Spina design have made a name for themselves with dramatic lighting and the most impressive tie backs and tassels you have ever seen.
This is where luxury home accessories should be. Understated quality with overstated fun.
With their clients including Harrods, Park lane’s Intercontinental Hotel and also on Park Lane, the Gary Rhodes restaurant, Spina are recognised for their use of high end materials with high spec design.
Spina Design create bespoke lighting and home accessories encompassing their signature opulent style. Fans include the Beckhams, Kelly Hoppen and…me!
For me, apart from the striking design, it’s the use of materials that makes Spina what they are. For example, their acclaimed curtain tie-backs collection with feather detailing.
The exquisite lighting sculptures in their latest designs incorporate semi-precious materials like coral, pearls, even tiger-eye alongside fine Japanese silks.
Also used in the designs are hand-made Wedgwood bone- china roses nestling with delicate crystal beads suspended from acrylic filaments.
Spina design have fun with their designs, that is clear. The end products always deliver.
The Opera Gallery London is hosting a very unique exhibition: artist Lita Cabellut’s personal tribute to the great Frida Kahlo.
You can catch this homage to the great Mexican painter right now, through to 21st april. Lita Cabellut pays her tribute to the Mexican lady on monumental canvases and a powerful and striking colour-palette.
Frida Kahlo’s long admired work has been described as “surrealist”, and during 1938, one surrealist described Kahlo as a “ribbon around a bomb”. An examination of Kahlo’s life makes this description quite apt.
La Perla Negra is Cabellut’s tribute to Kahlo and it is quite something. The paintings are huge, both in size and colour. Bold would be an understatement.
Lita Cabellut was born in 1961 in Barcelona, where she grew up in a poor Gypsy-environment. Her work is closely intertwined with the memories of the old area of Barcelona, El Raval, with closeness to the docks, La Bocquerai market, Las Ramblas and Sant Antonie market, replete with pickpockets, street performers and of course, prostitutes.
She studied at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam between 1982 and 1984.
Nowadays, Lita Cabellut is regarded as a painter with a unique pictorial language. Her ‘humanfaced’ paintings are exposed all around the globe, in New York, Dubai, Miami, Singapore, Hong Kong, Barcelona, London, Paris, Venice, Monaco, Seoul and many more cities.
The Opera Gallery are getting good at this, another important and exciting exhibition.
Not to be missed.
Kate Middleton’s wedding bouquet, what is it going to look like?
Well, like most things regarding the Wedding of the year, no one is completely sure. However, if anyone can give us an educated guess, it has to be Flower expert Judith Blacklock.
Fox Television have recognised Judith’s knowledge and skill and have snapped her up as the station’s “Flower Pundit” for the big day. Judith will give a commentary on the blooms for one of USA’s largest News networks.
Fox are expecting to pull in 200 million viewers for the Royal Wedding!
Judith Blacklock is renowned worldwide for her teaching skills in flower arranging and floristry. She set up her flower school in Knightsbridge 12-years ago. Today, it is the only private flower arranging and floristry school in the UK with accreditation from the British Accreditation Council (BAC).
After the Royal Wedding, Judith will be running an exclusive one off masterclass, showing how to recreate Kate’s bouquet and other exciting designs. You will be able to take all your creations away with you.
The flower arranging class will be in Kensington on the 14th May. The cost for this is (for two) £235 (including all materials and refreshments).
This is an excellent way to get a real insight into the world of professional flower arranging and just exactly what Kate Middleton’s wedding bouquet looks like.
You even get one too, just need a dashing Prince now!
Last week saw the launch of elite London Nightclub, One For One, in swanky Park lane.
The launch night was brought forward two weeks due to demand, and the most expensive bottle of Champagne London has ever sold went for £80,000.
The London Boutique nightclub launch night had some important Celebrity guests, including Alice Dellal who rocked up in leathers, Sadie Frost, Amber Le Bon, Jade Parfitt and Jasmine Guinness.
‘We just couldn’t wait any longer to open the club, we had a lot of friends in town so we opened a bit early, it’s a bit of sneak preview’ commented one of the owners.
The club is all about the finest things in luxury, guests drank Ciroc vodka mules and Dom Perignon rose champagne. One For One, Park Lane officially opens its doors next week to its guests and members.
The club is designed for those who want the best in service. Guests enjoy private rooms, an individual host for each table and details such as lockable under table drawers.
The bottle in question was an Armand de Brignac (Ace of Spades) champagne, called a ” Nebuchadnezzer”, there are only two of these bottles IN THE WORLD.
When the club formally opens, you can expect great things.
The Opera Gallery gives us another excellent take on the Royal wedding.
Following on from the success of artist Zoobs Kate Middleton portrait with a Sex Pistols twist, comes “the new Banksy” Rich Simmons and his cheeky image of Queen Elizabeth the graffiti artist!
This was the first time for live street art to take place on New Bond Street to celebrate the collaboration between Rich Simmons and The Opera Gallery. Artist Rich Simmons produced his dynamic art on the external walls of the Opera Gallery using spray cans and stencils.
“I have met the Queen, she’s really nice. I’m not sure she would like my work, but I definitely think Wills would. I have huge respect for the Royals and for the upcoming wedding, I think they are great role models and I have done this picture as a gift after all the help I received from the Princes Trust when I was a struggling artist. This is my way of giving back, do come and see my art which is now for sale at The Opera Gallery!”
Jean-David Malat, Director of Opera Gallery London, was delighted by the art piece and all of the media attention it has brought the collaboration between Rich Simmons and The Opera Gallery. Rich Simmon’s pieces including this live piece of art will be available to view and purchase from The Opera Gallery right now. “It was important for us to start this new street art collaboration on the street. I strongly believe in Rich Simmons, he could very well be the next Banksy of our generation”.
I totally agree, Simmons clearly has the same sense of humour as Banksy, as well as the required skill. I would love this to be shown to the Queen, I bet she would give us a chuckle!
The Opera Gallery London has a collection of high-end contemporary and modern paintings and sculptures, displaying a permanent collection of the most renowned international artists, and special exhibitions every two months.
