The Barefoot Contessa

7 May, 2014
Year: 1954. Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Stars: Ava Gardner (María Vargas). Humphrey Bogart (Harry Dawes). Edmond O´Brien (Oscar Muldoon). Rossano (...)

Men fashion

5 May, 2014
  Each season we hear the same: the masculine style is a trend. And it is a trend indeed. We’ve been hearing this year after year, and it’s always (...)

Philippe Halsman

28 April, 2014
This month the protagonist has been Sylvia Pares, from El Objetivo Magico. She chose Philippe Halsman as our master to copy in the photographic proyect (...)

Vera Cruz

23 April, 2014
Year: 1954. Director: Robert Aldrich. Stars: Gary Cooper (Benjamin Trane). Burt Lancaster (JoeErin). Denise Darcel (Condesa Marie Duvarre). Cesar Romero (...)

How to Marry a Millionaire

16 April, 2014
Year: 1953. Director: Jean Negulesco. Stars: Marilyn Monroe (PolaDebovoise). Betty Grable (Loco Dempsey). Lauren Bacall (Schatze Page). David Wayne (Freddie (...)

With G for “Gemelos” (Cufflinks)

14 April, 2014
Cufflink: A fastener made with two pieces linked to a little rod or through a small chain. It’s used to close the cuffs in a shirt. The cufflinks are (...)

Mazer & Company Inc.

7 April, 2014
In the very early years of the 20th Century, the brothers Mazer – Joseph and Louis- began running a jewelry business in Philadelphia. It was 1917. After (...)

The Esotericism in Sandro Botticelli´s la Primavera

1 April, 2014
This artwork introduces us in the fascinating world of the Italian Renaissance. Towards the end of the 15th Century, Florence’s cultural and scientific (...)

With “F”: for “Filigree”

31 March, 2014
The word filigree comes from the latin filum, which means “thread”, and “, so a filigree is literally a granulated thread. However it is in fact (...)

Sarah Moon

24 March, 2014
I guess you’ve never heard of her before but let me give you a few spots, show you some of her photos and you’ll soon realize you did know her work. (...)