Articles in the Museum Category
Posted in Estate, Museum, Property on 28 March 2008
Art lovers, here is an invitation for you! Reserve yourself in 2010 for making a visit to Bentonville, Arkansas. Why? To adore the unveiling of Crystal Bridges, the art museum designed and erected by Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton. Photographers you too book your schedule as it is an interesting opportunity to ink a neat deal.
Walton is all focused on creating this national art museum devoted to American artists from the majestic period to the current. In 2005, Walton outshined by over bidding a couple of East Coast museums paying a wealthy amount for the 1849 Asher B. Durand work “Kindred Spirits.” While there is a lot raising eyebrows at this art work but then we others appreciating the project both for the inspiring personality of Walton’s anthology and for her choice of installing the masterpiece in here against the pleasing locations of prominent art museums.
Architect Moshe Safdie have very elegantly arranged this glass and light wood structure around two ponds at the center of the complex, spread over by bridges. The structure is set on about 100 acres of Ozarks forest, bestowed by the Walton family. Visitors will pursue a track throughout the woods to a hummock that overlooks the pavilions. And right from the knoll, glass elevators guide visitors to a patio with a glass foyer offering a view of the water.
The museum will offer 34,000 sq feet of exposition space counting cafe, performance hall, and library and research center. It is being said that crystal bridges would surely witness the presence of almost 250,000 visitors a year, once it’s launched.
Posted in Estate, Museum, Property on 26 December 2007
Touted as one of the most ambitious building projects globally, Crystal Island to be positioned in Moscow is anticipated to cost $4 billion and would be erected in next 5 years. Spread over 2.5million sq mts, the individual floor region of this giant edifice would be four times the size of Pentagon positioned in Washington DC. It claims to be the self-contained city within city and is 450m tall. It features a blend of structures including museums, theatres and cinemas.
It is being planned that the island would house gamut of civilizing, demonstration and concert services offering 3000 hotel rooms and 900 serviced apartments followed by offices and shops. Each of these accommodation is been calculated to preserve a vibrant and vigorous community sphere all through the day. Active corral panels built into the structural casing allows sunshine to infiltrate deep into the core of the scheme and can be restricted to adjust the interior setting – clogged in winter for spare warmth and unlocked in summer to permit natural aeration.
Gallery: World’s Biggest Building to be Erected in Moscow
Images:Skyscrapercity
Posted in Designer, Museum on 25 December 2007
The building above is a Yoda’s creation crafted through RP machine. Architect François Roche of a french architecture firm R&Sie has lately won the contest to build an innovative “museum of ice”- an art museum and alpine ice research station in Évolène, Switzerland. François is going to build it with an ogre 5-axis CNC machine in Lausanne that can work a 5-meter by 40-meter area, like heaping up mooch of bread.
The proposed mechanized process is quite enthralling and it would be installed on-site, slice by slice. Around 1000 locally harvested trees are anticipated to be used as a raw material for this installation. Trees are then turned into plywood in fragments of 2.5 meters (w) X 7 meters (L). These perpendicular “segments,” each 90 centimeters deep serves as an installed system holding perfunctory services within their depth. Presently, it is just a computerized developed model.
Via Treehugger
Posted in Aircraft, Alcohol, Antique, Apparels, Auctions, Buildings, Camera, Designer, Diamond, Drinks, Fashion, Gadgets, Gold, Handbags, Jewelry, Luxury, Luxury Brands, Luxury Car, Mobile Phone, Museum, Music, Necklace, Paintings, Precious Stone, Property, Ring, Shopping, Speakers, Spirits, Statue, Swarovski, USB Drives, Vodka, Watch, Wine, Worlds Most Expensive, Yacht, ipod on 15 November 2007
Someone has rightly said the identity of the successful person gets recognized when he is asked for autograph rather than signature. In Blogosphere, the dialysis occurs when a blog gets mature from a label of a baby blog to the pedestal of a majestic presence. Right on the heels of my expectations, I have managed to crack 500 posts (on EliteChoice) within less than a year (with first post on 9 January).
Ideally I should feature myself with a goblet of champagne but I take the opportunity to introduce my internal spirit to you. This two-legged beast is my mirror image who knows the right direction and cherish past with a present energy and looks forward to ink bigger deals in life (in terms of value as size doesn’t make a difference).
