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Emirates 24/7
14-04-2025
- Lifestyle
- Emirates 24/7
Interiors UAE Unveils Exclusive Michael Amini 'Villa Cherie' Collection: A Romantic Reimagination of Classic European Design
Interiors UAE has launched Villa Cherie by Michael Amini, an exclusive furniture collection that redefines Neo-Classic European elegance for the contemporary home. Blending Parisian charm with modern sophistication, Villa Cherie is a celebration of timeless design, intricate craftsmanship, and refined romance. Curated for those who seek more than just furniture, but a lifestyle defined by beauty and meaning - the collection features graceful curves, rich finishes, and statement-making silhouettes. From opulent dining tables to ornate bedroom pieces, each item is crafted to transform everyday living into an expression of personal style and emotion. 'At Interiors, we believe that design is deeply personal — it's the story of who you are, told through space, form, and feeling,' said Raed Dibs, CEO of Interiors UAE. 'Villa Cherie by Michael Amini is a collection that speaks to the soul. It captures the poetry of Parisian elegance and translates it into pieces that are not only beautiful, but meaningful. We are proud to bring this exclusive collection to our customers in the UAE who don't just furnish their homes, but design them with intention, emotion, and an eye for timeless artistry.' As the exclusive home of Villa Cherie in the UAE, Interiors continues its mission to bring design-led, emotionally resonant collections to discerning customers. The launch also highlights Interiors' commitment to offering unique, curated lifestyles that inspire customers to reimagine their spaces with sophistication and warmth. In addition to the main collection, Villa Cherie is thoughtfully complemented by a curated selection of accent pieces that bring texture, elegance, and functionality into harmony. The Charbel Bookends, are masterfully handcrafted with a faux coral finish and perched atop sleek crystal bases, perfect for both traditional and modern interiors. The Voyage Brass and Wood Bench balances brushed brass with gray-glazed acacia wood, creating a refined contrast of warm metallics and rich natural textures, ideal for entryways, bedrooms, or living rooms. The Wrenley Table Lamp, with its glossy off-white porcelain base and antique brass hardware, introduces soft lighting and sculptural charm to any setting. Additional highlights include the Henzler Glass Table, a gold-leaf-finished iron silhouette with a reinforced mirrored top and clear glass shelving, and the Arta Table Clock, an artful timepiece in antique brushed brass with a clear bubble glass face. Customers are invited to explore Villa Cherie at Interiors' showrooms across the UAE. Experience firsthand the artistry, emotion, and enduring beauty behind one of Michael Amini's most iconic collections to date. Learn more about the collection at Follow Emirates 24|7 on Google News.
New York Times
27-03-2025
- General
- New York Times
Pilar Viladas Dies at 70; Journalist Chronicled Trends in Design
Pilar Viladas, a veteran writer and editor whose human touch and encyclopedic knowledge of architecture, design and art history gave her work a quiet authority, died on March 15 at a hospital near her home in Southbury, Conn. She was 70. The cause was amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease, her sister Luisa Viladas said. Starting at Interiors magazine, a trade publication, in 1979, Ms. Viladas's decades-long career traced the whipsaw design trends of the past half-century, including the arch whimsy of the Memphis movement in early 1980s Italy, the gilded excesses of late-1980s interiors, the minimalism of the '90s and the swaggering era of star architects at the turn of the last millennium. Ms. Viladas was an editor at Progressive Architecture, HG and The New York Times Magazine, and a contributor to Town & Country and Architectural Digest, among many other magazines that documented, with anthropological zest, the totems of privilege and lives well lived. But Ms. Viladas wasn't interested in fads or fetishes, although she noted them with amusement. Her taste was for enduring expressions of good design. Holly Brubach, a former style director of The Times Magazine, hired her in 1997, after Ms. Viladas had completed a Loeb Fellowship in advanced environmental studies at Harvard. 'It was the era of the starchitect, and all those sleek, slick, glitzy buildings,' Ms. Brubach said in an interview. But Ms. Viladas, she said, 'was more interested in the way people lived and the role design played in their lives — and I don't mean the aerodynamic shape of a chair.' 'It was how people arranged their homes and made a place for the things they loved,' Ms. Brubach added. 