the Ensō lamp is based on the Japanese ensō
which is a hand-drawn circle that symbolizes oneness
deeply influenced the Ensō lamp’s design
capturing the essence of a brushstroke in three-dimensional form
The Ensō Lamp by Catellani & Smith received the 2024 Good Design Award from the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture
recognizing its exceptional integration of artistic vision
The Ensō lamp is available in table and wall-mounted versions
each serving as a functional art piece that brings a sense of tranquility and elegance to any space
characterized by the unmistakable irregular surface
made with an exclusive Catellani & Smith’s technique
is hand-painted in blue and rests on a brass base
Ensō is a sculptural lamp capable of defining a space even when turned off
Ensō is designed and manufactured to last over time thanks to the use of high-quality materials and to the replaceability of each component of the lamp
By using high-efficiency LED sources (lm/W)
Ensō minimizes consumption while guaranteeing a nominal output of 1750 lumens with a power of 17 W and a high color rendering index (CRI>90)
The lamp is based on a patented wireless electrical connection and distribution system designed
Project: Ensō Lamp Designers: Catellani & Smith srl.Lead Designer: Enzo CatellaniManufacturer: Catellani & Smith srl
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WATCHPRO USA
one of the world’s foremost experts and traders in vintage Patek Phillipe watches
is holding a week long online auction featuring some of its most treasured timepieces
The international auction is being hosted by Loupe This
a fast-growing specialist platform founded in 2021 by renowned watch collectors and experts
Collectability was launched in by John Reardon
who spent 22 years in the rarefied air of Sotheby’s and Christies
where he was international head of watches until leaving to launch his own business in 2019
The Loupe This auction is already open online with bidding for 16 out of an original 20 remaining Patek Philippe wristwatches
pocket watches and a carriage clock ending between July 22 and 25
“As long-time friends of both Justin and Eric
we have always wanted to do a project together and a Loupe This x Collectability auction is a dream come true as we combine our efforts to offer you a curated collection of Patek Philippe timepieces
All timepieces were fully authenticated by Collectability and Loupe This and represent the wide range of Patek Philippe’s production from the 19th century through today
Current bidding ranges from around $5,000 to $15,000 with only a few days to go until bidding ends for the remaining pieces
Click here to view all watches and bid online
then Patek Philippe Golden Ellipse collection marked a significant shift for Patek as they embraced the constantly changing world that was the 1960’s
With the dawn quartz technology on its way
Patek sought a watch that was both unisex in its design and also immediately ‘Patek’ in its aesthetic
Patek debuted the Golden Ellipse to immediate success as a result of its novel and forward-thinking design and luxurious construction
Made from 18k yellow gold and powered by an automatic cal
3604 that we have here showcases the whacky and wonderful designs that brands created in the 1970s thanks to its hulking 37mm rounded rectangular construction which has earned it its “TV-Screen” nickname
Offered on a silky intricate integrated bracelet and featuring a “brun soleil” (brown sun) dial that hosts a reddish brown color along with an appropriate sunburst effect
this example is extravagant in just about the best way possible
Discontinued in 1980 after being produced for a few years
3604 is one of several Golden Ellipse variants that have proven to become a true cult-classic in recent years as collectors begin to shine a light on the collection as whole
Easily situated among the most iconic dress watches ever
the Patek Philippe Calatrava embodies the very essence of what a classically-styled timepiece should look like
Defining the entire market niche in 1932 when it debuted
the Calatrava has become the foundation of Patek Philippe’s elegant offerings
with the collection growing to include a multitude of references of various designs across a variety of dials
complications and more – which the example we present here proves
5153G features the collection’s emblematic round case with a solid hinged caseback which provides a beautiful view of the gorgeously finished automatic cal
324 movement found beneath it when its opened
With straight soldered lugs featuring screw-in bars further emphasising the historical officer watch aesthetic
5153G is a distinctive watch in its unique design as a modern Patek Philippe
