Art steams ahead despite the ructions Feb 1, 2008
Among the highlights was an impressive emerald green stained Rene Lalique "Poissons" vase, which fetched $14,100 and went to the Melbourne trade, and a Lalique "Sirene" decanter which brought $5875. The Lalique wares belonged to the Snow family - one-time owners of Snow's department store in Sydney. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Antiques calendar Nov 3, 2007
His topic will be "The Art of Rene Lalique." The Bruce Museum, 1 Museum Drive, Greenwich. 1:15 p.m., followed by a tea. (Stamford Advocate)
HAVIN' A BALL IN OLD HAVANA Jul 8, 2007
" That's 1980 and starred Mary Tyler Moore and Donald Sutherland. Ask where's a movie house you can go to and you're told there isn't one. In the cigar center of the world where, incidentally, smoking isn't allowed, visit a famoso tobacconist who hand-rolled an 11-foot cigar, who makes boxes of 400 Cohibas that can be kept 25 years in their own boxes and what photo hangs on his wall? Raquel Welch. Who knew she smoked cigars? It's refrigerators from the '40s, vehicles from the '50s, slogans from... (New York Post -- Gossip)
Garden Shimmers With Hand-Blown Wonders Of Glass Jan 8, 2007
" Sixty-five, with paint-splattered shoes, a bush of curly hair and a black patch over his left eye, Chihuly was born in Tacoma, Wash., to a butcher-turned-union organizer father and homemaker mother. As a teenager, he lost his father to a heart attack and his brother to a Navy plane crash. He was depressed but reluctantly enrolled in college at his mother's insistence. Chihuly had decided to pursue a life in interior design and architecture, but learned to melt glass and did some innovative... (Tampa Bay Online, FL -- News)
Chihuly's world is one of shimmering, kaleidoscopic glass Jan 7, 2007
Like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Rene Lalique before him, Chihuly has helped elevate what often is thought simply as a craft to a fine art and captivated millions who've seen his work. Count among them Bruce Greer, president of the board of trustees at Fairchild, who was instrumental in bringing Chihuly's work here two years in a row. (Longview Daily News, WA)
