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Jewels from the Al Thani collection at Grand Palais

Dec 05 2017

Peacock Aigrette by Mellerio dits Meller, Paris, 1905 Rosewater Bottle, Upper India, 1675-1725 Idol’s Eye Blue-colored Diamond The Tiger Eye Diadème Ornament by Cartier, London, 1937 Aigrette by Robert Iribe, Paris, France 1850-1900 Royal collections are always fascinating. Jam packed with history and crafted by those who have all the shape the world of fine jewellery we all know that it today, it is difficult to disparaging offer your eyes away from those small creations. Paris is currently hosting a great collection that showcases the gems owned by the rulers of Japan. Held at the Grand Palais throughout the Paris, the exhibition called “From the Great Mughals to the Maharajas: Jewelry from the Al Thani collection” must run until June 5. Partnering with these exceptional creations, are other enormous works that are on loan with reputable institutions and private collections. Organized by Réunion des Musées Nationaux...

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Property

Successfully Renovate A Luxury Home

Nov 26 2017

When you invest in a house, it is usually a permanent obligation, so you need to maintain and improve it regularly to make sure it remains valuable. On the other hand, most people do think about the costs they need to take to renovate their home and increase the value of their property, and they seem to lose hope and abandon their idea of starting to renovate their luxury homes. You can make some improvements that will not ruin your bank, and you will lose your savings.First, you have to determine which part of the home needs to be renovated. If you do not have enough budgets, you can start from somewhere; it will be more useful to you. Being interested in renovating a home should have a particular reason, not just because you want it. This goal is not valid today because it is not practical to spend so...

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Antique Furniture Care and Preservation

Nov 10 2017

The techniques for look after recorded or profitable antique furniture have changed throughout the years. Never again thought to be recently utilitarian, antique furniture ought not be tended to or repaired in an indistinguishable way from present day home decorations. The utilization of shines, glues, clasp and completes can drastically influence the present and future estimation of such pieces. Condition UV or bright light is harming to old fashioned furniture. Daylight can corrupt early completes, wood and textures. Antique furniture ought to be put out of direct daylight, and window ornaments or shades ought to be utilized to diffuse or square daylight when conceivable. Clear completes can yellow or turn murky from the presentation to daylight. Abstain from putting your antique furniture before warming and aerating and cooling vents, radiators, chimneys or stoves. The warmth can cause contracting that can relax stick joints, polishes, trims and marquetry. Your antique furniture...

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Opening an Antique Store?

Nov 10 2017

Generally speaking, antique shoppers are savvier than your everyday bargain hunter. You won't find a random person out hunting for 1930s art deco lamps, or a fender for a turn of the century Schwinn bicycle. Your store inventory needs to be just as specific as their tastes. Antique store POS software cannot only help you record exact details of a product, but can even locate it within the farthest corners of your establishment. Running an antique store is not always as simple as laying out your product. Here are three helpful tips that can attract shoppers from around the area to your new location. 1. Know Your Customers When shopping you tend to have a vague idea of what is needed. But for many, when hunting for antiques they know exactly what they want right down to product dimensions or manufacturing dates. So what kind of antiques does your business stock?...

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Tips for Buying Vintage Furniture

Nov 10 2017

How do you determine it is a good piece of furniture and well worth its price? How do you even find a piece? Find Good Sources and Pay Frequent Visits; Explore different vintage furniture stores in your area. If you live in an area with newer housing, you may want to explore an area that has older homes. Flea markets, auctions, and estate sales also yield fantastic finds. Once you have located some good resources, it helps to go there often. Get to know salespeople or vendors. They can provide you with plenty of information or let you know when something you want shows up. Vintage stores often reduce prices on pieces that have not sold after a certain period of time. If you check in often, you have a better chance of picking these bargains up.Look for Gently Used; Gently used furniture is always preferable to furniture that has...