With a glossy black dial featuring case-matching 18kt white gold hands and indices
5153G is a monochromatic beauty that will look immaculate on any wrist and stand proud with its distinctive design language that we seldom see any more in today’s horological landscape
the World Time Chronograph Complications ref
5935A boasts two design tenets that Patek Philippe collectors cherish the most
especially when in Patek’s more complicated offerings; a salmon-colored dial
Combining two of horology’s most impressive complications
which is inextricably linked to Patek’s heritage
5935A epitomizes Patek Philippe’s impressive horological roots
5935A’s salmon dial features a set of charcoal grey 18kt gold hour markers
a “carbon motif” decoration in its center and a series of concentrically-brushed rings along its periphery that house the city names and hours to power its world time function
Patek’s first world-time model to be made of stainless steel
5935A is quite a historical piece for the Genevan Giants
especially considering how important the world time complication is to their identity
CH 28‑520 HU movement which is on display behind an exhibition caseback inside of its 41mm stainless steel case
while also retaining a rather elegant and luxurious air to its impeccably crafted construction
Launched in 1982 and remaining in production until around 1987
or “The Greek” is perhaps one of the most unique watches from within Patek’s storied historical offerings
Speaking to the whacky and wonderful design themes that had become common place by the late 1970s and early 1980s
Patek decided to derive inspiration from classical Greek architecture and other Greek design motifs
Boasting Corinthian columns as the branchards of its 24mm x 30mm 18kt yellow gold case
Greek key patterns in its dial and an ornate bracelet that speaks to Greek proportions and balance
the Les Grecques is one of the most esoteric
Powered by a quartz movement and featuring a salom-colored dial
3975 is watchmaking design and artistry at its very best – something Patek have been masters at for decades
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The Kokga Tbilisi Awards
is the largest and most prestigious photo competition in the country of Georgia
Not to be confused with the state of Georgia
the awards intend to link international photography to Georgia
The organizers of the Kolga Tbilisi photo competition have been hosting the presentation of the winners in Cologne
Germany as part of its intent to foster the international position of Georgia
This year’s competition was judged by an international jury: Vanessa Winship and George Georgiou
This year’s competition broke out into five categories: Documentary Series
Entry fees were used to fund for the winners’ prize fund
The winners in the first three categories received $1,500 each
and the Mobile Photo – one shot category winner received $500
Below are the winning images from each category
Photographer Emily Ducke was crowned the winner of the Documentary Series category for the series titled “The River Between.”
“The Ket River was once a major Siberian thoroughfare
it connected two of Russia’s biggest river basins
In a region where extremes of weather turn overland roads from inaccessible ice to muddy rubble and back
and where driving distances are measured in days and weeks
the corridor the Ket River created was a key resource
“But when the Trans-Siberian railway was built
west-to-east traffic on the Ket River – the farmers and traders and Tsarist troops – began to dwindle
“Fewer and fewer travelers needed the Ket
and today its banks are home to just a few scattered and solitary settlements.”
Photographer Alessio Paduano took top honors in this category for his series documenting the Coronavirus pandemic in Italy
2020 is a central date for the Italian story related to the new coronavirus
several cases of coronavirus emerged in the Lodi area of Lombardy: these are people who do not come from China
a new outbreak whose extent is still unknown
2020 the Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte
during a speech to the nation declares the entire Italian territory a “protected area”
2020 “World Health Organization” general director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced in the Geneva briefing on the coronavirus epidemic that Covid-19 “can be characterized as a pandemic situation”
“Italy remains one of the deadliest hot spots of the coronavirus pandemic
2021 more than 99,000 people have died in the country
according to Johns Hopkins University.”
The Conceptual photo category hosted two winners: Jennifer Crane for her series “Outlaw (and other failed portraits)” and Andrea Pietro Signori for “Suspended: The rural life of Syrian refugees in Marjayoun in the middle of the Lebanese crisis.”
