SAILING THE SEAS OF INK: FABIO SCALA

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Fabio Scala started tattooing 10 years ago in Milan during a rather dull moment of his life. He bought a starter kit and tried it out on his own, simply from watching some artists at work. Among the tattooers who helped him with some technical essential advices, Angelo Colussi from Quetzal Tattoo, and Stizzo, who at the time was already an established artist. Over the years he continued his reinterpretation of old masters’ work. Big tattoos, strong lines, solid colors and simple images, clear but full of charm.

For Fabio, traveling is very important. He worked in London from 2004 to 2007, alongside amazing artists who had a major influence on his professional and artistic growth. After his return to Italy, he opened Ladies & Gents Parlour Tattoo in Sesto San Giovanni, a quiet village near Milan, and has a regular spot at Sorry Mama in Pomezia (Rome). As he loves to attend national and international tattoo conventions, he will be at the Tattoo Expo in Rome in May and at the Amsterdam convention in June. Marco Annunziata

Ladies and Gents Tattoo Parlour, Viale Italia, 1002, Sesto San Giovanni, Milano – Italy, www.ladiesandgentstattooparlour.com

Author : Marco Annunziata

04/24/2012
Category: / SAILING THE SEAS OF INK

LONDON BOOK FAIR


The London Book Fair, is the global marketplace for rights negotiation and the sale and distribution of content across print, audio, TV, film and digital channels. Taking place every spring in the world’s premier publishing and cultural capital, it is a unique opportunity to hear from authors, enjoy the vibrant atmosphere and explore innovations shaping the publishing world of the future.

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Author : Gianni Romano

04/23/2012
Category: / STRANGE STREAMING DAYS

TODAY IS THE EARTH DAY

Today is the 42nd anniversary of the Earth Day with the aim of “Mobilze the Earth” in order to ask a sustainable future and calling upon individuals, organizations, and governments to do their part.

We firmly believe that the environmental protection of planet earth, our wonderful and fragile home, starts from everyone of us, thus there is no better day than today to mobilize Elitism to make its own part with a new category, Green Wave.

We want to celebrate the Earth Day mentioning Planet Earth, an amazing documentary collection, made by BBC, absolutely inspiring to take action in the protection of this wondrous planet

Author : Redazione

04/22/2012
Category: / GREEN WAVE

HORST A. FRIEDRICHS – CYCLE STYLE

Take a cue from Londoners and see what you can wear while you are riding your bycicle!

Photographer Horst A. Friedrichs has captured the many styles of London cyclists in his new book, Cycle Style. The book is filled with photos of his and her fashion for those whose preferred mode of transportation is two wheels. There are women in stilettos, dandies, men in capes, chic suits and an interesting array of hats, sans helmets. Most important, there are 150 color photos of the most interesting modern and vintage bikes around.

http://www.horstfriedrichs.com/

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Author : Valentina Matelli

04/22/2012
Category: / RIDE HERE RIDE NOW

EARTH DAY – 22 APRIL (IN NEW YORK)

On April 22, more than one billion people around the globe will participate in Earth Day 2012. People of all nationalities and backgrounds will voice their appreciation for the planet and demand its protection. Earth Day is a day early each year on which events are held worldwide to increase awareness of the Earth’s natural environment. It is celebrated in more than 175 countries every year, the United Nations designated April 22 International Mother Earth Day.  If you are in New York, let’s celebrate the Eath Day join the High Line Events. Fluxus artist Alison Knowles, in collaboration with Jessica Higgins and Joshua Selman, restages Make a Salad, an iconic event originally performed in 1962. The artist chops lettuce and other vegetables to the beat of live music, and then produces a giant salad by tossing the ingredients together in a grand gesture.

Look at the full program here

It’s time to mobilize the planet from the ground up to send a message that the Earth won’t wait.

