When purchasing watches, no one is questioned with how to wear watches, actually. This appears to be logical and rational. Nevertheless, the simplest things happen to be complicated sometimes. Everything is made from details and details sometimes mean far more than the whole. People who really wander how to wear watches properly exist and they are really concerned in this issue.
The Cuban leader Fidel Castro, a revolutionary Che Gevara, politicians Winston Churchill and Bill Clinton, writers Somerset Maugham and Mark Twain, the actor and the political figure Arnold Schwarzenegger – these names are well-known and these figures are best known to the world for their political, social, literary and other achievements. Moreover, the abovementioned people highly esteem cigar smoking and, thus, they come as people who own the greatest number of tools and accessories so requisite for this leisurely process and among others there are cigar lighters.
In the light of a variety and availability of glass items, glass ware is still appreciated by plenty people, especially when it comes to cut glass. The cut glass produces a long, lingering and musical tune when you put your finger at the cut-glass edge. So, in Japan the craftsmen make unique musical instruments. A crystal violin, completely transparent, is estimated for fifty thousand USD. Crystal glass tableware is not so much expensive though it is able to produce the charming, unique and so brittle music providing it is properly cared.
Paul Gauguin
was a leading Post-Impressionist painter. The majority of Post-Impressionist
painters lived and died in poverty, and Gauguin was not an exception. When he was
living in Tahiti, the place of his best works, Gauguin had to work with the
paint diluted with the paste from the breadfruit tree roots. The painter was then
living in the thatched hat. And nowadays, his paintings of Tahiti period are deemed
as world art treasures, and they are hunted and chased by collectors. His works
are auctioned for fortune all the time.
Mark Chagall has been recognized nearly in every part of
the world. Chagall was born to a Jewish family in Vitebsk, Belarus.
In 1920 Chagall moved to Moscow, and two year later
he left for Berlin and afterward to Paris where he spent
almost all the rest of his life.
Christie's is
known as the first solid auction house for fine art established by the ex-naval
officer James Christie Senior. First auction was supervised by James Christie Senior
in 1766 in
London and since that time it is one of the acknowledged auctions in the world.
Shortly after James purchased a special premise with the hall to hold auctions
where the former naval officer learned how to sale. Christie's Auction House
reached the top of its flourishing in 1848 after the French Revolution during
the boom of ‘grand sales'. He is thought to make the trade with antique and fine
art a real art of trade and this auction House is famous for the most
well-known and grandiose auctions of the XVIII and XIX centuries.
The founder
of such a popular and the most demanded at the world art auctions trend in
impressionist painting is the famous French painter Claude Oscar Monet. In his painting
‘Le dejeuner sur l'herbe' created in 1866 Monet first realized his novateur
vision of the world breaking all adopted traditions of academic painting. Monet
set the main accents to reproduce a passing impression with a photograph
precision, and painting the effect of light and plain air with broken color and
rapid brushstrokes, in what later came to be known as Impressionism.
The life of
Pablo Picasso is the rare example of the generous fortune that allowed a great popularity
to the talented painter and an opportunity to become a founder of such a
revolutionary style in the art as cubism, yet to earn millions. As a child Pablo
painted up the legs of pigeons in the pictures of his father - the painter José
Ruiz, and he always shocked the public with the marvelous technique of
painting.
They say that
genius and insanity is two sides of one and the same medal. Unluckily, this
statement is openly associated with life and work of the great Dutch painter
Vincent Van Gogh. Prior to coming to the path of a painter, Van Gogh had to go
a complicated life path from a stockbroker at the style and trade firm in Hague
to a preacher in Belgium where he protected rights of miners and came to
conflict with church authorities.
There was
opening of an exhibition of 30 young artists on April 15, 1874 in the Boulevard des
Capucines, Paris, who were united with the idea to reproduce in their pictures
short emotional effects our life is rich in. This significant exhibition officially
initiated a new style in the art called impressionism. Specialist of this genre
aspired to not only create topics taken from the everyday life but with photographic
accuracy portray flying impression from an individual though trivial eyewink
that will become a plot for another picture in a while.
Antique weapons
are acquired to serve for various purposes, as a decorative element of the styled
interior, unique present to investments or for creation of major collection. Criteria
to collect antique weaponry depend on welfare and taste of a human being and it
is hard to say what exact kind of weaponry wins high esteem.
We may hear
of a numerous Auction Houses at the modern market of antiques and each one has
its magnificent history background, its own peculiarities. For example,
Kunsthaus Lempertz Auction House situated in Cologne
is one of the ancient representatives of family auction business in the world
and the most ancient House in Germany.
A student or a
business man, shirts are found in the wardrobe of any men living a social life.
Anyone following fashion tendencies owns a pair of slim fit shirts for any
occasions to distinguish against other common shirts. This kind of shirts is
less trendy for mature men since the design of shirts requires fit and athletic
torso which is rarely available with men over 45. Men’s slim fit shirts are
good to fit with any suits, in loose manner, tightly fit in trousers.
Lingerie for women was just the plain underwear until the 20th century when it became the mean self-expression, as the subject of esthetic admiration. A piece of lingerie seen in between the women wear looked quite shocking to be shame and no one thought of designing luxury items based on lingerie, leaving alone works of art. Today every woman dreams of having a pair, or even more, of luxury and high quality lingerie to associate with sexuality, sensibility and attraction with male.
Lancome brand is appreciated globally as one of the most recognizable manufacturer of perfume and body care cosmetic products. Lancome is the brand to boast with the assortment of scents appraised by lots of women from all over the world. That is not the triumph for a day. That is the niche the brand keeps as the manufacturer of classic fragrances. So, Tresor launched in the 50s, the legendary and so romantic Poeme, and delicate Attraction that is demanded beyond the time. In the year 2008 that Lancome house presented another fragrance, Lancome Magnifique.
Florence Nightingale, also known as Elizabeth Arden globally, became the real revolution-maker in the cosmetic industry. The brand Elizabeth Arden estabvlished by Graham, was the one of the first companies that produced natural and high quality cosmetic products, indeed, acknowledged by the royal persons. Moreover, the decorative cosmetics are at last accepted in the political society thanks to the brand founder.
