oman draped in a toga holding a torch in her right hand. The structure is covered with a thin layer of copper except for the flame which is covered with gold leaf. Copyright: skeeze She is wearing a crown whose seven points symbolize the 'Seven Continents' (North America, South America, E ...
men to restore the former splendor to this 20,000 square meter store and its interior decorations. The spectacular grand staircase has been regilded with gold leaf and leads to a monumental Art Nouveau fresco, 115 meters long! Completely restored for the store's reopening, this magnificent peacock ...
e piles. It is served by 18 elevators and topped by two restaurants that seem to float in the sky... For the interior decoration, 1800 m² of 24-carat gold leaf were used, as well as marble and impressive aquariums containing 250,000 liters of water. The price of a night in this prestigious hotel ...
the trail, an old Cistercian abbey now in ruins has been transformed by the artist Felice Varini. He adorned its walls and roofs with large golden circles made of gold leaf that capture light and animate this medieval relic with subtle plays of reflection. In total, there are 14 remarkable sites t ...
to paintings but traces the history of art from Antiquity to 1900. I was thus surprised to see Greek black-figure vases and Orthodox icons gilded with gold leaf. To be completely honest, I didn't have time to explore the entire permanent collection as it spans an area of 5000 square meters. However ...
ces (Picasso, Magritte, Giacometti) at Landau Fine Art. A Mycenaean cup from the 14th century BC at Galerie Tarantino. A brutalist cabinet in steel and gold leaf by Paul Evans (1960s) at Gokelaere & Robinson. This diversity is no coincidence: 78% of buyers under 40 say they mix antique and contempo ...
neously, the Antoine-Lécuyer Museum of Fine Arts unveils forty works by master lacquerer Gaston Suisse. Crazy about exotic wildlife, the artist combines aluminum powder, gold leaf, and eggshell (yes, literally) to make lemurs, fennecs, or swallows shimmer. Each panel is a monochrome of reflections ...