Author : Francesca Querci

04/21/2012
Category: / GREEN WAVE

SUGGESTED BY OLIVIA: HELEN HUNT JACKSON

A Calendar of Sonnets: April
No days such honored days as these! While yet
Fair Aphrodite reigned, men seeking wide
For some fair thing which should forever bide
On earth, her beauteous memory to set
In fitting frame that no age could forget,
Her name in lovely April’s name did hide,
And leave it there, eternally allied
To all the fairest flowers Spring did beget.
And when fair Aphrodite passed from earth,
Her shrines forgotten and her feasts of mirth,
A holier symbol still in seal and sign,
Sweet April took, of kingdom most divine,
When Christ ascended, in the time of birth
Of spring anemones, in Palestine.

Author : Olivia Lewit

04/20/2012
Category: / POETRY BENCH

MATERIAL MATTERS FAIR 2012 @MILANO


Our economic system is in turmoil. Our resources are becoming scarce. In the meantime, we stick to the same economic models, producing more products, producing more waste.
What if, in an alternative economic model, income tax is replaced with tax on raw materials? What would this mean for the design industry? Will designers offer alternative ways of creating materials, will they specialize in upcycling, concentrate on services, go digital, or do something else?
“Material Matters: a future furniture fair” features 20 design companies—both real and imagined—that might come to thrive given the change in policy. The imaginary future fair aims to inspire designers to develop alternative business models urged by material scarcity and economic upheaval, striving for a real fair next time. Material Matters takes part in Domus Open Design Archipelago, a collective laboratory that previews the future of design, located at the beautiful Palazzo Clerici.

DOMUS Open Design Archipelago
Palazzo Clerici, Via Clerici 5, Milan, Italy
Public transport: MM 1  Duomo / Cordusio

Author : Francesca Querci

04/18/2012
Category: / GLARE LIVING

CYAN KID

Listen Cyan Kid : Ancient Bling on Soundcloud

Author : Maxim Deluxe

04/17/2012
Category: / LOST IN MUSIC

FORD MUSTANG 1966

Amy Jade – ford mustang 1966 -

There’s no doubt: 1966 is one of the most popular Ford Mustang model years in the history of the car. In fact, March 1966 marked the creation of the millionth Mustang. Advertisements became popular reminders of the Mustang’s youthful spirit, such as one featuring two mature adults sitting in a new Mustang with the words, “Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.” It was the car to have it you were seeking the fountain of youth. It was the car to have if you were looking to win over your neighbor or hit the road for fun and adventure. The 1965 and 1966 Mustangs are differentiated by variations in the exterior, despite similar design. These variations include the emblem on the quarter-panels behind the doors. In 1965 the emblem was a single vertical piece of chrome, while in 1966 the emblem was smaller in height and had three horizontal bars extending from the design, resembling an “E”. The front intake grilles and ornaments were also different. The 1965 front grille used a “honeycomb” pattern, while the 1966 version was a “slotted” style.  1966 saw introduction of ‘High Country Special’ limited edition, 333 of them were sold in Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska. Born in 1964..the legend continues to grow.

Author : Redazione

04/17/2012
Category: /CAR ROOM

CHRISTOPHER JENNER – SWELL #SALONE DEL MOBILE 2012

From 17th – 22nd of April Sala Napoleonica @Accademia di Brera will be the setting for the allegorical installation ‘The Looking Glass House’, inviting to discover the designer’s new capsule collection.

700 spheres playfully refracting light and colour. Pushing boundaries and redefining relations with traditional craftsmanship, the collection is produced using extensive and technological manufacturing processes. Entirely British made, it features deeply buttoned calf leather benches, ottomans, and stools in a spectrum of complimentary colours, whilst sand cast tables with glass legs and hand blown lamps in metallic finishes. Each piece comes combining traditional craftsmanship and cutting edge technology. SWELL was designed with the specific intent of stirring emotions‘ says Christopher Jenner. ‘I want my work to have simple and immediate appeal’. ‘I believe that design should be instinctive and individual – a direct response to the mass produced tyranny of good taste”.

 

http://www.christopher-jenner.com/

Author : Redazione

04/16/2012
Category: SALONE DEL MOBILE 2012

ABOUT MAKING CHOICES: FREE SAMPLES

Director Jay Gammill says that his first length feature, Free Samples, is “a film about those moments  when our idea of what our life should look like is at odds with what it actually is, but eventually life intervenes, and so the movie is about the journey through the wayward moments. It confronts that journey front and center, and through Jillian, the main character, it pokes some fun at it”.

