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The London Frieze Art Fair was full with richly stocked booths, exhibitions, opening parties and other festivities.
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The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2008, in England is now open to the public. The spectacular structure – designed and engineered in collaboration with Arup.The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion is one of the most anticipated events in the international design calendar.
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Durley House is located at Sloane Street in Chelsea and Knightsbridge. The house is just stroll away from Hyde Park, Harrods and King’s Road. Durley House has 11 suites rooms, each one very stylished, elegantly furnished with antiques and provides a soothing atmosphere right in the heart of vibrant London.
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Casten Holler is visual spectacle of watching people sliding and ‘inner spectacle’ experienced by the sliders themselves, the state of simultaneous delight and anxity that you enter as you descend. Höller has installed six smaller slides in other galleries and museums, but the cavernous space of the Turbine Hall offers a unique setting in which to extend his vision.
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Hotel Metropolitan in London is a new kind of a hotel, very light and pompous.The hotel is located at the Hyde Park Corner end of Park Line, overlooking Hyde Park, with walking distance of Piccadilly, Knightsbridge and the West End.
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Coinciding with the 5th Anniversary of the brand, CK ( Checkland Kindleysides ) created the first Sony Ericsson store in London. The concept combines simple architectural lines with curvaceous, organic forms to create an environment that allows their products to be conveyed with absolute clarity. Spanning the entire length of the store is the ‘infinity’ bar; a sculpted demonstration and service area filled with their entire range of handsets. All phone displayed are live and connected, willing the consumer to test, try and immerse themselves with their offer. Providing a striking burst of color against this pure backdrop, the color changing fascia echoes the Sony Ericsson’s brand palette and changes in sequence with lighting used in the store .

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The Royal Academy of Arts in London, which had been founded in 1768, was at the very center of Victorian art in Britain. Its annual Exhibition of the Work of Living Artists (known from the 1870s simply as the Summer Exhibition) was not only the premier showcase for new artwork and a principal means of bringing together artist, purchaser and art dealer, but was both an important part of the upper-class social calendar and a popular attraction, open to everybody who could afford the shilling entrance fee. The Royal Academy was, and remains, a self-governing and self-funded private body. Its exclusiveness and innate conservatism attracted criticism throughout the century, but its constitution and practices remained virtually unchanged into the 20th century and formed the background to the success of the vast majority of the well-known artists of the per.
The famous for the summer exhibition and for the many major loan exhibitions, acclaimed both in Britain and overseas. But exhibitions include everything from recent fashion and photography retrospectives to much broader collections of post-18th century art, and immaculately researched explorations of historical cultures.
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