Guest post by LE STYLE ET LA MATIÈRE

In February last year, Eileen Gray’s Fauteuil aux Dragons became the second highest selling piece of decorative art ever sold at auction at the “sale of the century” - the Yves Saint Laurent-Pierre Bergé collection at Christie’s. Estimated between 2 and 3 millions, it sold for 22 million euros to Parisian Gallery owner, Cheska Vallois for an unnamed client (erroneously reported as Henry Kravis). A table by Gray, Enfilade, also part of the collection, fetched a pretty penny as well. Gray is in the spotlight these days for continuing prowess in the auction house world and because of the renovation of her villa E-1027 at Rocquebrune.

Blending the rustic and the modern, the vintage and the natural, Jill has a style of her own — slightly southern American, slightly Californian with a bit of country French and splashes of Spanish…

Vytautas Laisonas, a Lithuanian painter, lives and works in Biržai, a city in northern Lithuania. His artwork is already beautifying the homes and collections in Japan, USA, Germany, Italy, France, Hungary, etc…Vytautas kindly took the time to share his thoughts, ideas, and artwork with me. I am very happy to share them with you. Enjoy!

“Creativity is the basis of self-expression. Why are some people supposedly more creative than others, and why can’t others open themselves up enough to be able to express who they are? Creation is the birth of something, and something cannot come from nothing. When someone creates something: a painting, a poem, a photograph, the creativity comes from an idea, from a feeling, from emotion, or from a combination of ideas, feelings and emotions that are somehow ‘reborn’ from all our experiences and perspectives….”

Visiting the studio of the Lithuanian graphic artist Ausra Capskyte in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Dance is one of those forms of art that does not need speaking to be understood. It is a language with the grammar and vocabluary of movement… Fused into a balanced world of its own… How much you can say just with a movement and how gracefully?!

You could only envy such breadth of imagination & creativity…

I often get asked questions about the origin of Lithuanian language and the culture itself.  Here are some interesting facts about the Balts, or the Baltic peoples, who live by the Baltic Sea.

The Baltic peoples who still exist are Latvians, Lithuanians, and Latgalians. The Prussians, Yotvingias, and Galindians are already extinct. The cultures of the Lithuanians and [...]