Free Samples stars indie darling Jess Weixler (Jillian) as a Stanford law-school dropout who gets stuck working in an ice cream truck for a day and is distracted by every goofy weirdo in town while she tries to figure out what to do with her life.  This one day spent in a truck on the streets of Los Angeles will wake Jillian from her aimless daze and make her see that life doesn’t stop just because you want it to. Ultimately Gammill’s movie is about making choices in life which might be good or bad, but those moment of decision are the ones that matter.

The cast also includes Jesse Eisenberg, Jason Ritter, Matt Walsh, Halley Feiffer, and nothing less than Hollywood legend Tippi Hedren!

www.jaygammill.com

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Author : Federica Mascagni

04/15/2012
Category: / THE SECRET SCREEN

ORTO BIKES

This is a bike reworked project that comes from a place in Europe that not many of us are familiar with. Twenty artists in from Ljubljana, Slovenia have worked their magic to turn old and discarded bicycles into brand new ones that are not just unique, but will surely turn heads as they pedal away on streets. A project taken up by Slovenian phone company Orto, the recycled bicycles already seem to have the attention of the world thanks to their special designs that makes every single one of them sport an unmistakably distinct personality.

The project was carried out and finished within a 10 day period and some of the best artists and design firms in the region took up the challenge of turning old bike scrap into new bicycles that would spread the message of pedaling with pomp and unabated glitz.

The design and recycling effort shows what can be done if creative minds and green intent come together.

Go cycling!

 

http://www.orto.si/kolesa/

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Author : Valentina Matelli

04/15/2012
Category: / RIDE HERE RIDE NOW

SUGGESTED BY OLIVIA: E.B BROWNING

The Best Thing In The World

What’s the best thing in the world?
June-rose, by May-dew impearled;
Sweet south-wind, that means no rain;
Truth, not cruel to a friend;
Pleasure, not in haste to end;
Beauty, not self-decked and curled
Till its pride is over-plain;
Light, that never makes you wink;
Memory, that gives no pain;
Love, when, so, you’re loved again.
What’s the best thing in the world?
—Something out of it, I think.

Author : Olivia Lewit

04/13/2012
Category: / POETRY BENCH

AMERICAN DREAMERS @ LA STROZZINA

Does the “American dream” still exist? The exhibition (9 March–15 July 2012) comprises a reflection on the work of artists who use fantasy, imagination and dreams to build alternative worlds to the increasingly complex reality of life today. Some condense the essence of reality into miniaturised systems while others expand outwards into space, and yet others feed on fantastic, dreamlike images or reflect on such symbolic themes as the home and the family, or the mass media imagery, which play even today a central role in the construction of the myth of the American way of life. This exhibition is organised by the CCC Strozzina in conjunction with the Hudson River Museum (Yonkers, New York, USA) and curated by Bartholomew F. Bland.

Artists: Laura Ball, Adrien Broom, Nick Cave, Will Cotton, Adam Cvijanovic, Richard Deon, Thomas Doyle, Mandy Greer, Kirsten Hassenfeld, Patrick Jacobs, Christy Rupp

Opening hours:
9 March–15 July 2012
Tuesday–Sunday 10.00–20.00
free Thursdays 18.00–23.00

Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina
Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi
piazza Strozzi 50123 Firenze
T. +39 055 2645155

Author : Redazione

04/12/2012
Category: / GENERAL

PALAZZO TORNABUONI RESIDENCES IN FLORENCE

Palazzo Tornabuoni is an independent private residence club managed by Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts. Located in the historic heart of Florence, in a central neighbourhood that hosts not only museums and historic monuments such as Uffizi, the Ponte Vecchio and the Duomo. Thirty-eight elegant studio, one two and three bedroom residences are located within the framework of the restored 15th century palace. Each residence is unique. In every room, the layout, the historic decorative details, the play of light and the inspiration of designer Michele Bonan creates a subtly different enviroment, a fusion of warm classicism and contemporary flair. Some residences are embelished by priceless fifteenth century frescoes, others enjoy breathtaking views over Florentine rooftops to Brunelleschi’s cathedral dome. A stylish, unpretentious and understated palace refuge in the heart of one of the world’s most elegant cities.

