on this post are alleged to infringe upon the copyrights of others, according to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Thank you. -
Aspen Fashion
Aspen is a long way from its past as a mining camp in the Colorado Silver Boom. Nowadays it is THE destination as a ski resort and an upscale tourist center. Aspen is a mixture of high-end luxury estates and condos intermixed with equally impressive shopping stores – especially on Hunter Street. My first trip to this nature paradise was in the early 2000s when I was working at an investment bank, in New York City. The company arranged for the managing partners to stay at The Little Nell, and accommodations for the little people was at The Ritz Carlton down in Prospector Road. Let’s just say, I didn’t complain. Although the hotel was lovely and all that, what really impressed me was the mountains, and the sheer beauty of my surroundings. This place tugged at my heart then as it does today. And the reason is simple – the beautiful mountains. When given the choice between vacationing at a beach front property or in the middle of the mountains… The hills come calling – every time.
Haute SkiClockwise: Chanel signature skis, Quilted nylon moon boot from Tecnica, and Dolce and Gabana 2011 ski wear collection.
March 11-14, 2012Fair Price
Clockwise: Yes, knitwear can look sexy. This fair isle jumper dress from Direct Aska is inspired from the D&G Ski bunny collection. Sheepskin lined platform boot from Topshop,the right fit for every budget. Techno, and stylish. Ski cape from Napapijri.Maria Carey: Aspen Chic
Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey, Aspen 2011
Mariah Carey outside the Dior South Galena Street, Downtown AspenNOTE: Please notify us directly, if you believe that certain images on this post are alleged to infringe upon the copyrights of others, according to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Thank you.You May Also Like
Jeff Koons Plate Launch and Signing at Bernardaud
