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.
Wealthy persons are mostly known for their fortune only. However, despite they make billions, these people possess some personal features that attract people when estimating them. While Warren shovels up money, he has to do with quite conflicting image he created: he is known to be the proved miser and at the same time he privately donates huge amounts for charity purposes.
Nikolay Konstantinovich Roerich is one of the impressive figures in the
world of Russian symbolism and modern style, this is the legend that made the
paints and brushes serve for him and who won the hearts of people from all over
the world. Roerich became the famous traveler being a wonderful painter, archeologist,
writer and the philosopher mystic reflected in his paintings and the future
thereof. The inheritance issue by Roerich is the actual topic to discuss for 20
years already and is likely to last forever since a plenty of people concerned
are not willing to talk in public. And one of the disturbing questions is what
happened to the famous paintings and who owns them.
All the events proceeded in the end of the '80s when Svyatoslav Nikolaevich
Roerich was about to move the artistic property of the family to the USSR from India.
The painter had all the reasons not to trust to the government of the country
where the part of the heritance of great painters was ransacked when the works
were brought to Moscow
in 1958 by Yuriy, the elder brother of the famous family of painters. The second
crucial factor was the global restructuring in the country which appeared to be
the treat for the legendary collections. And it was in 1990, when Svyatoslav granted
the artistic property of the his family to the public organization, the Soviet
Fund by Roerich, created in 1991 renamed to the International Center by Roerich
by his initiative. Though, those 288 paintings by Nikolay and Svyatoslav Roerich,
brought by the painter's son to the 100-year anniversary of his legendary
father and left it under the trust of the Ministry of Cultural Affairs of the
USSR, and then, later on in the year 1990 he included the part of it into his
will in favor of the International Center by Roerich and which are not granted
yet to the Public Museum named after N.K. Roerich.
And people frequently wonder where these paintings are actually and whether
they subsist in this world. And the real
mysticism works here since no one verification inspection meets the requirements
of impartiality, while there is a real mess in official documents. Thus, there are
two certificates registered under the number 54, as though executed at the State
Museum of Eastern Nations Art on the same date, as to March 12, 1993, that
reflect one and the same occasion, in particular, the transfer of 282 paintings
by Roerich from the temporary storage to the permanent place.
Which is exciting, both documents are authentic and every single one
appeared in the court proceedings. Another interesting fact is that the paintings
change their names in a
mysterious way. In particular, the painting called «Tibet»
by Nikolay Roerich turned into «Monastery» in 1937, and in the year 1939 it
appeared as «Himalayas» in the loggers. The issue
on where the paintings exist and whether the paintings kept in the State Museum
are authentic will come frequently and the reply is not likely received.
Nevertheless, let's come to the paintings which were found authentic at
the famous auction houses. Currently the greatest price for the works by Nilkolay
Roerich appeared to be «And appeared» which was sold in 1922 at the Sotheby's in
2007. The sale of this work of art evoked the real shock with the famous
collectors since by the posted price of 100-140 thousand pounds the painting
was sold for 1,756 million pounds ($3,62 million US dollars), 17 times higher
than the experts anticipated. A year before the painting «Lao-Cze» became the
most expensive lot at the Sotheby's in New
York in 1924 when it was sold for $2,2 million US
dollars, ten times higher than the experts predicted.
Svyatoslav
Roerich went by the way of his father and his work art called «Portrait of
Nikolay Roerich in the Tibet
attire» from 1933 was sold for $3 million US dollars at the Christie's on April
24, 2009. This painting is believed to be one of the substantial works in the
artistic heritance of the painter which shows respect to his father and
accentuates his unique style of portrait painting so much typical for the orthodox
icon painting. Svyatoslav marked in his article from 1942, that the
portrait-painter should transfer «the particular features and typical accents which
are most expressive and unique, that are worth memorizing, and either remove or
smooth the features that may draw attention away from the entire picture». That
was likely the factor why the paintings by Roerich are so highly demanded by the
collectors. Though, whatever the case, every painting by the Roerichs is the
unique masterpiece which is full of the profound philosophy.
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.
Today the knitwear is presented in so many styles and
it is so popular that no single autumn and spring collections can do without
hosiery. Knit
women's coats are offered in classic, sporty, romantic, vintage, casual and
ethnic styles. The demand for knit coats
grows in line with the more increasing range of color and texture of woolen
yarn as merino wool, angora, alpaca, Kashmir. Globally known brands launch knit
coats for women in their latest collections and most celebrities today appear
wearing knitwear for many occasions and that's hard to picture that some time
back it was something different.
First established in 1860, Chopard is one of the reputed watch and jewelry houses producing incredibly beautiful, fascinating jewelry items and watches of dream. The house also launched a number of celebrated fragrances as Casmir, Wish, Madness and Infiniment. Despite the long and solid history of the brand, it appeared only recently in the market of fragrances with the first fragrance Chopard launched only in 1992. Six years later, in 1996, the Chopard House presented its Mira-Bai, the fragrance which is still in favor among women keen on oriental scents. Mira-Bai shows no intentions to compete with such a fashion-setter in the sphere of oriental compositions as Guerlain Shalimar, though the fragrance by Chopard takes its niche among the classic perfumes in the market of oriental perfume.
Perfume launched y the Japanese brands or the one inspired by the Japanese culture is something so special in the international market of perfume. Unlike the other fragrances produced in bulk, such perfume with the traces of Japanese inspiration and life surely exert attention and this is reasonable: it is not only the perfume to market and ear money but the whole philosophy, covert but absolute. So, most perfume launched by the famous Japanese culture followers take their niches in the global market, like Kenzo and Issey Miyake. Issey Miyake launched the genially iconic fragrance of the 90s with such a simple and unpretentious name as Issey Miyake L'Eau D'Issey.
