Designs on Travel
A snapshot of the evolution of emotive design that has tempted and encouraged our travel aspirations. Beyond the inherent desire for many of us to travel – and keep travelling – there comes a time when we wonder where next? Since travel opened up beyond the Grand Tour of the highly privileged, tour operators, countries and cities have vied for our custom by the use of emotive images, smart catch phrases and colourful advertising. In...
Art & About – Part 3. Three Dimensional Art
A pictorial, three part, worldwide appreciation of outdoor visual treats. Part 3. 3D Art This final part of our three-part snapshot of outdoor art, deals with three-dimensional art that you’ll find in your travels around the world. We’ve excluded sculptures of famous people that are there to commemorate the lives of the great and good, as these are considered and commissioned pieces that simply mark the life of an...
Art & About – Part 2. Street Art
A pictorial, three part, worldwide appreciation of outdoor visual treats. Part 2. Street Art Part 1 of this brief three part overview of outdoor art, dealt with graffiti. The difference between graffiti and Street Art, we believe, is the criterion of ‘permission’, in that the owner of the property has sanctioned the surface they own for the purposes of art or promotion. It’s a fine line sometimes as to whether that...
Art & About – Part 1. Graffiti
A pictorial, three part, worldwide appreciation of outdoor visual treats. In this three part overview we give a very limited and brief insight into the wonderful art forms that can be found right in front of you in virtually every country of the world – bringing an intimate view of social and cultural trends, opinion, unrest and passions that would otherwise be missed when viewing the more conventional hot-spots in the countries...
Luxury Art Deco Island
Fancy being marooned on an island surrounded by shining seas and golden beaches that mysteriously drew Agatha Christie to its shores, took the drama out of life for Noel Coward and yet still offers all the luxury and pizzazz associated with the roaring twenties? Burgh Island could be for you – and amazingly it’s not in the Caribbean but in Devon, England. We donned our glad rags, popped the champagne, dined, partied and danced ‘til...
Go a-head for a luxury investment
Ever fancied immortalising your own or someone else’s likeness in bronze – well what about this? We were invited to be the guest speakers to open the Shards Art Exhibition at the Bournemouth International Centre. It’s the third year of the exhibition, which runs throughout August of each year and invites artists from all over the country to submit work for display. The theme this year was ‘Endangered Species’, hence presumably why...
