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Summer 2019 London Art Week Highlights
Summer 2019 London Art Week is the biggest yet – with 50 different dealers and auction houses from Mayfair & St James’s, Europe and the US participating. The galleries are staging selling exhibitions spanning 5,000 years of art from antiquity to 21st century. Here...
Auchentoshan Whisky Changes The Way South Africans Drink Scotch
They say where you’re from says a lot about who you are and Auchentoshan whisky, pronounced ‘OK-Ken-TO-SHan’, born and raised in the Scottish Lowlands, Glasgow, is staying true to its single malt roots, but with a twist. Triple distilled and matured solely in American...
New generation Horological Smartwatches now available at Frederique Constant
Peter Stas, co-founder of the Group has always been intrigued by how it was possible to add smart features to simple quartz watches. He saw an opportunity to develop exciting connected watches with extensive information and graphics displayed on smartphones since 2010...
The Hunt for SA’s Hottest Young Emerging Creatives Has Begun
Are you the future of South Africa’s design industry? The Design Indaba Emerging Creatives Programme aims to unearth fresh new talent across a multitude of sectors. A chosen group of fifty young architects, fashion designers, illustrators, furniture designers,...
“Object To Project” by Giorgetti
A book curated by Francesca Molteni and Cristina Colli – published by Mondadori Electa – a film directed by Francesca Molteni, and a photography travelling exhibition, all revealing the secrets of the smart Italian manufactory made by Giorgetti, and conveying an...
World Environment Day – 2019 Eco-Logic Awards winners announced
The 2019 Eco-Logic Awards took place on World Environment Day (05 June) at the Table Bay Hotel in Cape Town. Opening the awards with the Keynote address, newly appointed Minister of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Barbara Creecy, emphasised the need for...
100% Design South Africa – The Main Features
The centrepiece of 100% Design South Africa each year is its carefully curated and collaborative feature stands. The show holds innovation and a desire to constantly strive for newness at its core, so each year the creative director duo of Cathy O’Clery and Laurence...
ORMS Collaborates With 16 SA Artists
Best known for being a leader in supplying photographic equipment and digital printing to a myriad of happy customers, ORMS recently decided to join forces with 16 South African artists to launch a limited-edition range of wallpapers. [gallery type="rectangular"...
A Theatre of Life: Jan Neethling Teams up with Graham Modern & Contemporary for 4th Solo Exhibition
Graham Modern & Contemporary, Johannesburg’s premier gallery destination for African Art, is set to unveil the latest body of work by accomplished Johannesburg-based artist, Jan Neethling. ‘Images’, which will be open to the public between 20 June and 18 July...
More on Volkswagen’s new SUV, the T-Cross
With world premiere‘s in Amsterdam, Shanghai and São Paulo, Volkswagen presented its new compact SUV to further progress the company’s global SUV offensive. The T-Cross, which will join the Tiguan, Tiguan Allspace and Touareg in the model range in South Africa, is a...
New Jaguar XE is a hyper-real work of art
Jaguar revealed the new XE sedan in unique fashion, by commissioning a series of highly detailed paintings which blur the lines between art and reality. The trio of hyper-real images show the updated exterior and all-new interior of the new-look sports sedan. Jaguar...
Citco at Salone del Mobile
At this year's Salone del Mobile in Milan, the Italian natural stone company Citco showcased beautiful and elegant pieces for two new collections within its Citco Design and Citco Privé lines. For this year’s collections, Citco collaborated once again with...
Montelobos Mezcal – Tequila to wake the living
Artisanally-produced Montelobos is an unaged Mezcal Joven crafted from carefully cultivated, organic agave espadín (the most common Agave type for Mezcal) that are slow-roasted and small batch-distilled to achieve a perfect balance of sweetness, wood and subtle smoke....
Ian Callum, Jaguar Director of Design, awarded CBE in Queen’s Birthday Honours list
Ian Callum, Jaguar Director of Design, has been awarded a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2019. Awarded for services to the automotive industry, the accolade recognises the significant contribution Ian has made...
Zenith Celebrates50 Years of El Primero
The legendary El Primero high-frequency chronograph celebrates half a century of avant-garde and precision. In tribute to its legendary destiny, Zenith is offering aficionados an anniversary boxed set containing three chronographs with emblematic tricolour counters. A...