Champagne Baggage

A look through the most beautiful and distorted rose colored lens. . .providing insight on art, design, fashion, tasty-bits, social events, people, and anything that fuels a bubbly-cultured-good time and remember to pour your champagne at a slight slant.
-ZW

Monday, January 28

Kids+chalk+cheese sticks+candles+incense=Frieke Janssen’s series “Smoking Kids”… .

 

yes.

| Posted at 9:37am

Thursday, September 20

“Genetic Portraits”, Ulric Collette

© Ulric Collette. Tous droits réservés 2008-2010


A little bit of you with a dash of me… 



(Source: genetic.ulriccollette.com)

| Posted at 3:18pm

Sunday, July 15

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Amelia Fais Harnas, Wine Stain Art…

The creation of an entire new medium, just think about all the differnet shades of pigmentation…the mind COULD WONDER FOR HOURS.


(Cheers and Happy Sunday…)

| Posted at 4:20am

Friday, October 21

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Sunday, October 9

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Moi. Summer 2011

Moi.

Summer 2011

| Posted at 12:12am

Tuesday, September 20

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11 Million Dollar MISTAKE! What was thought to be a Xu Beihong (a Chinese Modern Master) has been declared a fake. The painting was sold last June at Beijing Jiuge International Auction House for RMB 72.8 million (USD $11.4 million) has been traced back to an art student who created the work during a “class exercise” in 1983.  To make matters even more embarrassing for the auction house, not to mention the international art community as a whole,  Beihong ranked number six on Artprice’s top ten artists by auction value in 2010, with sales totaling $176.3 million-one would think the experets would have spotted this fake from across the room. When buying at auction the BUYER MUST PRACTICE DUE DILIGENCE, it is the BUYER’S RESPONSIBILITY to be educated about their own purchase. Nothing is set in stone at auction. In the US we have more rights to a refund if enough evidence is present to prove authenticity is fradualant, but the expense of such research is the buyer’s responsibility.  LESSON: DO YOUR HOMEWORK BEFORE YOU BUY-11.4 million dollar mistake. -ARTINFO full article

11 Million Dollar MISTAKE!

What was thought to be a Xu Beihong (a Chinese Modern Master) has been declared a fake. The painting was sold last June at Beijing Jiuge International Auction House for RMB 72.8 million (USD $11.4 million) has been traced back to an art student who created the work during a “class exercise” in 1983. 

To make matters even more embarrassing for the auction house, not to mention the international art community as a whole,  Beihong ranked number six on Artprice’s top ten artists by auction value in 2010, with sales totaling $176.3 million-one would think the experets would have spotted this fake from across the room.

When buying at auction the BUYER MUST PRACTICE DUE DILIGENCE, it is the BUYER’S RESPONSIBILITY to be educated about their own purchase. Nothing is set in stone at auction. In the US we have more rights to a refund if enough evidence is present to prove authenticity is fradualant, but the expense of such research is the buyer’s responsibility. 

LESSON: DO YOUR HOMEWORK BEFORE YOU BUY-11.4 million dollar mistake.

-ARTINFO full article

| Posted at 3:46pm

Tuesday, April 26

Hello St. Barths… in a state of pure beauty.

Hello St. Barths… in a state of pure beauty.

| Posted at 5:16pm

Thursday, April 7

A narcissistic bubbly celebration of 100 posts! I love Champagne Baggage for so many reasons, let the beauty continue to pour…a toast to art, fashion, culture, and New York City-my love to all… I will take another Mr. Barkeep… let the rounds of effervescent life continue to flow! -ZW

A narcissistic bubbly celebration of 100 posts!

I love Champagne Baggage for so many reasons, let the beauty continue to pour…a toast to art, fashion, culture, and New York City-my love to all… I will take another Mr. Barkeep… let the rounds of effervescent life continue to flow!

-ZW

| Posted at 3:07pm