Besides my journalistic profession, I was committed to my bloggers’ desk throughout this year and never intended to beat big sharks like Luxist, LuxuryLaunches, UberGizmo, ShinyShiny, Bornrich, UberReview, Blavish and others but am glad that I earned the deserving recognition from them. Also, a three-month-young network with Elite Fashion Blog Bazaar Community is quite satisfying.
It was an exciting journey to chronicle the world of elite products and break the news on the board, respecting the prerequisite of a journalist and curiosity of my faithful readers. Gluing to my very first post that outlined the purpose of my blog, I am happy to set various laurels in that direction and am geared up to offer an unbeatable common-sense perspective on important topics/ products and events of the day.
I am glad to share with you that the onset of 2008 would mark our first anniversary with a lot more unique features on the cards. And yah from today I am all set to offer next 500 posts coming thick and fast.
This Time Three Cheers To Me And My Love:)
Posted in Designer, Diamond, Exhibitions, Jewelry, Luxury, Museum, Necklace, Pearl, Precious Stone, Shoe on 24 October 2007
National Museum of Natural History in Paris has recently opened an exhibition to celebrate the collection of historical pearls. Known as “Perles, une histoire naturelle” (Pearls a natural history), the exhibition would run from 25 October to 10 March 2008. The highlights of the exhibition are:
A mussel shell of the Biwa Lake festooned with cultured pearls blister.
“The Marie-Antoinette pearls” Necklace:
Featured below is a brooch offered by Prince Albert to Queen Victoria (Great-Britain 1843) on their heir 3rd wedding anniversary. The brooch is decorated with pearls, amethysts, garnet, chrysoberyls.
The “Kuweit pearl” with a rose shaped diamond
The biggest soft water pearl “Hope Pearl” with diamonds, emeralds, sapphires, rubis, enamel and gold:
Boots in nacre, deer and goat hair
I doubt if they are for sale.
Posted in Car, Designer, Display, Luxury, Luxury Brands, Luxury Car, Museum on 21 October 2007
Lately unveiled piece of architecture in Munich has created a buzz but its worthiness is under scanning. Also, this is seen as another highlighting feature in Munich besides ongoing October fest. BMW is busy celebrating its gala opening their BMW World (BMW Welt). The theatrical structural design of the BMW World is supported by two curved glass cones.
Located near the vicinity of the headquarters of the German luxury carmaker BMW in the southern German city of Munich, the “BMW World” is gleaming with style. Publicly, the doors of the BMW Welt got opened yesterday only (21 October).
Spread over 73,000-square-meter, this shrine is designed by Viennese architects Coop Himmelb(l)au and is catching eyeballs due to its pouncing roof and twisted-glass tower. It seems to offer a sleek testimony to BMW’s early-20th-century origins as an aircraft-engine maker. With an aim to convey the emotions of the brand, the building known as “car delivery and experience center,” is the latest creation in the array of existing showrooms, cathedrals and concert halls modeled till date. It is gaining the reputation of being the luxury symbol in the history of brand.
Why luxury residences for the upcoming models?
With the increasing number of foreign-based luxury car-makers entering into the market, designing an elite experience for the brands is seen as their USP.
Your much-awaited car comes on a glass elevator and is placed on a rotating platform. It takes almost 40-mins to introduce your new car before you can drive it out of the BMW World onto the gushy roads. The new BMW edifice also offers bistros, shops, fairs and space for events. According to the architects, the building is sustainable through innovative climatic concepts which result in an estimated 30% energy savings.
The new building will be frequently used for the delivery of cars and for other exhibitions. Initially, the estimated price placed by BMW for its new project was “€100 million,” but its structural engineers on the project, Frankfurt-based Bollinger and Grohmann claims the building is worth €250 million. Apparently, the BMW welt paid around 200 million Euros ($286,258,482) for this revolutionary car minster and is available for public for counted 11 hours i.e. from 9am to 8pm.
Designed by Viennese architects Delugan Meissl, the next trend settling creation after this would be the Porsche Museum scheduled to open in 2008. Various players who have recognized the worth of the architectural designs are Volkswagen, with Autostadt with its successor being the Europa-Park theme park near Freiburg.
