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...Artist Jeff Clapp turns discarded aluminum oxygen canisters from Mt. Everest into decorative bells for $2,400 a pop. The leftover aluminum shavings make a nice tree ornament that someone might actually buy (the "Everest" balls are $48 for four at Eco-Artware.com). Or save your money and hang items from around the house-Barbie's accessories, Pez dispensers-using hemp twine...
...period, the Christmas card itself is purchased at the store, but the newsletter is no longer handwritten. In modern America the holiday newsletter is printed on the family’s DeskJet and usually has a festive border around it. But don’t be fooled by this ornament, the letter’s content is a veritable popcorn chain of falsehoods, all strung together with conventional and informal prose...
...other is called Le Petit Lieutenant. It stars Nathalie Baye, who has been an ornament of the French cinema since the 1970s, but is no one's idea of an international hottie. It is directed and co-written by a guy you've never heard of, Xavier Beauvois, and it is, at least superficially, a policier of the kind the French are particularly good at - a lot of cops in leather jackets, cigarettes dangling from their lips, making weary wisecracks as they go about their grim and often tedious business...
...with such U.S.-sourced gems as Montana sapphires and Mississippi River pearls, and favored American naturalism over European historicism. As John Loring, design director of Tiffany's since 1979, explains, "Our unofficial motto is that Mother Nature is the best designer." From a delicate diamond-and-sapphire dragonfly hair ornament (circa 1895) to an Art Deco platinum-and-diamond necklace that invokes the Manhattan skyline (circa 1930), the exhibition illustrates how Tiffany's has achieved international renown for truly American craftsmanship. Holly Golightly would have loved it. gilbert-collection.org.uk
...such U.S.-sourced gems as Montana sapphires and Mississippi river pearls, and favored American naturalism over European historicism. As John Loring, design director of Tiffany's since 1979, explains, "Our unofficial motto is that Mother Nature is the best designer." From a delicate diamond-and-sapphire dragon-fly hair ornament (circa 1895) to an Art Deco platinum-and-diamond necklace that invokes the Manhattan skyline (circa 1930), the exhibition illustrates how Tiffany's has achieved international renown for truly American craftsmanship. Holly Golightly would have loved it. gilbert-collection.org.uk