'She brought a human perspective to it that I really admired.' At The Times Magazine, Ms. Viladas covered a who's who of design stars. She wrote about the modernist architect Deborah Berke and the eclectic domestic interiors of Calvin Tsao and Zack McKown. She visited the apartment, at the San Remo, on Central Park West, of the fashion designer Donna Karan and her husband, the sculptor Stephen Weiss. And she chronicled the work of the Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese architect Tadao Ando for fashion designers like Karl Lagerfeld and Giorgio Armani. Her favorite house, Ms. Viladas often said, was the Houston showplace of John and Dominique de Menil, the Schlumberger oil family scions and art collectors — a low-slung glass and brick house designed by Philip Johnson, with interiors by the fashion designer Charles James. When she visited in 1999, a few years after Ms. de Menil's death, she marveled at the home's 'material splendor — suave modern architecture, jaw-dropping art and serious furniture — and its casual down-to-earth aura.' Ms. Viladas also wrote about her favorite apartment: 'the impossibly chic London flat' belonging to Ingrid Bergman's character in 'Indiscreet,' the 1958 romantic comedy that co-starred Cary Grant as a man pretending to be married to escape commitment. Ms. Viladas loved the riot of color and texture in the apartment's elegantly proportioned living room (not to mention the film's tart dialogue). 'Because she was so educated, she could recognize intention in design and, for her, that was always good,' said the writer William Norwich, a former colleague at The Times Magazine. 'She was a discerner, and she was a gatekeeper, but she was not a snob.' The photographer William Abranowicz, who shot the de Menil house for Ms. Viladas's 1999 piece (and for many more of her articles) said of her: 'She trusted you to walk into a space, to feel what she could articulate and to make an image. The other thing I loved about Pilar was sometimes when you did a story with a designer, they would try and steer the story. That's when her teeth came out — and she had some good teeth.' Maria Pilar Viladas was born on May 6, 1954, in Greenwich, Conn., the eldest of four children of Angeline (Schimizzi) Viladas and Joseph M. Viladas, a marketing research consultant. She attended Greenwich High School and studied art history at Harvard University, graduating in 1977. In addition to her sister Luisa, Ms. Viladas is survived by another sister, Mina Viladas. Their brother, Jordi, died in 2022. Ms. Viladas was the author of and a contributor to many design and architecture books, including 'Los Angeles: A Certain Style' (1995) and 'Domesticities: At Home with The New York Times Magazine' (2005). 'I have an idealistic view of design,' she told Whisper Editions, the former art and design auction site, where she was a consultant, in 2014. 'Design is a much bigger idea than how a lamp works. It's a way of looking at the world.'
The Guardian
06-02-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
From Alice to Zelig via Rosemary's Baby: Mia Farrow's 20 best films – ranked!
Like many a Hollywood star, Farrow took part in a 1970s disaster movie. In this Roger Corman production she's in a love triangle with Rock Hudson, whose ski resort lies under an avalanche-prone mountain, and environmentalist Robert Forster, whose warnings are ignored. What happens next won't surprise you. Hot off Rosemary's Baby and Midnight Cowboy, respectively, Farrow and Dustin Hoffman team up for a one-night stand, with the getting-to-know-you part coming after the sex. John Mortimer's screenplay tries to channel the permissiveness of late-1960s Hollywood, but fails miserably, not helped by zero chemistry between the two leads. Billie Whitelaw in the 1976 original is a hard act to follow, but Farrow turns her scary dial all the way up to 11 as Mrs Baylock, the nanny from hell. She's part of a classy cast that makes this needless remake more than just tolerable. From Interiors onwards, Woody Allen expunged all comedy from his 'serious' oatmeal-hued homages to his heroes, Ingmar Bergman and (as here) Anton Chekhov. Farrow plays a suicidal woman whose plans to sell her holiday home in Vermont are scuppered by her mother, a former actor with a dark secret. Uncle Vanya is a lot funnier. In 1906, half a dozen rich folk gather in upstate New York for amorous shenanigans. The first of Farrow's 13 films with Woody Allen is a pastiche of Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night. It's sophisticated fluff, but as Ariel, free-spirited fiancee of a much older geezer, Mia has rarely looked lovelier. After her supporting role in Crimes and Misdemeanors, Allen bumped Farrow up to leading lady again in a whimsical chamber piece about a spoilt socialite for whom a Chinese herbal remedy has drastic side effects. Minor Woody, but a reminder that most of his career was spent writing nuanced female characters, as opposed to the dimwitted bimbos of his later oeuvre. Forget the 2022 remake, which never comes close to reproducing the