About 200,000 people a year visit the complex, but BMW is expecting that to quadruple with the new building, with about 45,000 visitors taking home a car.Going against the thought of the picking up the car from the factory kills the delivery cost, the BMW creation charges additional €475 as a fee. With this it is very clear that only elite buyers are invited who have he heart to pay the fee also.
Jump further for more pics:
Via WSJ
Posted in Buildings, Designer, Hotels, Luxury, Museum on 18 October 2007
Days back when the news of Jail turning into a Hotel was unusual and invited eyeballs, today the very mention of Hotel Everland, one-room hotel has overshadowed its significance. Offering picturesque views, the hotel is parked on the roof of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris from November 2007-December 2008. This inventive creation is the result of the witty efforts delivered by Swiss artist-duo Sabina Lang and Daniel Baumann. The hotel is equipped with a single-room along with a king-size bed with attached bathroom and lounge.
This pricey single-room cost equivalent to three-night and four-day stay in any ordianary hotel. To your much-amaze, the per night charges of the hotel are 333 euros ($475) during the week, 444 euros ($634) at weekends. But to compensate the luxury deal or rather a lame excuse to yourself, you can always steal the golden embroidered bath towels as a memento.
This acts as more of an installed masterpiece offering 1970s-style glamour, artistic cachet and an elegant scenic beauty of the Eiffel Tower. This multi-functional edifice works both as a museum exhibit and also as a room offering you a chivalrous night-stay.
Historical Background:
Developed for the Swiss National Exhibition Expo.02, Hotel Everland was first located on the lake of Yverdon, followed by the mobile pavilion factory roof at L/B’s studio. After that from June 2006 till August 2007 Hotel Everland was placed on the roof of the Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig, Germany. During the daytime, the room is a medium to rejoice and entertaining medium for the museum visitors. So, if you have the heart to feel this luxury then rush now as the booking is complete for the coming two-months.
How about a virtual stroll into the room without any cost? Jump further to enjoy one with artists Sabina Lang (L) and Daniel Baumann walking across the room:
Posted in Art, Auctions, Designer, Diamond, Luxury, Museum, Products on 16 September 2007
“Blue Diamond,” an 8ft (2.5m) wood stainless steel sculpture is a part of a series of diverse tinted statuettes carved by US artist Jeff Koons. Made up of refined steel and chromium, this diamond sculpture would be a part of the “Post-war and contemporary art” sale scheduled at Christie’s auction house on 13 November.
It is expected to raise $12mn when it would be set for auction in November at Christie’s auction house. Right there, Elizabeth Taylor portrait by Andy Warhol is expected to fetch $25m. Out of the four versions of the diamond, the red, green and pink sculptures are in confidential custody and a yellow on is presently in under the process of fabrication.
If Blue Diamond manages to retain its guesstimate, it would be reaching its two-fold mark against its most expensive sales at his auction of Michael Jackson’s sculpture along with his pet monkey Bubbles that generated a sales of $5.6mn in 2001.
“20th-Century Design”
Around 26 September, Christie’s International block in New York would be populated with the medley of elegant antediluvian and modern furnishings estimated to generate sales of $3 million.
This private sale labeled as “An Important Private Collection of Mid- 20th Century Design,” organized by an unidentified collector aims at offering affordable products.
A real record breaking auction was of Warhol’s Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I) that earned a a bulky sum of $71.7mn to the artist in the beginning of this year.
Posted in Buildings, Exhibitions, Luxury, Museum on 17 July 2007
Crystal Bridges Art Museum, a lavish and luxurious den for the art connoisseurs that will open up in a couple of years is envisioned as a premier national art institution dedicated to American art and artists. Under construction in Bentonville, Ark, and funded by billionaire Alice Walton, the $50 million the museum complex will encompass approximately 100,000 square feet of gallery suitable for large receptions , areas for outdoor concerts and public events, library, meeting, and office space, a 250-seat indoor auditorium.
The enchanting architectural marvel is the brainchild of World renowned architect Moshe Safdie. The one of its kind museum will home permanent collection of signature works from American artists along with galleries dedicated to regional art and artists including Native American art.
Via: JustLuxe