“I consider the portrait as a trace of the body or performance for the lens
the photographic portrait has been used to honor or vilify the human subject
Initially my interest was in exploring family portraits this led to further explorations into portrait photographs in the public context such as museums
institutional archives and in the news media
In these images I pose my own body before the lens using a long exposure of several minutes rather than the conventional fraction of a second
They are made using wet collodion one of the first photographic processes that requires the light sensitive emulsion to stay wet while exposure is made resulting at times in presence of liquid residue markings that interrupt the surface of the image and draw attention to the materiality of photograph which in most portraits remains invisible
Through the creation of this fictional archive I seek to engage with issues of surveillance
authenticity and archival practices.”
“The crisis that has hit Lebanon put on knees Syrian communities
This is the case of Marjayoun where about 5000 Syrian refugees live since the war broke out in Syria in March 2011
with many children whose majority was born in Lebanon
serving as laborers in the service of Lebanese landowners
The salary ranges from 4000 to 5000LL which is gradually losing purchasing power
people are suffering the consequences of the heavy inflation
Since the revolution broke out the official exchange rate of 1$=8000 LL (variable every day) has been joined by a parallel market
“The concept involves the use of nylon used to cover furniture during the move
the political and work suspension and the expectations
Photographer Caspar Claasen took top honors in this category for his photo below titled “Grandmother’s Hug.” No additional context for the photo was provided
Photographer Zuka Kotrikadze won this category with her photo below titled “The Tsereteli Station.” No additional context for the photo was provided
To see the entire set of finalists and peruse the competition as a whole, make sure to visit the Kolga Tbilisi Photo Awards website here
Image credits: All photos individually credited and provided courtesy of the Kolga Tbilsi Photo Awards
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Enzo Catellani’s Ettorino BIG is the new addition to the lighting family of Catellani & Smith products lamps that are preceded by the development of an innovative motion system that has been patented
these new articulated lamps are characterized by a simple
rigorous design featuring surprising details
and are designed to perform specific functions
Ettorino BIG has recently been awarded a 2022 Good Design Award by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies
Also available in classic black and white finishes
the “colorful” versions of the Ettorino lamps feature an elegant combination of primary colors
The light produced by a 10W (1440 lumen) COB LED contained in the cylindrical head of Ettorino can be positioned at varying distances
clipped onto the horizontal rod of the lamp
Ettorino BIG is a large floor lamp designed for the lighting of a living room or a table of up to 200 cm long
thanks to a 15W and 2200 lumen COB LED (equivalent to a 110 W halogen bulb) and a very wide optical lens that spreads the light evenly over the surface below.With a minimum height of 210 cm
Ettorino BIG not only offers direct downward lighting
with an intensity that can be adjusted using the red button on the stem of the lamp
It also has a second light source equipped with a lens with a dichroic filter that projects “magical light” onto the ceiling in unexpected magenta tones; this function can be activated using a second
Project: Ettorino BIGDesigners: Catellani & Smith Srl.Lead Designer: Enzo CatellaniManufacturer: Catellani & Smith Srl
In the year of “Bergamo Brescia Italian Capital of Culture 2023,” the City of Clusone celebrates one of its great exponents of pictorial art
with two special initiatives dedicated to him and part of the “Cifrondi ’23” project: the monographic exhibition Antonio Cifrondi “pittor fantastico” and the first online mapping of the artist’s works that can be visited in ValSeriana
and the cities of Bergamo and Brescia.Antonio Cifrondi "pittor fantastico" the monographic exhibition dedicated to Cifrondi curated by Enrico De Pascale with Luca Brignoli
representative of the different fields practiced by the artist: sacred painting
will be open from April 15 until September 3
Cifrondi was a leading exponent of that Lombard artistic tradition
otherwise known as the “painting of reality” (whose exponents include Moretto
which has in its human and sincere adherence to the facts and people of daily life its distinctive feature
