Personalized monograms have been a tradition for many luxury brands since late XIXth century. Discover if your initials are on some luxury vintage object from the past… Find out more on www.LuxuryVintage.net
From the colonial world particularly eccentric objects have always come, countersigned by different materials and different methods of productions in comparison to the most classical European models. Besides the forms of art autochthonous particular success they have klindled the so-called “animalia”: trophies, fangs, horns, skins and all the consequential objects from the animal world left [...]
Luxury Vintage Riviera from flywheel impresacreativa on Vimeo. On November 26th Bernardini Luxury Vintage, hosting jewelry designer Michela Bruni Reichlin, transformed the neighbourhood of Corso Magenta, next to Leonardo Da Vinci’s Last Supper and the Bramante’s Cupola, in a real vintage Casinò. Fifty years after the closure of the most famous Casinò on the island [...]
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Here is an extract published from a recommended book review I’ve found on web There was a time when luxury was available only to the rarefied and aristocratic world of old money and royalty. Luxury wasn’t simply a product, it was a lifestyle, one that denoted a history of tradition, superior quality and offered a pampered [...]
Millennia before St. Tropez, Palm Beach or Beverly Hills even existed, Baia was the very definition of luxury: Cicero, Caligula and Nero all had holiday homes here, and Cleopatra herself was a guest of Julius Caesar, one of the town’s most prominent homeowners, on the Ides of March. On the Bay of Pozzuoli west of Naples, this hotspot of [...]
France has Lalique, Belgium has Val St. Lambert – and America has Steuben: crafters of crystal for those with a taste for refined luxury. Steuben drafted artist Beth Lipman to create a limited edition of pieces for a Still Life – with crystal blown and carved into shapes of various fruit, to be laid out [...]
Luxe American retailer Neiman Marcus has just released its annual Christmas catalogue for the man who wants everything – and the woman who wants it, too. Amid the limited edition BMWs ($160,000), luxury destination packages, the authentic Guinness pubs built-to-order ($250,000) and the thoroughbred racing stables ($10,000,000), one potential gift is definitely on our wish [...]
“Fashion fades. Style is eternal.” YSLHe was a fashion designer by trade, but Yves Saint Laurent’s enduring legacy is that of gender equalizer, silhouette soothsayer, child prodigy, and inventor of the ready-to-wear category. Saint Laurent, who died in his Paris home at age 71 on Sunday, forever changed the modern woman’s wardrobe with the tuxedo [...]
Prints from Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Can series hang in Kanye’s kitchen. A vintage Louis Vuitton trunk from the 1870s sits underneath.