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Author : Francesca Querci

04/11/2012
Category: / GLARE LIVING

CHROMATICS


Chromatics – Kill for Love
Listen The New Album on Soundcloud

Author : Maxim Deluxe

04/10/2012
Category: / LOST IN MUSIC

FRED PERRY – CYCLING BLACK CANVAS 2012

Fred Perry launches its second ‘Fred Perry x Cycling Blank Canvas‘ collection for Spring 2012.

Celebrating the brand’s close relationship with sport, Fred Perry recreates the classic cycling shirt, once popular with Mods in the 1960′s, into a modern-day fashion garment.

For SS12, five zip-down pique shirts has been created with special graphic and techincal details.. ideal for wear on and off your bike. The collection includes also limited edition shoes available in black or white and a traditional cyclist’s messenger bag emblazoned with championship stripes!

http://www.fredperry.com/laurel-wreath-collection/blank-canvas/cycling/

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Author : Valentina Matelli

04/10/2012
Category: / RIDE HERE RIDE NOW

HAPPY EASTER 2012

We‘ll be back on Tuesday with the latest news!

Author : Francesca Querci

04/07/2012
Category: / GENERAL

SUGGESTED BY OLIVIA : WENDELL BERRY

LIKE THE WATER by Wendell Berry

Like the water
of a deep stream,
love is always too much.
We did not make it.
Though we drink till we burst,
we cannot have it all,
or want it all.
In its abundance
it survives our thirst.

In the evening we come down to the shore
to drink our fill,
and sleep,
while it flows
through the regions of the dark.
It does not hold us,
except we keep returning to its rich waters
thirsty.

We enter,
willing to die,
into the commonwealth of its joy.

Author : Olivia Lewit

04/06/2012
Category: / POETRY BENCH

GROW UP AND BLOW AWAY: TERESA CANNATA’

From left to right

1 H&M flared, high-waisted jeans

2 Black Havaianas

3 Books: one I love (IT by Stephen King) and one I haven’t read yet (Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer)

4 NARS velvet matte lip pencil in Dragon Girl

5 Diptyque Tam Dao

6 My iPod (I would actually bring my iPhone with me, but I used it to take this picture)

7 Necklace with Agadez silver cross

8 Trusty (and faded) Converse All Star hi-tops in red

9 H&M basic tee in heather grey (my favourite colour for t-shirts)

10 H&M floral bed jacket (which stands for my collection of haoris, houmongi kimonos and bed jackets)

Author : Teresa Cannatà

04/05/2012
Category: GROW UP AND BLOW AWAY

EASTER

EASTER

Listen Ur A Great Babe on Soundcloud  or watch the video on You Tube

Author : Maxim Deluxe

04/02/2012
Category: / LOST IN MUSIC

THE TAIWAN OYSTER

Director Mark Jarrett spent three years in Taiwan as an English teacher and this life time experience has been crucial to him.  He said that since he experienced a 7.8 magnitude earthquake there in 1999, Taiwan has been tattooed on his psyche. For years the island has served as his band camp, boot camp, and romantic Neverland. Mark started thinking about setting a script in Taiwan for a long time but it wasn’t until the summer of 2007, as he began reading the novel As I Lay Dying by Faulkner, that he actually started incubating an idea about a road trip set there that touched the ideas of land, blood, place and disappointment. Directing The Taiwan Oyster, Mark has seen his dreams come true.

