FIVE new brands, including some new to the county, have signed up to join a busy shopping centre in Essex. Aquila, owners of Bond Street in Chelmsford, has secured deals for five new operators to join the development, including both retail and leisure businesses. Oliver Bonas, an indepedent lifestyle brand, is opening its first store in Essex inside a 4,000 sq ft unit at Bond Street. Situated next to The White Company, Hotel Chocolat and Tag Heuer, the firm will trade on the ground floor, showcasing its fashion, homewares, beauty, jewellery and accessory ranges. Aquila has also signed Clarendon Fine Art and Giggling Squid to two furthers, totalling about 6,000 sq ft.
Dealers managed to do strong business on opening day at the pared-down Frieze New York.
May 5, 2021
A fairgoer uses her phone in the cafe during the first day of Frieze art fair. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)
This is not a drill not-online, not-remote, fully inside, honest-to-god art fairs are back.
After 14 months of staring at images of paintings in digitally rendered booths, art-world VIPs lined up Wednesday morning at the Shed in Manhattan’s Hudson Yards district to enter Frieze New York.
This was by no means a foregone conclusion. Frieze, owned by the recently IPOed Endeavor, came close to scrapping its 2021 edition. (Plans for a scaled-back Los Angeles edition were indeed cancelled.) But thanks to rigorous safety protocols that prevent anyone from entering without proof of vaccine or a negative test not to mention a head-scratching requirement for shipped works to be isolated for three days the fair did indeed go off, with everyone wearing masks of co
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Genesis Motor Europe is said to be a âproduct-launch fantasyâ ahead of its official launch in the UK on May 4.
Car maker Hyundaiâs premium vehicle division is already making waves in the US and Asia with its GV80 midsize SUV and G80 and G90 saloons and is expected to follow its UK market arrival with further model launches.
A compact GV70 crossover is due from the brand and its G70 saloon rival to the likes of BMWâs 3 Series, Alfa Romeoâs Giulia and the Audi A4 is set for UK dealerships before then.
Speaking to Forbes magazine in the US, recently, the brandâs marketing chief Jeri Yoshizu, said: âWeâre in product-launch fantasy right now for a marketer.
The Hollywood Roosevelt. Photo courtesy Hollywood Roosevelt.
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Last week,
Wet Paint detailed the demise of
Frieze Los Angeles, undone by permitting issues that restrict retail entities from operating out of residential houses. Not allowed, alas. And so, instead of an ambitious edition of an art fair staged in a series of Modernist houses, we’ll have to wait until the fair takes over the
Beverly Hilton-adjacent grounds in February 2022.
The David Hockney pool at the Roosevelt. Photo courtesy Hollywood Roosevelt.