One man’s mission to share with the world the fine art of cufflinks.
Each blog a different pair and each blog a different story. Read on in this series .....
Your scribe was having a lengthy discussion over many bottles of simply divine chilled Sancerre at a dinner party the other night and I reminisced over the wonderful Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City or as the locals call it "The Met". The dinner hastily convened a collective panel of self appointed "jurists" and to your scribe's amazement, we all agreed on a shortlist that was very close to that put forward by your scribe in a past post. A few favourites as put forward by the jurists were: The Hermitage, the Uffizi Gallery and Vatican Museums in Italy, the Smithsonian, The Dali Theatre Museum in Figueres in Catalonia, Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim and of course the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Banksy film "Exit through the Gift Shop" is prophetic for your scribe as he can't help himself at the Met gift store. There are any number of beautiful museum reproductions from ancient Greek and Roman statues and reliefs or sensuous Buddhas, they are a great way to embellish any living space at a reasonable price. There are scarves, neck ties and yes......cuff links. They are always faithful reproductions and if you want a Dali sculpture in your living room, you can either rob a bank or simply go to the Met gift store. And of course there are the most fabulous ancient reproductions of relics that are attached to dress cuff links.
If you are in New York City a visit to the Met is a must....its on 5th Avenue and you can't really miss it if you're wandering around the streets of New York midtown. A little gem by the way is a branch of the Met in North Manhattan called "The Cloisters" Museum and Gardens. As only a Rockefeller could do, the museum was established through the acquisition of 5 medieval European monasteries that were demounted in Europe and then rebuilt on a 5 hectare site over looking the Hudson River in North Manhattan. It was one of the greatest "release valves" available when battling the daily grind of business in Manhattan.
Today's links of course emanate from the Met gift store when I was exiting the premises. I managed to get a few wonderful gifts for people back home but also these little beauties which are Nordic gold relics reproduced as cuff links. They are plate gold and perfectly compliment a silk Salvatore Ferragamo neck tie with jaguar and palm tree motifs on a white cotton Brooks Brothers shirt.
Til Later
ONWARD
Each blog a different pair and each blog a different story. Read on in this series .....
Your scribe was having a lengthy discussion over many bottles of simply divine chilled Sancerre at a dinner party the other night and I reminisced over the wonderful Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City or as the locals call it "The Met". The dinner hastily convened a collective panel of self appointed "jurists" and to your scribe's amazement, we all agreed on a shortlist that was very close to that put forward by your scribe in a past post. A few favourites as put forward by the jurists were: The Hermitage, the Uffizi Gallery and Vatican Museums in Italy, the Smithsonian, The Dali Theatre Museum in Figueres in Catalonia, Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim and of course the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Banksy film "Exit through the Gift Shop" is prophetic for your scribe as he can't help himself at the Met gift store. There are any number of beautiful museum reproductions from ancient Greek and Roman statues and reliefs or sensuous Buddhas, they are a great way to embellish any living space at a reasonable price. There are scarves, neck ties and yes......cuff links. They are always faithful reproductions and if you want a Dali sculpture in your living room, you can either rob a bank or simply go to the Met gift store. And of course there are the most fabulous ancient reproductions of relics that are attached to dress cuff links.
If you are in New York City a visit to the Met is a must....its on 5th Avenue and you can't really miss it if you're wandering around the streets of New York midtown. A little gem by the way is a branch of the Met in North Manhattan called "The Cloisters" Museum and Gardens. As only a Rockefeller could do, the museum was established through the acquisition of 5 medieval European monasteries that were demounted in Europe and then rebuilt on a 5 hectare site over looking the Hudson River in North Manhattan. It was one of the greatest "release valves" available when battling the daily grind of business in Manhattan.
Today's links of course emanate from the Met gift store when I was exiting the premises. I managed to get a few wonderful gifts for people back home but also these little beauties which are Nordic gold relics reproduced as cuff links. They are plate gold and perfectly compliment a silk Salvatore Ferragamo neck tie with jaguar and palm tree motifs on a white cotton Brooks Brothers shirt.
Til Later
ONWARD
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