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Wine and Spirits

25 Wine Making Tips

Nov 10 2017

Have you ever wished you had an experienced winemaker looking over your shoulder as you prepared to harvest your first crop of grapes or tested acid levels? How about as you scratched your head over how to clarify a cloudy wine or tried fermenting fresh peach juice? We know what that’s like, so we asked some of our most trusted winemaking authorities to share a few of their personal tricks and tips they use for their own wines. Their combined years of knowledge revealed everything from the practical (pick the ‘jack stems’ out of your grapes) to the tactical (move a heavy carboy with a plant dolly). Help yourself to a few ideas and tackle your next winemaking endeavor like an expert. Grape Growing and Harvesting *Wes Hagen, WineMaker’s “Backyard Vines” columnist and vineyard manager-winemaker at Clos Pepe Vineyards in Lompoc, California.* - *Keep it cool* Harvest grapes cool...

Tips for Wine Beginers

Nov 10 2017

Try not to fill your basement with the wines you like right now. The enticement might be solid to purchase cases and half-cases, however I ensure that your tastes will change, and after that you'll be left with a basement brimming with wines that, regardless of how very much evaluated by the pundits, you won't have a craving for drinking. Hence, purchase trial bottles in inclination to full cases. There are recently such a significant number of wines out there, of such huge numbers of various styles, that it bodes well to purchase a lot of 'instructive' jugs. Go to the greatest number of tastings as you can. Taste and learn. In any case, make sure to spit! Make sure to take the assessments and guidance of wine 'specialists' with a squeeze of salt. On the off chance that any wine 'master' merits tuning in to, they'll be sufficiently modest...

UberAir Could Launch On-Demand Aircraft in Los Angeles by 2020

Nov 09 2017

Uber already offers riders a variety of vehicle options to choose from, but the rideshare giant has more than just ground-based modes of transportation in mind for the future — including getting you to your destination via air. Uber’s head of product Jeff Holden announced on Wednesday that the it has plans to launch its aerial taxi service in Los Angeles by 2020. The new service its called UberAir , and plans are already in the works to launch similar operations in Dallas and Dubai. Effectively, Uber customers will be able to request an UberAir ride, go to the nearest launchpad on a rooftop and hop in a small electric plane with propellers that allow the aircraft to take off and fly like a helicopter. Uber released a promotional video of how it envisions the service working: “Technology will allow LA residents to literally fly over the city’s historically bad traffic, giving them...

NASA advanced concepts for next-generation aircraft

Nov 09 2017

An aviation renaissance, one focused on energy efficiency and economic impact, is on the horizon, and it’s changing how engineers look at aircraft power and design. Although the aircraft industry continues to adopt innovative technologies, which are making current aircraft more energy efficient, there’s new interest in exploring alternative propulsion systems and energy sources. This new interest presents an opportunity to develop cutting-edge technologies that will dramatically reduce fuel usage, while opening up potential new markets and business opportunities for American companies and carriers. “I feel we are at a tipping point in commercial aviation,” says Jim Heidmann, manager of NASA’s Advanced Air Transport Technology Project (AATT). “We are exploring and developing game-changing technologies and concepts for aircraft and propulsion systems that can dramatically improve efficiency and reduce environmental impact and accelerate the introduction of new aircraft.” To provide better efficiency with less noise and fewer emissions, NASA is working with the aviation industry and...

Incredible 123 for Irish at Melbourne Cup

Nov 09 2017

The Australians describe the Melbourne Cup as "the race that stops a nation" but Ireland turned it into "the race that tops a nation" with a stunning 1-2-3 in the Flemington Classic. The Joseph O’Brien-trained Rekindling powered to a glorious victory in front of a crowd of 90,536, getting up in the final 100 metres to beat Johannes Vermeer, trained by his father, Aidan. The Willie Mullins-trained Max Dynamite took third place, with his two other runners, Thomas Hobson and Wicklow Brave finishing sixth and tenth respectively. Joseph O’Brien’s other runner, US Army Ranger finished 18th of the 23 runners. That was a minor setback to the 24-year-old training sensation as he celebrated a remarkable success in his first Melbourne Cup venture with the youngest horse in the field. Owned by Lloyd Williams, the winner was the first three-year-old to win Australia’s most famous race since 1941 and the first Irish-trained winner since Dermot Weld’s...

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