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Nº. 10 Edition

René Gruau

Gruau worked for numerous magazines including Marie-Claire, Femina, Elle, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Flair, L'Officiel, and Madame Figaro, and L'Officiel de la Couture.

Gruau was hired by major designers like Pierre Balmain, Christian Dior, Jacques Fath, Balenciaga, Elsa Schiaparelli, Rochas, Lanvin, Elizabeth Arden, and Hubert de Givenchy.

Born Renato Zavagli Ricciardelli delle Caminate in Rimini, Italy, on 4 February 1909, René Gruau was the son of an Italian count but instead of following in his father's footsteps and accepting the job of royal military commander his passion and inclination for arts led him to a love and pursuance of fine arts.

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Eileen Gray

Eileen Gray, Ireland's most influential designer.

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Ttrained and excelled in Japanese lacquer work. Her screens are upheld as some of the world's finest examples of the art.

The dragon chair was sold at the Christie's Yves Saint Laurent Le Bergé auction in Paris for €19,500,000 - the highest price ever paid for a piece of 20th-century furniture.

Eileen Gray's dragon chair was bought by an anonymous bidder who gave Eileen Gray expert dealer, Cheska Vallois, carte-blanche to purchase it at whatever price it took - a cool €25,000,000 including taxes.

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The oft exhibited Le Destin is one of the most priceless examples of her work.

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Presented at the Salon D'Automne exhibition in 1924 was so ahead of its time, critics were baffled.

Eileen Gray's second piece of domestic architecture, designed as a retreat for herself, is an evolution of the function over form philosophy applied to her work on Villa e1027 - modern, minimalist and experimental on all levels.

Eileen Gray's final vacation work, completed when she was in her late 70s, was as extraordinary an example of the juxtaposition of a preserved original stone building with a modern extension in ecological harmony with its environment as contemporary architecture would wish to study by way of example today.

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E-1027
A veritable icon of modernist architecture: Eileen Gray's villa E-1027.

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The complete Villa e1027, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin

Incorporating almost 300 separate architectural, fixtures and fittings designs, the villa is undoubtedly the apotheosis of her life's work.

Constructed her villa e1027 in the South of France for her then-lover Jean Badovici between 1926 and 1928 - arguably the first pieces of modernist architecture ever realised.

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The modern furniture pieces she designed for the villa remain in production to this day, including her ever-enduring 'adjustable table', commercially known as the 'e1027 table'. It was designed in 1925.

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The bibendum chair: Eileen Gray's sense of humour is evident in this design inspired by the Michelin Man tyre company logo.

Commercially successful was the production of her carpet designs with Evelyn Wyld, 1910 to 1924. Dorothy Walker arranged for Donegal Carpets to produce eight of her designs again in the 1970s.

Evelyn Wyld: A life-long friend and business partner who produced Eileen Gray's carpet designs at their studio in rue Visconti.

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Vengeance 復仇

A 2009 Hong Kong–French thriller film directed by Johnnie To, and written by Wai Ka-Fai.

It stars Johnny Hallyday, Anthony Wong, Lam Ka-Tung, Lam Suet, Simon Yam and Sylvie Testud. Vengeance tells the story of Francis Costello, a French chef and former assassin.

The idea of Johnnie To directing an English-language film originated with the ARP co-founders and French producers Michèle and Laurent Pétin, who had Alain Delon in mind for the lead role.

In 2006, after Delon turned down the role, the Pétins recommended Johnny Hallyday, who was cast in the lead role after meeting with To in early 2008.

Budget

Estimated

$ 1.,346,952

Props

Director: Johnnie To

Runtime 109 min
Length 2.943 m
Format 35 mm
Sound Dolby

Gross

Box office

$ 12,234,889

Marlene Dietrich

A crucial part of the overall effect was created by von Sternberg's exceptional skill in lighting and photographing Dietrich to optimum effect—the use of light and shadow, including the impact of light passed through a veil or slatted blinds (as for example in Shanghai Express)—which, when combined with scrupulous attention to all aspects of set design and costumes, make this series of films among the most visually stylish in cinema history.

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Veruschka

Veruschka is known professionally as Veruschka, born Vera Gottliebe Anna Gräfin von Lehndorff-Steinort on 14 May 1939, in Königsberg, East Prussia.

Her father, Count von Lehndorff-Steinort was involved in a plot to assassinate Hitler in 1944 and hanged that year, when Vera was three. Her mother was arrested, and Vera and her sisters spent the rest of the war in Gestapo camps. They were reunited with their mother after the war, but the family was destitute, and ostracised by other Germans for their father's treachery.

Chanel N^o.5

Chanel No. 5 is the first perfume launched by French couturier Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel.

At the age of twelve, Chanel was handed over to the care of nuns, and for the next six years spent a stark, disciplined existence in a convent orphanage, Aubazine, founded by Cistercians in the 12th century. From her earliest days there, the number five had potent associations for her. For Chanel, the number five was especially esteemed as signifying the pure embodiment of a thing, its spirit, its mystic meaning. The paths that led Chanel to the cathedral for daily prayer were laid out in circular patterns repeating the number five.

Chanel envisioned a design that would be an antidote for the over-elaborate, precious fussiness of the crystal fragrance bottles then in fashion popularized by Lalique and Baccarat. Her bottle would be "pure transparency ...an invisible bottle." It is generally considered that the bottle design was inspired by the rectangular beveled lines of the Charvet toiletry bottles, which, outfitted in a leather traveling case, were favored by her lover, Arthur "Boy" Capel.

Londonium

London contains four World Heritage Sites: the Tower of London; Kew Gardens; the site comprising the Palace of Westminster, Westminster Abbey, and St Margaret's Church; and the historic settlement of Greenwich (in which the Royal Observatory, Greenwich marks the Prime Meridian, 0° longitude, and GMT).

Portobello Road 1967

Portobello Road is a street in the Notting Hill district of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in west London. It runs almost the length of Notting Hill from south to north, roughly parallel with Ladbroke Grove.

On Saturdays it is home to Portobello Road Market, one of London's notable street markets, known for its second-hand clothes and antiques. Portobello Road was known prior to 1740 as Green's Lane - a winding country path leading from Kensington Gravel Pits, in what is now Notting Hill Gate, up to Kensal Green in the north.

Tessa

Charlotte Rampling

The character she played in François Ozon's Swimming Pool, Sarah Morton, was named after her elder sister, Sarah, who committed suicide at age 23.

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Charlotte Rampling

The Night Porter, in which she again appears alongside Dirk Bogarde, she plays a former concentration camp inmate who, after World War II, reunites with a former camp guard (Bogarde) with whom she had had an ambiguous relationship.

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