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Bid on a Banksy once owned by singer Robbie Williams

To be auctioned by Sotheby’s, the three works – including Girl with Balloon – are valued at £10m

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One of Banksy’s Most Famous Paintings Will Be Sold as 10,000 NFTs—for $1,500 Each

The famous painting, owned by NFT company Particle, will offer unique sections of the piece from January 10-14.

How Jeff Koons Built the Art World’s Most Expensive Shrine to Middle-Class Taste

With new shows in Italy and Qatar extending into 2022, the world's most expensive living artist isn't slowing down.

Why art – whether on canvas, stone or pixels – will never die

TZ APAC’s Head of Growth, David Tng, on how NFT generative art is both a return to the old and a push for the new in the world of art.

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Why art – whether on canvas, stone or pixels – will never die

TZ APAC’s Head of Growth, David Tng, on how NFT generative art is both a return to the old and a push for the new in the world of art.

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Banksy’s self-destructing artwork Love is in the Bin sells for record US$25 million

As Chaumet's CEO Jean-Marc Mansvelt tells us, bringing the house's 240-year heritage into the modern era is an immense task that amounts to a "daily obsession". But if the new pieces in the Chaumet JosĂŠphine collection are anything to go by, the Place VendĂ´me stalwart is heading in the right direction.

Chaumet JosĂŠphine collection
Chaumet JosĂŠphine collection

What kind of woman today does the JosĂŠphine collection appeal to?

First, it’s about a woman with a certain character. Because when you choose to wear a tiara on your finger, you’re making a choice of distinction, a choice of character. You’re sending a message to say you’re not like everyone else and you have a certain strength and a certain personality. But also a sense of virtuosity, grace and beauty, because it’s not for women who want to be too provocative.

It’s a way to set your personality. And then of course, there are two major reasons to become a client of Joséphine. On one side, it remains one of the favourite pieces chosen for a bridal purpose. It’s connected to the initial history of Chaumet, the history of the power and love between Napoleon and Joséphine. And Napoleon is known everywhere, that’s incredible. There’s another type of client on the other side of the connection with the pearls, the coloured stones, something a bit easier and more accessible.

This year, Chaumet's creations have also incorporated sleeker, more modern takes on the tiara. Can you tell us a bit about the new high jewellery?

After many creations that were a bit more tiara-like, a bit more decorative, more visible, more baroque in a certain way, we wanted to enrich the collection with new ways to mix and match, and to go for designs that were slicker, with a more minimalist approach, because that’s also the style of today. We have a feeling that clients today are a little more understated, and we have the capacity to create beauty through a fine line, rather than an accumulation. So one of our high- jewellery pieces, which is sort of a V with a stone in suspension, doesn’t shout about its design. It’s all about balance.

Tiara set in the Chaumet JosĂŠphine collection
Tiara set in the Chaumet JosĂŠphine collection

This year is the 10th anniversary of the JosĂŠphine collection...

But we don’t mark it that way for two reasons. I always feel that if you start doing anniversaries for everything, then at the end, what’s the meaning in it? Last year, when we did the 240 years of Chaumet, that was slightly different. For Chaumet, our heritage is much longer than a decade, it’s about centuries. Instead, this year, we’re celebrating our connection with the 200th anniversary of the death of Napoleon, which is significant in Europe and in France. We’ve done an exhibition at 12 Place Vendôme that was open to the public which tells the love story of Napoleon and Josephine through 150 different objects, beautiful loans from museums and private owners.

Which piece proved to be the most challenging piece in the collection?

The most discussed and the most debated one was the watch. Because we’re clearly a jeweller, and we’ve focused all our efforts and attention on jewellery. But since a few years ago, we’ve reassessed and repositioned what watches mean for Chaumet. It’s true that with the business of watches within Chaumet, we’ve really tried to be coherent with what the story of watchmaking for Chaumet is as a jeweller. One of our challenges was to look at the market – in the market, 90 percent of watches are round – and nobody’s waiting for Chaumet to create a round watch, because we already have thousands of beautiful options on the market.

We decided on a shaped watch, and it wasn’t very difficult to settle on the pear shape, like an illusion of a diamond. We also faceted the watch’s dial.

The new JosĂŠphine watch takes inspiration from the pear-shaped diamond
The new JosĂŠphine watch takes inspiration from the pear-shaped diamond

How do you balance 240 years of heritage behind a brand and stay relevant at the same time?

That’s really the obsession every single day. How do we continue the narrative, the link to the story? Since the pandemic, we’ve seen clients choose Chaumet because there’s longevity. And so it becomes a daily obsession of ours to convey this message to our clients through different means, including the digital approach, so we can speak to the needs of our audience today. We also go through the traditional channels and have books and exhibitions. I regularly write down on paper in two columns: on one side, how much do we tell the story of Chaumet, and on the other, how do we take a contemporary approach, either through the narrative or through using different tools? I take a step back and ask myself is there a balance? If we’re going too much in one direction, maybe it’s time to rebalance. It’s in everything we do.

Jean-Marc Mansvelt
Jean-Marc Mansvelt

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Banksy’s “Love is in the Bin” is His Most Expensive Work

Banksy caused a major shock three years ago when one of his paintings were sold in an auction, as he instantly transformed it into another work of art. Now, that artwork is his most expensive work to date.

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Banksy’s Infamous ‘Self-Destructing’ Painting Just Sold for a Record $25.4 Million

The gavel price for "Love is in the Bin" beat out the $23 million his painting "Game Changer" sold for back in March.

Unorthorized Banksy Exhibition Is a Light Too Light on Original Works

An unauthorized Banksy exhibition that has attracted over 1 million visitors since it began touring in 2016 has come under fire for being too light on actual Banksy works. Organizers have agreed to refund visitors who no longer wish to attend the Seoul presentation of “The Art of Banksy: Without Limits” following an outcry over the lack of original works. https://www.instagram.com/p/CTB1ewhH4TK/ […]

Banksy Is Covering England’s East Coast With Street Art as Part of His ‘Great British Spraycation’

The reclusive artist has recently tagged works in Great Yarmouth, Gorleston and beyond.

Watch Banksy’s ‘Great British Spraycation’

Banksy has revealed some of the tricks of the street art trade in a new Instagram post filmed across seaside towns in Eastern England. The “A Great British Spraycation” shows Banksy touring in a  motorhome, and spraypainting murals in a hoodie, behind a colorful screen. https://www.instagram.com/p/CShWMUwFKkI/ Four murals have been discovered in Lowestoft, including a boy making a […]

NFT Based on Banksy’s ‘Spike,’ Minted Without Artist’s Involvement, Sells for Over $150,000

Token was created and sold by the tenor Vittorio Grigòlo, who co-founded the new NFT platform, Valuart
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