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Laurence Graff is sometimes called the king of diamonds, sometimes the new Harry Winston. This self-educated, self-made East End Londoner has bought and sold some of the most famous stones in the world and his clientele includes royalty from Riyadh to Hollywood.
The Supermarine Stranraer was a 1930s British flying boat designed and built by Supermarine Aviation Works which marked the end of biplane flying-boat development for the Royal Air Force.
Gino Bartali was the most renowned Italian cyclist before the Second World War, having won the Giro d’Italia twice (in 1936 and 1937) and the Tour de France in 1938.
Wusheng‘s photographic portfolio of the Yellow Mountains will strike Western viewers at first glance as an appealing fusion of Ansel Adams and ink wash scrolls. Shot mostly in black and white, these images of dark craggy peaks floating in swathes of white mist combine stunning grandeur with a subtlety that rewards meditative viewing.
A laser harp is an electronic musical instrument consisting of several laser beams to be blocked, in analogy with the plucking of the strings of a harp, in order to produce sounds.
Lisa Fonssagrives was a fashion model credited by some as the first supermodel.
‘London‘ is a unique film work about a unique city written and directed by architect Patrick Keiller. It concerns a series of journeys made by an unseen narrator and his companion ‘Robinson’ to discover the ‘problem of London’ during the period immediately before and after the 1992 General Election. There is a wealth of detail pertaining to literature, history, architecture and a variety of locales and a highly original style with ironic wit.
80*81 is a retrovisionary research by Christopher Roth and Georg Diez. Roth and Diez explore in this year-long quest with the collaboration of artists, philosophers, writers, movie directors, actors, astrologists the central question: What happened? In 1980, when Ronald Reagan was elected, Pope John Paul II met Lech Walesa, Andy Warhol had dinnner with William Burroughs at the Chelsea Hotel and John Galliano was a Blitz Kid. And what happened 1981, when the hostages were released by Ajatollah Khomeini and Aids surfaced? Those were years that changed the way the world thought, felt, looked, worked, reacted. And in the eleven volumes that form the 80*81 Book Collection this change is restaged. Each month one volume will be published, each with a distinct timeline of the events of 1980 and 1981, with images, interviews, memories. The first one contains interviews with the Slowenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek, the artist Robert Longo and the film maker Eric Mitchell, the Blitz Kids as seen by Derek Ridgers, the Green Party and Warhol plus Beuys plus Burroughs. The second will have interviews with the last President of Iran Abdol Hassan Bani Sadr, with the film maker Paul Schrader and the composer Giorgio Moroder. The third will feature the Chinese-American artist Mei-Lun Xue, the writer Don DeLillo and the French comic revolutionaries Pierre Christin and Enki Bilal.
In 1977 Pietro Mattioli took portraits in ZurichÂ’s first Punk and New Wave nightclub. Their reduced and austere aesthetics followed a simple formula: the sitters were photographed with a flashlight in front of a neutral background, a fast and immediate look that was as outrageously sensationalist as it was coolly narcissistic. Mattioli created portraits that still look as fresh as if they were taken last night.
For decades the work of Swiss photographer Karlheinz Weinberger was shrouded in obscurity. In the 1950s he published numerous homoerotic photographs under the pseudonym “Jim” in Der Kreis (The Circle), the legendary international gay magazine that featured highly sophisticated photographs by, among others, George Platt Lynes and Herbert List. Weinberger was one of the first queer photographers to show his often working-class models posing in their everyday surroundings.
The artist and collector Andreas Züst (1947–2000) was not only a legendary figure in the Swiss and European art field but also a dedicated book lover. The mixture of his associative interest in Weather, Geology, Astronomy, Physics, Botany, Art history, Antropology, Polar expeditions, Photography, Painting, Music, Kitsch, UFOs, the Hell’s Angels, Psychedelic experiences and many more indicates a structure of our culture.
In 1980, the landmark series Cosmos premiered on public television. Since then, it is estimated that more than a billion people around the planet have seen it. Cosmos chronicles the evolution of the planet and efforts to find our place in the universe. Each of the 13 episodes focuses on a specific aspect of the nature of life, consciousness, the universe and time.
Berton Roueché was a medical writer who wrote for The New Yorker magazine for almost fifty years.
A distinguished Soviet psychologist’s study of a young man who was discovered to have a literally limitless memory and eventually became a professional mnemonist. Experiments and interviews over the years showed that his memory was based on synesthesia (turning sounds into vivid visual imagery), that he could forget anything only by an act of will, that he solved problems in a peculiar crablike fashion that worked, and that he was handicapped intellectually because he could not make discriminations, and because every abstraction and idea immediately dissolved into an image for him.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1 May 1852 – 17 October 1934) was a Spanish histologist, physician, pathologist and Nobel laureate. His pioneering investigations of the microscopic structure of the brain were so original and influential that he is considered by many to be the greatest neuroscientist of all time. His skills as an artist allowed him to make hundreds of drawings still used for educational purposes today.
Yoshiro Nakamatsu is a Japanese inventor claiming to hold the world record for number of inventions with over 3,000, including “PyonPyon” spring shoes and the basic technology for the floppy disk, the CD, the DVD, the digital watch, CinemaScope, armchair “Cerebrex”, sauce pump, and the taxicab meter.
Brownian motion (named after the Scottish botanist Robert Brown) is the seemingly random movement of particles suspended in a fluid (i.e. a liquid such as water or air) or the mathematical model used to describe such random movements, often called a particle theory. The mathematical model of Brownian motion has several real-world applications. An often quoted example is stock market fluctuations. However, movements in share prices may arise due to unforeseen events which do not repeat themselves, and physical and economic phenomena are not comparable.
The Codex Atlanticus (Atlantic Codex) is a twelve-volume, bound set of drawings and writings by Leonardo da Vinci, the largest such set; its name indicates its atlas-like breadth. It comprises 1,119 pages dating from 1478 to 1519, the contents covering a great variety of subjects, from flight to weaponry to musical instruments and from mathematics to botany.
The Dream Pool Essays was an extensive book written by the polymath Chinese scientist and statesman Shen Kuo (1031-1095) by 1088 AD, during the Song Dynasty (960-1279) of China. Although Shen was previously a highly renowned government official and military general, he compiled this enormous written work while virtually isolated on his lavish garden estate near modern-day Zhenjiang, Jiangsu province.
Undulatus asperatus (or alternately, asperatus) is a rare, newly recognized cloud formation, that was proposed in 2009 as the first cloud formation added since cirrus intortus in 1951 to the International Cloud Atlas. Now, Van Gogh skies live!
The Sümela Monastery stands at the foot of a steep cliff facing the Altındere valley in the region of Maçka in Trabzon Province, Turkey. Founded in the year 386 AD during the reign of the Emperor Theodosius I (375 – 395), legend has it that two priests undertook the founding of the monastery on the site after having discovered a miraculous icon of the Virgin Mary in a cave on the mountain.
Hands down, Balenciaga does the best perfume ads of the season. Amazing sensibility.
A Polish man has woken up from a 19-year coma to find the Communist party no longer in power and food no longer rationed, Polish TV reports.
Rube Goldberg was an American cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer, and inventor. Goldberg is best known for a series of popular cartoons he created depicting complex devices that perform simple tasks in indirect, convoluted ways – now known as Rube Goldberg machines.
