Designer Barbara Hulanicki — The Queen of Biba
Designer BARBARA HULANICKI invented Biba in London during the swinging 1960s. Biba’s fans included The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Elton John, and Brigitte Bardot. In Miami Beach in the 1980s, Hulanicki reimagined several Art Deco hotels and “Woody’s” for the Stone’s Ronnie Woods.
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Filmmaker Phil Grabsky Presents the Arts
PHIL GRABSKY is a BAFTA-winning British documentary filmmaker who has received multiple awards for his directing, writing, producing and cinematography.
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Author Nicholas Griffin: From Ping Pong to Jai Alai
NICHOLAS GRIFFIN: “I was born in London, left when I was 18, spent the next twenty years in New York and moved to Miami in the summer of 2013. I’ve written for newspapers, magazines, film and TV folks. But books, well, I like the books the best. I’ve got an English father, an American mother, a Venezuelan wife, a surfing son, a skateboarding daughter and a very old dog from New Jersey.”
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Michele Oka Doner: A Woman of Nature
MICHELE OKA DONER is an internationally renowned artist whose career spans four decades. The breadth of her artistic production encompasses sculpture, furniture, jewelry, public art, functional objects, video, as well as costume and set design. Whether large scale architectural objects or intimately scaled objects, Oka Doner’s work is fueled by a lifelong study and appreciation of the natural world, from which she derives her formal vocabulary.
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Michele Oka Doner: A Woman of Nature.
MICHELE OKA DONER is an internationally renowned artist whose career spans four decades. The breadth of her artistic production encompasses sculpture, furniture, jewelry, public art, functional objects, video, as well as costume and set design. Whether large scale architectural objects or intimately scaled objects, Oka Doner’s work is fueled by a lifelong study and appreciation of the natural world, from which she derives her formal vocabulary.
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