Remembered by the sources for his executive rapidity and technical virtuosity Cifrondi
who was a contemporary of Fra’ Galgario and slightly older than Giacomo Ceruti known as il Pitocchetto
produced over the course of half a century more than four hundred works (altarpieces
scenes of everyday life) partly still preserved in churches and private homes in the Bergamo and Brescia area
the two canvases with Stories of Cambises painted by the painter around 1690 return to Palazzo Marinoni Barca after exactly one century
there will be a projection on the Fanzago Astronomical Clock Tower in Piazza Orologio
of the new videomapping dedicated to the “Cifrondi ’23” project
The second project that the Municipality of Clusone dedicates to Antonio Cifrondi in 2023
with the aim of offering a widespread path of discovery and enhancement of a precious collective heritage
is the first online cataloguing of all the painter’s visitable works preserved in public places - churches
institutional buildings - of the city of Clusone
Lovere and the cities of Bergamo and Brescia
An activity realized with the contribution of Regione Lombardia and the valuable support of Main Sponsors Bettineschi s.r.l
Galleria LUISA DELLE PIANE Milan and SINERGIA S.P.A
avails itself of the collaboration of the Accademia di Belle Arti G
particularly the students of the courses in Digital Applications for Visual Arts (lecturer Agustín Sanchéz) and Engraving Techniques and Special Graphics (lecturer Cinzia Benigni)
The exhibition Antonio Cifrondi "pittor fantastico" can be visited Friday 3:30-6:30 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m.-12 p.m
Accompanying the exhibition is a catalog published by Lubrina Bramani editore
with essays and entries by Enrico De Pascale
For information: www.visitclusone.it/mostra-cifrondi
“Bergamo Brescia Italian Capital of Culture: an exciting challenge
which stimulated us to want to imagine and promote a project that would be able not only to highlight Clusone
but also to connect Bergamo and Brescia and the territory of the two provinces
This was the motion that drove the Administration in the search for an initiative capable of combining the totality of these aspects
the painter Antonio Cifrondi was identified as the figure that encapsulates the essence of the challenge we set ourselves: he is Baradello by birth
worked and spent the last years of his life in Brescia
leaving a very rich and varied pictorial production
Through a conspicuous nucleus of carefully selected works-some of which have never been exhibited before-from museum institutions and private collections in Italy and abroad
it will be possible to discover the style and work of one of the greatest artists from Cluson
was greater: to leave a mark of this initiative over time
something that would remain even after the exhibition was over
the City of Clusone has therefore shared and created a significant itinerary through the places
where it is possible to admire the works of Antonio Cifrondi: an action that looks beyond borders
uniting more than twenty municipalities and intending to return to citizens the beauty and passion for culture
as an invitation to live and experience art
knowledge and the charm of the heritage that surrounds us,” declare Massimo Morstabilini
Mayor of the City of Cl usone and Alessandra Tonsi
Events and manifestations of the City of Clusone
“The promotion of tourism in the territories and the emergence of local vocations,” explains Regional Councillor for Tourism
“is one of the main objectives of my councillorship
I am really pleased that the OgniGiorno inLombardia call represents an opportunity to enhance the artistic tradition of Lombardy through an intervention that
fits fully into the concept of the great event ”Bergamo-Brescia capitale italiana della Cultura 2023."
“The exhibition Antonio Cifrondi ”pittor fantastico" (the definition is by an 18th-century historian) comes seventy years after the celebrated exhibition I pittori della realtà in Lombardy (Milan
1953) that revealed Cifrondi to the general public
and forty from the last anthological exhibition held in Clusone (1983) in the rooms of Palazzo Marinoni Barca (now home to MAT)
It is an initiative that puts to good use the results of the most recent research on the painter-conducted for the most part by brilliant young scholars-which has helped to clarify many aspects (not all) of the artist’s boundless catalog and his biographical story
The different sections of the exhibition and the catalog restore
his multifaceted production in the areas of sacred and history painting
over a sufficiently broad chronological span - from about 1690 to 1730 - to grasp his important advances on a stylistic and technical level," comments Enrico De Pascale