Peter Liversidge: Proposals for Town Hall Hotel & Apartments

Town Hall Hotel & Apartments, London

In the latest in a series of exhibitions by London East End artists on its hotel’s grounds, Town Hall Hotel & Apartments offers its visitors the opportunity to question what is possible and the invitation to participate in, or even become a patron of, the shift from abstract possibility to realization. Read the rest of this entry »

Barcelona. Let’s do it again – recycle!

We’ve all wearily entered some hardwood studded office or a lavish corporate fair, designed to encourage us to forget the grind, economic woes, to buy, invest, network, and be generally impressed.  Internationally there are innumerable fairs and office renovations every week, the set up, break down, and maybe most importantly, the waste, isn’t really something the public considers.   What happens to all those temporary walls, the miles of carpeting, the signage? Read the rest of this entry »

Get High

Lounging lakeside at Wörthersee is a must-experience-to-believe-it occasion, but sometimes you just want to get high.  Do it! A little drive to Gosdorf’s recently opened Murturm observation tower will get you there.  On the banks of the Mur River, the tower offers sweeping views over the enchanting landscape of the European Nature Reserve. Read the rest of this entry »

Singapore Profile: Daniel Boey

We at White Line Hotels know Daniel Boey as a designer behind one of the 5 Lifestyle rooms at The New Majestic in Singapore, but to a wider audience he is known as one of Asia’s most sought after fashion designers and producers.  His work reaches an international audience thorough clients such as Christian Dior, Vera Wang, Armani, Valentino, and Louis Vuitton, to name a few.  He’s been awards numerous accolades for his work in fashion, and hosts several radio segments in Singapore. Read the rest of this entry »

Basquiat. A retrospective

Basquiat – a retrospective on the occasion of a what would-have-been 50^th birthday

Foundation Beyeler, Basel

Live fast, die young, and leave a beautiful body of work. This slight twist on the phrase “live fast, die young, and leave a beautiful corpse” seems to be a ground rule for membership in the “27 Club,” the morbidly popular term for a group of artists and musicians that died at the age of 27, mostly from drug overdoses. Like Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison before him, or artist Dash Snow after him, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s untimely death secured that history could never look at him the way it can look at those who didn’t check out quite so early; the height of his cultural relevance will remain forever unsoiled by possibly questionable later creative moves or the very simple and inevitable fate of growing old. Read the rest of this entry »