A squatter in London has sold his house for $2 mill and will use the money to start up a magazine to rival ‘Hello’.It will be called ‘Goodbye’ and feature dead celebrities and thehouses they lived in.
The Pucci Fondation has opened in Florence.
In Turkey stay at the fabulous Hillside Su hotel http://www.hillside.com.tr (click on English)
In London check out the exhibition at the London design Museum ‘Designing Modern life” and Marc Newsom’s most important pieces.
The “Eyes, lies and Illusions” exhibition is on at The Hayward Gallery in London so check out http://www.hayward.org.uk/tricks/index.html and then click on tricks! Fun !
In Bali please stay at Christina Ong’s new hotel called Uma Ubud. http://www.uma.como.bz .
Go to the exhibition ‘Massive change : The Future of Global Design’ ( a big call!) at the Vancouver Art Gallery http://www.massivechange.com Anyone interested in sociological changes and design should have a look.
Want to buy a house in Umbria italy? Buy or rent one of these divine villas with a maid, cook and concierge http://www.reschio.com/enter.html
Grace Leo Andrieu, the design diva behind Paris’s hotel Montalembert and the Cotton House on Mustique, has opened the 55-room Bairro Alto in Lisbon. http://www.glahotels.com/accueil.htm
Phillipe Starck has designed a mouse pad for Microsoft .
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which campaigns against the use of fur, is turning its attention to Australian-grown merino wool. The group has kicked off a boycott of the Australian wool, saying a process called mulesing is unnecessarily cruel. It is used by Australian farmers to prevent sheep from being infested by a type of Australian blowfly, the Lucilla cuprina ( commonly known as dags).
Bob Colacello, the Vanity Fair special correspondent, has spent the last six years writing “Ronnie & Nancy: Their Path to the White House, 1911-1980.”
Alison Jackson, the award-winning English photographer famous for her voyeuristic, celebrity portraits and short TV films featuring look-alikes of Marilyn Monroe breast-feeding; Queen Elizabeth on the toilet with her underpants around her knees, and Elton John undergoing colonic irrigation, is taking on U.S. politics. “Election Year 2004,” which opens at the Julie Saul Gallery in New York, features such images as a President Bush employing Tony Blair, posed on all fours, as a horse mount, or using posters of Osama bin Laden and Michael Moore for target practice. She recently took a double of the British soccer player David Beckham to Tokyo for a shoot, and the crowds went wild, even after she revealed the man was a look-alike. “They didn’t care. They still wanted to sit on his lap and kiss him. In Madrid, they chased him down the street.”wwd
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