Joelle Lifestyle - The World at Home

Yesterday, at Christie’s held the first ever auction in the US devoted to Chinese textiles, I have never seen so many Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Indian elegantly dressed men and women walking around such selective amount of art pieces.

Liuli is the archaic Chinese word for glass. Twenty years ago, Liuligongfang’s founders, Mr Chang Yi and Mrs Loretta Hui-shan Yang had started to use liuli and perfected its craft to create art that embodied the beauty of Chinese culture and history.

Sculptor Josh Hadar super streamlined pedal cruisers has transcended the traditional concept of bicycles. Employing a variety of metal working techniques exclusive to him, he produces his bikes in a Manhattan studio the size of two car garages on Broom Street.

After working in a Paul Smith campaign which has given his career a series shot of mainstream worthyness set designer Gary Card created a big buzz challenging those rules. He is in the new issue of the AnOther Man photographed by William Seldem and styled by Nicholas Formichetti modeling amongst sets that he has created himself.

Gustavo Von Ha, landed recently in Manhattan from Sao Paulo with the clear intention of, how we say in Brazil “Botar pra Quebrar” (to break the city), with his new exhibition: Private Addiction. Born in 1977 in the city of Presidente Prudente, the artist Gustavo Von Ha today is not only a painter, but also a video artist and a draftsman.

Louis Vuitton is to officially announce tomorrow the upcoming Brooklyn retrospective of Takashi Murakami which will coincide with the launch of a new collaboration between Marc Jacobs and Murakami.

In a luxury market that seems to know no boundaries in terms of setting new standards in product and service, the recently opened Town House Galleria in Milan has wasted no time propelling itself to the top of the pile of being Europe’s first seven-star hotel.

The large diamond will be offered at auction by Sothebys in Hong Kong on April 8, 2008, during its Magnificent Jewels and Jadeite Sale. Large enough to fill a tablespoon the diamond is expected to fetch US $10-13 million dollars.