Archive for the 'Art' Category

The fact that it is winter hasn’t had any noticeable effect on Jávea’s cultural programme. February’s schedule looks as though it will be as busy as ever, with plenty for residents to enjoy.

On Sunday February 5th and Monday February 6th the Sete Segell Film Club will show the 2011 film, The Power of Women, a collaboration between Belgian, Italian and French investors. Sunday February 12th and Monday 13th features the American film, Drive, while Sunday 19th and Monday 20th is devoted to Le Havre, a French film first released in 2011. February’s final showings will be screened on Sunday 26th and Monday 27th with the 2011 German film, Almanya-Wilkommen in Deutschland, which focuses on the experience of Turkish immigrants in the 1960s.

Continue reading…Plenty to enjoy during February in Jávea…

The name Carl Fabergé still creates a buzz in the world of luxury goods today, so the news that this famous company was to open new stores in London and New York soon attracted the interest of fine jewellery lovers the world over.

The special seasonal lilac façade of the new London store has been cleverly designed to evoke the characteristic Fabergé look, which was created with a combination of enamel and the guilloche technique for which Carl Fabergé was rightly famous. The first Fabergé store in London opened in 1906 at 48 Dover Street, before moving to 173 Bond Street – and the new shop (at 14A Grafton Street in Mayfair) is almost exactly halfway between those two original locations.

Continue reading…Fabergé returns to London’s Mayfair and Madison Avenue, New York…

The development of the internet has had a profound effect on almost all of us, with search engines such as Google and Yahoo allowing us instantly to access information on any topic that captures our imagination, however obscure.

While this has undoubtedly helped to make the lives of individuals more interesting, the changes wrought by constant connection to the World Wide Web have had an even more profound effect on companies’ marketing strategies.

Continue reading…Rimontgó’s Top Ten blogs make interesting reading…

In a ceremony held on Friday 21^st October in Oviedo, the Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen accepted his Prince of Asturias Award for Letters.

Cohen – an accomplished poet and novelist, although best known for his melancholic yet humorous songs – used his acceptance speech as a platform from which to praise Spain’s extraordinarily rich cultural life.

Continue reading…Leonard Cohen accepts the Prince of Asturias Award…

Students, and indeed lovers of architecture, will find familiar elements in this splendid villa in Cantabria, Northern Spain, for its design and dressing is inspired by an era dominated by some of the greatest architects of the modern era.

Continue reading…Fine example of American Modern Style in Spain…

Gala evenings are traditionally starry, celebrity studded events, but none so much as the launch of Montblanc’s extraordinary ‘Collection Princesse Grace de Monaco’.

Under the patronage of Princess Grace’s son, HSH Prince Albert of Monaco, the unveiling of Montblanc’s latest range of jewellery, watches and pens was transformed by a cavalcade of international celebrities who all gathered at Monte Carlo’s famous Opera Garnier to pay tribute to someone who was not only the monarch of this principality, but a Hollywood film legend.

Continue reading…Montblanc launches its Princess Grace of Monaco collection in fine style…

It’s all happening in Jávea this month! Whether you enjoy culture and history or would prefer to be out and about, there will be something to suit you in Jávea and its environs.

El Seté Segell Cinema Club will be screening five very different films: Silencio de Amor, La Boda de Mi Mejor Amiga, Cena de Amigos, El Hombre de al Lado and Gianni y Sus Mujeres, all of which will attract a very different audience. While La Boda de Mi Mejor Amiga (My Best Friend’s Wedding) is a typically frothy Hollywood concoction, the other four films demonstrate the best of French, Argentinean and Italian contemporary film.

Continue reading…October is a busy month in Jávea…