Think edgy, hip and accessible. Asian Art is in high demand from Singapore to New York. It’s the trendiest modern-art niche en ce moment.  And no, we are not talking Vietnamese knock-off artists and their paint-by-number budha heads.

Style Clinic by Astin Brown Inc , invites you to an Asian Artscene talk with Singaporean, Parveen Sandhu (PhD).  She is a contemporary South  Asian Art Consultant for private and  corporate collectors. 

She will artspeak (minus the bourgeois art snob rhetoric) about the momentum of South Asian Art, the artists - their graphically bold and finally executed subjects, and importantly, ‘the how to’s’ of weaving asian art (a symbol of worldliness) into the global nomad’s space.
Get ready to be installed with a new way of looking  at the region and the story of those who paint it.  Expect a sprawling, colourful and compelling reflection of the state of the art in South Asia.

Join us for a wickedly colourful sampling of Nonya Kuih, Javanesse roasted coffee and regional leaf teas.
  
Our Host:
Gajah Gallery
MICA Building
140 Hill St, #01/08
 
10am-Noon
Choose a Clinic    - Tues 22 or  Wed 23  or Thurs 24  May 2007
 
Fee $s 48.00*
 
RSVP info@styleclinicab.com
 

* This is a not-for-profit Home Style Clinic, Parveen Sandhu and Gajah Gallery support our fundraising commitment to the campaign “Stopping Violence Against Women, in Pakistan” and the NGO The Progressive Womens Association, Pakistan. For this event, Parveen Sandhu is kindly donated her per head facilitation fee of $ 40 .

We love the idea of seasonal wardrobes, but having them in different countries or states well thats sheer decadence of the most fabulous kind. (Not your old gear that still hangs in your childhood bedroom, & only makes a comeback during a home visit).

Well the news in from self storage centre Tankar Storage (Southern Highlands, Australia) is they have had enough requests from Australians living abroad and city folk with an ‘oh so chic’ country pad - for  ‘a small space to hang their transit wardrobe’ that they thought it was time to act and follow the lead of one of their storage clients. 

So here’s the scoop. A couple of years ago, a global nomad and long term storer, insisted on redorating his storage space (which incidentaly he has 3, - for excess cars, tired-of-at- the-moment furniture and more) into a luxury Walk-in Robe for his winter and rotating shirt collection. The amused vendors of this fine storage solution must have told a few of their clients and other best dressed, because over the past 7 months they have retro-fitted 5 of their smallest dust free cells into camphor infused closets. And who is asking for these lux wardobe extensions inclusive of full length mirror? Welcome to 2007 - they are preened straight up and down men!

Should we be using this information to predict the next big trend in fashionable living? Because I wouldn’t mind some of that space myself, for my shoes at least.

Whether you’re looking for a really awesome gift or just something for yourself, this UK site offers some of the coolest digital photo driven items we’ve come across yet. Any digital image can be turned into artwork by printing it on stretched canvas. Photo-Canvas allows users to tweak original images as well, with options ranging from the standard black and white or sepia tone choices, to more dramatic changes like Lichtenstein, Warhol, and action comic versions. Images can also be recreated on room divider screens, wallpaper, and even roller blinds (leave out the photo totes too passe Anya Hindmarch). It’s a great way to bringing pictures to life… especially if you are anything like us with stored digital pictures taking up space like a draw full of prints waiting to go into the album.

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