Andrea Buccellati 27 November 2009, 16.00 Designers

Artistic Director & Chief Designer, Buccellati In the hands of head designer Andrea Buccellati and his team of artisans and craftspeople, precious metal is transformed: etched into brocades, festooned into rococo swi

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Martin Katz 27 November 2009, 16.00 Designers

Owner and Designer, Martin Katz The cases at Martin Katz Vintage and Contemporary Jewelers in Beverly Hills are ablaze with color: Burmese rubies, emeralds, Imperial jade and Kashmir sapphires, stones that are collected

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Kiki Smith 27 November 2009, 16.00 Artists

“I don’t try to address any issues in my work,” Kiki Smith (b. 1954) reveals. “My work has its own meandering course, and I try to follow it rather than impose any topical directive. We are certainly all affected

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MARK NORCROSS 31 January 2012, 16.00 Jeff Marinelli Philanthropist

NORCROSS FURNISHING LEADER MAKES THE WORLD A BETTER AND BEAUTIFUL PLACE Mark Norcross wants to make the world a better place. The president and CEO of Mark David, the High Point, North Carolina–based furniture compan

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Steve Wilson & Laura Lee Brown 27 November 2009, 16.00 Collectors

Owners, 21C Museum Hotel Call it a pioneer spirit of a different kind: such was the spirit from which the 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky was born. For Steve Wilson and Laura Lee Brown, building a museum-hot

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Ed Ruscha 27 November 2009, 16.00 Artists

Over the past 50 years, Edward Ruscha’s incisive portraits of American culture have transformed American painting, offering new signs, language, processes, and perspectives. The artist, born in 1937 in Omaha, Nebraska,

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Andre Sobel River of Life Foundation 02 November 2009, 16.00 Philanthropist

Giving is an art form Begin the Beguine, a Cole Porter-themed evening, held at the Peninsula,  Beverly Hills on November 15th, .

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Eli Broad 16 April 2007, 16.00 Philanthropist

Venture Philanthropist Eli Broad enters the inner sanctum of his office in an art-filled suite precisely on time for his tightly-scheduled meeting. It’s the day after the Los Angeles City Council has approved his Grand

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