Filmed with a low budget, and co-written by Mark, his brother Mitchell  and longtime friend Jordan Heimer, the movie tells the story of Darin and Simon, two American  kindergarten teachers  who steal the corpse of a fallen countryman and embark on a quixotic road trip through the Taiwanese countryside in search of a suitable burial place for a person they barely knew.  Masquerading as a bender road-movie, the darkly comic film explores deep existentialist questions as the protagonists journey deeper and deeper into the Taiwanese countryside. Darin and Simon’s quest for the perfect burial spot becomes a strange trip down Taiwan’s picturesque East Coast Highway as they encounter the unique cultures of Taiwan, welcoming families, violent gangsters, and Nikita, another lost soul who joins their odyssey. Along the way, they explore the Southeast Asian ex-patriot experience, their own personal demons, and the universal questions that arise when one is confronted with an untimely death. Referring to the director’s words, The Taiwan Oyster reflects a punk rock attitude of filmmaking. It’s raw, soulful, passionate and sincere. And this is the way we like it.

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Author : Federica Mascagni

04/01/2012
Category: / THE SECRET SCREEN

WOLFPACK HUSTLE MARATHON CRASH RACE

Los Angeles. 3 a.m. 26.2 miles.

Zero cars on the streets thanks to the civic planning of the annual L.A. Marathon course  which  closed off to vehicle traffic during the early hours of the morning in preparation for the foot race. Four race categories: Women’s Fixed, Women’s Geared, Men’s Fixed, Men’s Geared. More than 2000 people. Welcome to the Wolfpack Hustle Marathon Crash Race! A special race dedicated to fixed gear, track and road bike culture in Los Angeles, a city currently dominated by the lowly automobile. They aren’t Olympians or roided-out weekend warrior types… not even close. They simply love to ride stronger, faster and to assert their rights to these gritty streets.

http://wolfpackhustle.com/

Author : Valentina Matelli

04/01/2012
Category: / RIDE HERE RIDE NOW

CHOICES, JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

John Chamberlain was born in 1927 in Rochester, Indiana. He grew up in Chicago and, after serving in the navy from 1943 to 1946, attended the Art Institute of Chicago from 1951 to 1952. At that time, he began making flat, welded sculptures influenced by the work of David Smith. In 1955 and 1956, Chamberlain studied and taught sculpture at Black Mountain College, near Asheville, North Carolina, where most of his friends were poets, including Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, and Charles Olson. By 1957, he began to include scrap metal from cars in his work, and from 1959 onward he concentrated on sculpture built entirely of crushed automobile parts welded together. Chamberlain’s first major solo show was held at the Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, in 1960. Chamberlain’s work was widely acclaimed in the early 1960s. His sculpture was included in The Art of Assemblage at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1961, the same year he participated in the São Paulo Biennial. From 1962, Chamberlain showed frequently at the Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, and in 1964 his work was exhibited at the Venice Biennale. While he continued to make sculpture from auto parts, Chamberlain also experimented with other mediums. From 1963 to 1965, he made geometric paintings with sprayed automobile paint. In 1966, the same year he received the first of two fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, he began a series of sculptures of rolled, folded, and tied urethane foam. These were followed in 1970 by sculptures of melted or crushed metal and heat-crumpled Plexiglas. Chamberlain’s work was presented in a retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, in 1971.

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Author : Redazione

03/30/2012
Category: / GENERAL

THE RUN, ETRO GOMMA

In this frantic time where speed (of thought too) is a lifestyle, in which the reach of a far target calls to take up the challenge with a restless spur, the need is to find a moment to remember the reason of our trips. The run must be not only a step on the accelerator but maximum dynamism toward our future. The competition smells of citrus, of  the masculine sourness of the artemisia, of the vitality proper of Egyptian jasmin. Of leather and amber that remember our parent’s luxury vintage jackets and sporting auto’s seats. Snappy and romantic, Etro Gomma is the fragrance to steer in style, to change route before the run becomes routine.

http://www.etro.com/en/fragrances/collection/perfumes/

 

Author : Arianna Pistorello

03/30/2012
Category: / GENERAL

oOoOO

oOoOO Sounds
Listen on Soundcloud

Author : Maxim Deluxe

03/26/2012
Category: / LOST IN MUSIC

BALENCIAGA’S NICOLAS GHESQUIERE LOOKS INTO THE EYES OF THE NIGHT

I’ve been a supporter of Balenciaga for a long time, but I must admit the technical/sporty vibe of the latest collections designed by Nicolas Ghesquière has left me quite cold. Things are getting a bit too conceptual for my liking, but I still admire his fearless take on fashion and culture. The fall/winter 2012 collection, for example, is based on a quite complex idea, which re-works the codes of power and business dressing. Amidst an array of boxy jackets and A-line skirts, a sweater was the item of clothing which caught my attention. Well, it did more than attracting my attention: I nearly fell off my chair when I saw it. It was one of those metaphorical bells that ring in my head whenever I see something whose pattern of cultural references I’m immediately able to grasp.
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Author : Teresa Cannatà

