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Faces for the Afterlife: Funerary Masks from Ancient Egypt
Latest Stories
Fully Informed or Misinformed?
Category: Leonard Joel News
A chance encounter with my school music teacher gave me my first real insight into how industry specific language, particularly the language of catalo...
Faces for the Afterlife: Funerary Masks from Ancient Egypt
Category: Decorative Arts
Across human history, funerary masks have appeared in societies where death rituals and beliefs about the afterlife were central to cultural identity...
Into the Light: The Extraordinary Rediscovery of Clarice Beckett
Category: Art
Clarice Beckett is today regarded as one of the most important Australian painters of the interwar period, however she was very nearly forgotten entir...
Fanfare: The Fan Design in Australian Art
Category: Art
In the late 19th to early 20th centuries, Australian art underwent a significant transformation...
Sitting with Discomfort, Uncomfortable by Design
Category: Modern Design
In 1944, Bruno Munari published an essay in Domus that would become an enduring critique; ‘Seeking Comfort in an Uncomfortable Chair’...
The Rise, Fall, and Reinvention of Accessible Luxury, Beyond the Boutique
Category: Luxury
About five years ago, post-pandemic, I wrote an article for Leonard Magazine on the changing face of luxury stores...
Jardin of Envy
Category: Jewels
One of the most famous engagement rings in history began as a single large rough Colombian emerald, before being cut into two stones...
Graphic Confidence: Alun Leach-Jones in Print
Category: Prints & Multiples
Alun Leach-Jones’ prints are easy to respond to. Bold, graphic, and confident, they hold attention without pushing too hard...
The Remarkable Reverso, A Watch You’ll Flip Over
Category: Timepieces
It may surprise you, as it did me, to learn that the 1930s Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso may not have been the first reversible watch, but such is its icon...