high-camp larks of this ace Agatha Christie mystery. Peter Ustinov does Poirot duties when an heiress is murdered on a paddle steamer. Farrow is part of an all-star cast of suspects that also includes Bette Davis and Angela Lansbury. Allen plays a documentary-maker with a crush on a TV producer, played by Farrow, but their story feels like a featherweight afterthought next to the other half of his darkest film, in which an opthalmologist takes out a hit on an inconvenient lover. This adaptation of an early Peter Straub novel begins with Farrow giving an acting masterclass in panic as she botches a breakfast-table tracheotomy on her daughter. Afterwards, the traumatised mother starts thinking her London house is haunted by the child's ghost. But no, it's worse, and characters start dropping dead as a malevolent force kicks in. Farrow received third billing, after Laurence Harvey and Tom Courtenay, for her role as a perky, Pierre Cardin-clad photographer in Anthony Mann's film of Derek Marlowe's existential spy thriller. (Harvey took over as director after Mann died of a heart attack before the end of filming.) Her relentless ingenuousness only adds to the antihero's paranoia. Allen's film about middle-aged female regret is very much the Gena Rowlands show, photographed by Sven Nykvist in shades of beige. She is sensational as a 50-ish philosophy professor, but the tremulous vulnerability of Farrow's voice plays a pivotal role since it's the prof's eavesdropping on her therapy sessions that makes her re-evaluate her own life. In 1970, Farrow married conductor André Previn, gave birth to twins and acted on the London stage. Somehow she also found time to play a blind woman who gropes her way around her uncle's house, only to find everyone dead. There's a killer on the loose! A straightforward thriller that delivers the goods, with Mia the epitome of a woman in peril. This portrait of a disintegrating marriage marks the end of a golden run of collaborations between Farrow and Allen, but has acquired extra piquancy since their bust-up. In their earlier films, she was winsome; here, she is a passive-aggressive manipulator. One thing is clear: since 1992, neither has come anywhere near to recapturing the magic of their work together. Jack Clayton's film of F Scott Fitzgerald's novel gets drunk on its own 1920s period detail, and Robert Redford is more like a film star on sabbatical than a man with a shady past. But Farrow is perfect as shallow Daisy, looking so adorable in beaded headgear and flapper frocks (loose-fitting enough to hide her pregnancy during filming) that you can understand his fixation on her. A chameleonic mystery man crops up in old newsreel footage from the Jazz Age to Yankee Stadium in Allen's pioneering found-footage mockumentary. Farrow co-stars as his psychiatrist, Dr Eudora Fletcher, who uses hypnosis to explore his condition, falls in love with her patient, and rescues him from Nazi Germany. Her marriage to Frank Sinatra was on the rocks when Farrow put on a long dark wig to play the unstable Cenci in Joseph Losey's mad gothic arthouse melodrama filmed in a fabulous London location: Debenham House. Elizabeth Taylor plays a sex worker who becomes her surrogate mother, while Robert Mitchum is a sleazy uncle. It flopped, but has accrued a following over the years. One of Allen's most perfectly balanced films, this revolves around Farrow, at her most matriarchal as the den-mother bossing her family around at Thanksgiving, but unaware her own husband (Michael Caine) is lusting after her sister. Offscreen, meanwhile, Mia was busy giving birth to or adopting children, some with Woody's help, and would end up with 14 of them. Farrow comes out blasting as a brassy gum-chewing mob widow involved with a has-been lounge singer in Allen's poignant comedy about a two-bit talent agent who cares, almost too deeply, for his oddball acts. This was the film that showed definitively there was more to Mia than the waiflike characters she had been playing, on and off, since 1964's Peyton Place. Allen gave Farrow her most heartbreaking role in this bittersweet romantic fantasy set during the Great Depression. A mousy waitress seeks escape from her abusive marriage by going to the movies, until one day the leading man steps out of the screen and woos her in the real world. It's impossible not to start blubbing during Mia's exquisite final closeup. When she was cast as the lead in Roman Polanski's adaptation of Ira Levin's novel, Farrow was already Hollywood royalty (her parents were Maureen O'Sullivan and John Farrow), for her role in TV's Peyton Place, and for her marriage to Sinatra, who served her with divorce papers on set. As the nice Catholic wife forced to bear the devil's baby, she draws us into every aspect of her psychological and physical ordeal, pausing only to get one of the most famous pixie crops in cinema history. One of the all-time great horror film performances.
