Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Weimar marks Bauhaus centenary

    Weimar marks Bauhaus centenary

    Walter Gropius founded the famous German art movement known as Bauhaus not in Berlin, as many people think, but in Weimer, a city some three hours drive to the south west. The original Bauhaus school in Weimar closed in 1925 and a second school opened in Dessau which also closed after a few years. The […]

  • New wave art

    New wave art

    The latest Knight Frank Weath Report, published in March, has some generalised data on one of the assets most prized by High Net Worths – yachts: how many, where they sail and so on. Unlike cars, yachts are not on the asset value list Objects of Desire because – presumably – they lose value. They […]

  • Best exhibitions in Europe for spring 2019

    Best exhibitions in Europe for spring 2019

    Harald Sohlberg: Painting Norway One of Norway’s greatest and most original landscape artists, Harald Sohlberg, finally gets a show in the UK. Born in 1869, he was a close contemporary of Edvard Munch (The Scream) and like Munch, outside the mainstream of contemporary art. The label of symbolist has fallen on Sohlberg’s shoulders however much […]

  • Why is Sardinia a Blue Zone dream?

    Why is Sardinia a Blue Zone dream?

    MENTION Sardinia and most people will automatically respond with: “have you been to Porto Cervo?” This is the superyacht marina on the Costa Smeralda developed by the Aga Khan back in the 1960s and a magnet ever since for celebrities of all descriptions from the Clooneys to Barack Obama. Embed from Getty Images But for […]

  • Manhattan’s boardrooms changing into bedrooms

    Manhattan’s boardrooms changing into bedrooms

    “Alexander Hamilton must be turning in his grave, ” commented a local shopkeeper, referring to the father of American banking as a series of landmark buildings in New York are converted into luxury apartments. But would he? It’s more likely that the visionary statesman – whose colourful life is celebrated in the rap musical Hamilton […]

  • Frieze Frames: diversity and restraint mark 2018 art fair

    Frieze Frames: diversity and restraint mark 2018 art fair

    Revolver Galerie, Buenos Aires, Lima – one of the booths in the Focus section – presented an installation piece by Andrea Galvani. Slowly gyrating around a series of white neon mathematical equations, the performers hummed haunting acapella harmonies as they moved across the stand. It was as if the sounds of the universe, represented by […]

  • Ringing the changes

    Ringing the changes

    A new bronze bell has been installed above the chapel at Qatari Diar’s Chelsea Barracks development, putting the finishing touch to an extensive refurbishment programme. The two year project has involving a host of British artisans including lime plasterers, fresco painters, tilers and stained glass experts. The new bronze bell, an exact replica of the […]

  • ON A ROLL

    ON A ROLL

    Wallpaper has made a huge comeback in interior design.

  • Pearls of Montenegro’s property market

    Pearls of Montenegro’s property market

    I remember my first visit to Montenegro in 2006 as a mixture of awe at the landscape and horror at the concrete tangle of Herceg Novi, the border town with Croatia. There were no direct flights at that time so you arrived in Dubrovnik and crawled along the coastline on a terrible road drinking in […]

  • Enjoy barefoot luxury in Sardinia

    Enjoy barefoot luxury in Sardinia

    The north-east corner of Sardinia was almost unknown until the 1960s when the Aga Khan came here and began to develop luxury hotels. Now almost everyone associates Sardinia with the Costa Smeralda, Porto Cervo, super yachts and celebrities. But there’s another side to the Gallura region. Indeed much of it remains wild and uncultivated and […]

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