03/25/2012
Category: / SCHOOL OF FASHION

JAMES FRANCO: THE DANGEROUS BOOK FOUR BOYS

James  Franco is adding a further step to his career of multitalented actor, writer, filmmaker and visual artist with a new book. James Franco: The Dangerous Book Four Boys has just been published by Skira Rizzoli. The book is a collection of material drawn from Franco’s first solo exhibition of the same name curated by Alanna Heiss and organized by the Clocktower Gallery in New York in 2010.

 James Franco: The Dangerous Book Four Boys explores themes of childhood, nostalgia, games, and destruction in multiple media including sculpture, video, photography, and drawing. Each experimental film, suite of drawings, and raw, childlike construction is presented as a window into the artist’s mind. This dense and often diaristic survey reflects Franco’s interest in the contemporary American landscape of male adolescence, young adulthood, sexuality, and the nature of masculinity itself. Franco has defaced nearly every page of  the book with funny scribbles and sometimes little pictures in black marker, like something out of a school notebook, as a means of explaining the contents further. The volume includes essays by Klaus Biesenbach, Diana Picasso, and the shows own curator, Alanna Heiss.  Release date is set for April 2012.

Image: © JAMES FRANCO: THE DANGEROUS BOOK FOUR BOYS, edited by Alanna Heiss, Skira Rizzoli, 2012.

Author : Federica Mascagni

03/25/2012
Category: / GENERAL

GALLUS CYCLES

 

This is the perfect combination between a cycling lover and an architect: Jeremy Shlachter is Gallus. Born  in Texas, he moved to Scotland in 2002 to attend the Mackintosh School of Architecture at the Glasgow School of Art and there he discovered his passion for bicycles. At the beginning he thought that ride a bike was the cheapest way to move in his new city.. but when he started to work as a bicycle courrier, he became a real fellow . During his “messenger period”, his love for bikes continues to grow:  he suddenly  found that sitting in front of a computer all day was unhealthy, so he made the decision to combine passion for cycling, love of making things and  knowledge about design process, to start his new life and building bicycle frames from A to Z. This is the real story of Gallus Cycles..enjoy.

http://www.galluscycles.com

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Author : Valentina Matelli

03/25/2012
Category: / RIDE HERE RIDE NOW

PALEOZOIC DREAMS, ESTELLE DE’VE’

French-born designer Estelle Dévé is quickly becoming one of Australia’s best and brightest jewellery talents. Since her debut collection, the designer has included an impressive profile of editorial support to a growing list of national and international stockists. Now calling Australia home, Estelle’s work is regularly featured in some of the country’s more forward-thinking fashion magazines, Russh, Fallen and Oyster have been quick to notice her artisanal approach, while Florence Welsh and Susie Bubble, some of fashions’most progressive public figures, are also staunch supporters of her designs. From delicate, pewter-cast chains of gold to statement pieces of leather and resin, Estelle’s vision is both innovative and in interesting. Her work a reflection of personality and circumstance. Though completely self-taught when it comes to design, Estelle is following a familiar pattern of purpose. Both her father and aunt were at some point jewellery designers; the latter working as a fine jewellery to fashion house, Chanel, under the authority of Mr. Lagerfeld himself.

Estelle latest collection called Paleozoic Dreams drive back in time and bring to the state of precius some symbols and objects that has never been considered like that. Gold teeth, bars, irregular shapes, everything is made to give a primitive touch to the sleekest of the looks. Check out Dévè’s webpage for more details, she has talent. Really.

http://estelledeve.com/

 

Photo, Triassic Ring Set – gold pleated pewter

Author : Redazione

03/23/2012
Category: / GENERAL