Khaleej Times
05-02-2025
- Business
- Khaleej Times
Interiors UAE introduces timeless elegance with the Corso Como Bedroom collection by Alf Italia
Interiors UAE, a leader in luxury home décor, proudly presents the Corso Como Bedroom Collection by Alf Italia — an exquisite showcase of modern Italian craftsmanship. Designed to redefine elegance and sophistication, this exclusive collection blends the warmth of Canaletto walnut wood with sleek laser detailing, creating a contemporary aesthetic that embodies refined luxury. Crafted entirely in Italy from the finest materials, the Corso Como collection offers a complete range of bedroom furniture, including beds in multiple sizes, bedside tables, dressers, and mirrors. At the heart of the collection lies its stunning signature bed, featuring a padded, quilted headboard with built-in LED lighting — a seamless fusion of comfort and contemporary design that transforms any bedroom into a sanctuary of style. The collection is distinguished by its Mocha Mousse finish, the Pantone Color of the Year for 2025, enhancing the elegant contrast of natural wood and modern laser detailing. Beyond its visual appeal, the Corso Como collection is designed with functionality in mind, offering spacious dressers and nightstands that ensure seamless organisation while maintaining an air of sophistication. "At Interiors, we are committed to bringing the finest in luxury home décor to our clients, and the Corso Como collection perfectly embodies this mission," said Raed Dibs, CEO of Interiors UAE. "With its impeccable craftsmanship and contemporary allure, this collection offers homeowners a chance to invest in a truly exceptional and timeless bedroom design." The Corso Como Bedroom Collection is available exclusively at Interiors UAE showrooms across the country and online, offering customers the opportunity to create a luxurious retreat that balances elegance and practicality.
Emirates 24/7
30-01-2025
- Business
- Emirates 24/7
Interiors Brings Timeless Elegance to Bedrooms with the Corso Como Collection by Alf Italia
As a brand on the forefront of elevated home design, Interiors UAE presents the Corso Como Bedroom Collection by Alf Italia, a masterpiece of modern Italian craftsmanship. This exclusive collection redefines luxury living, blending the warmth of Canaletto walnut wood with sleek laser finishes for a contemporary aesthetic that exudes sophistication. Crafted entirely in Italy from premium materials, the Corso Como collection offers a versatile range of bedroom furniture, including beds in multiple sizes, bedside tables, dressers, and mirrors. At its heart lies the stunning bed, featuring a padded, quilted headboard enhanced with built-in LED lighting—a perfect union of comfort and style that elevates any bedroom. The collection features exquisite design, a harmonious blend of natural wood and modern laser detailing for a sleek, elegant look finished in Mocha Mousse, the Pantone Color of the Year for 2025, In addition to the centrepiece bed, the collection also features complementary furniture pieces, including spacious dressers and nightstands, ensure a cohesive and stylish bedroom design. Functionality takes precedence in the thoughtfully designed storage solutions, including roomy drawers, combining practicality with refined beauty. ' At Interiors, we strive to bring only the finest in luxury home décor to our clients, and the Corso Como collection aligns perfectly with our mission.' said Raed Dibs, CEO of Interiors UAE. 'Combining cutting-edge design with unparalleled craftsmanship, this collection offers our customers a chance to invest in a truly exceptional and modern bedroom that will stand the test of time.' The Corso Como Bedroom Collection is now available exclusively at Interiors UAE showrooms across the country and online, offering customers an opportunity to create a luxurious retreat that embodies the perfect balance of elegance and functionality. For more information, please visit the website at Follow Emirates 24|7 on Google News.
