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Sure, if you’ve got enough shamrocks to sink a leprechaun’s pot, this Aer Lingus A321 ‘throne’ is where you’ll lie flat like Saint Patrick after a grand ol’ feast—complimentary breakfast included, begorrah!
Happy Saint Patrick's Day
17th March 2025
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Rome, Italy, July 22 2017, A striking red dress is showcased in the shop window on Via Condotti, attracting evening pedestrians in Rome.
Canadian Museum of History; Hull; Gatineau, Quebec.
Louis Vuitton has a handbag store at London Heathrow Terminal 2. Nobody was buying when I snapped this view at 06.30, but there were customers at the attached bar/cafe. Literally a case of “Handbags at Dawn”…
Armlet with leaping lion–griffin tips, 500–330 BC
found at Takht-i Kuwad, Tajikistan
Gold
Tribute
The objects here match gifts being carried in a tribute ceremony depicted on a relief at Persepolis: a gold armlet, a silver drinking-bowl and a jar that poured wine through its handle. The armlet was inlaid with precious stones or glass, now lost.
Luxury goods flowed into the court as tribute, including textiles, precious metal vessels, jewellery and exotic animals. Governors, officials and foreign envoys also brought gifts when they requested a royal audience.*
From the exhibition
Luxury and power: Persia to Greece
(May 2023 – Aug 2023)
Between 490 and 479 BC, the Persian empire tried, and failed, to conquer mainland Greece. Many Greeks explained their victory as a triumph of plain living over a ‘barbarian’ enemy weakened by luxury. Ancient objects reveal a different story. The Persian court used luxury as an expression of prestige and power, with a distinctive style that was imitated and adapted across cultural borders, even influencing democratic Athens and, later, the world of Alexander the Great.
'Treasure there was in plenty – tents full of gold and silver furniture… bowls, goblets, and cups, all made of gold'
When Greek soldiers captured the royal command tent of the Persian king during the Greco-Persian Wars (499–449 BC), they were confronted suddenly and spectacularly by luxury on an unimaginable scale. To many ancient Greek writers, the victories of the small Greek forces against the mighty Persians were a triumph of discipline and restraint over an empire weakened by decadence and excess.
Drawing on dazzling objects from Afghanistan to Greece, this exhibition moved beyond the ancient Greek spin to explore a more complex story about luxury as a political tool in the Middle East and southeast Europe from 550–30 BC. It explored how the royal Achaemenid court of Persia used precious objects as markers of authority, defining a style of luxury that resonated across the empire from Egypt to India. It considered how eastern luxuries were received in early democratic Athens, self-styled as Persia's arch-enemy, and how they were adapted in innovative ways to make them socially and politically acceptable. Finally, it explored how Alexander the Great swept aside the Persian empire to usher in a new Hellenistic age in which eastern and western styles of luxury were fused as part of an increasingly interconnected world.
The exhibition brought together exquisitely crafted objects in gold, silver and glass, and featured star loans including the extraordinary Panagyurishte Treasure from Bulgaria. Whether coveted as objects of prestige or disparaged as signs of decadence, the beauty of these Persian, Greek and Hellenistic luxuries shaped the political landscape of Europe and Asia in the first millennium BC – and their legacy persists in our attitudes to luxury today.
[*British Musem]
Taken in the British Musem
Plaque showing a woman with a flower, 500–330 BC
Iran
Gold
Discovering images of Persian women
Although monumental reliefs at Persepolis portray an exclusively masculine world, rare images of women survive on personal objects such as cosmetic containers and jewellery.*
From the exhibition
Luxury and power: Persia to Greece
(May 2023 – Aug 2023)
Between 490 and 479 BC, the Persian empire tried, and failed, to conquer mainland Greece. Many Greeks explained their victory as a triumph of plain living over a ‘barbarian’ enemy weakened by luxury. Ancient objects reveal a different story. The Persian court used luxury as an expression of prestige and power, with a distinctive style that was imitated and adapted across cultural borders, even influencing democratic Athens and, later, the world of Alexander the Great.
'Treasure there was in plenty – tents full of gold and silver furniture… bowls, goblets, and cups, all made of gold'
When Greek soldiers captured the royal command tent of the Persian king during the Greco-Persian Wars (499–449 BC), they were confronted suddenly and spectacularly by luxury on an unimaginable scale. To many ancient Greek writers, the victories of the small Greek forces against the mighty Persians were a triumph of discipline and restraint over an empire weakened by decadence and excess.
Drawing on dazzling objects from Afghanistan to Greece, this exhibition moved beyond the ancient Greek spin to explore a more complex story about luxury as a political tool in the Middle East and southeast Europe from 550–30 BC. It explored how the royal Achaemenid court of Persia used precious objects as markers of authority, defining a style of luxury that resonated across the empire from Egypt to India. It considered how eastern luxuries were received in early democratic Athens, self-styled as Persia's arch-enemy, and how they were adapted in innovative ways to make them socially and politically acceptable. Finally, it explored how Alexander the Great swept aside the Persian empire to usher in a new Hellenistic age in which eastern and western styles of luxury were fused as part of an increasingly interconnected world.
The exhibition brought together exquisitely crafted objects in gold, silver and glass, and featured star loans including the extraordinary Panagyurishte Treasure from Bulgaria. Whether coveted as objects of prestige or disparaged as signs of decadence, the beauty of these Persian, Greek and Hellenistic luxuries shaped the political landscape of Europe and Asia in the first millennium BC – and their legacy persists in our attitudes to luxury today.
[*British Musem]
Taken in the British Museum
Armlet with leaping lion–griffin tips, 500–330 BC
found at Takht-i Kuwad, Tajikistan
Gold
Tribute
The objects here match gifts being carried in a tribute ceremony depicted on a relief at Persepolis: a gold armlet, a silver drinking-bowl and a jar that poured wine through its handle. The armlet was inlaid with precious stones or glass, now lost.
Luxury goods flowed into the court as tribute, including textiles, precious metal vessels, jewellery and exotic animals. Governors, officials and foreign envoys also brought gifts when they requested a royal audience.*
From the exhibition
Luxury and power: Persia to Greece
(May 2023 – Aug 2023)
Between 490 and 479 BC, the Persian empire tried, and failed, to conquer mainland Greece. Many Greeks explained their victory as a triumph of plain living over a ‘barbarian’ enemy weakened by luxury. Ancient objects reveal a different story. The Persian court used luxury as an expression of prestige and power, with a distinctive style that was imitated and adapted across cultural borders, even influencing democratic Athens and, later, the world of Alexander the Great.
'Treasure there was in plenty – tents full of gold and silver furniture… bowls, goblets, and cups, all made of gold'
When Greek soldiers captured the royal command tent of the Persian king during the Greco-Persian Wars (499–449 BC), they were confronted suddenly and spectacularly by luxury on an unimaginable scale. To many ancient Greek writers, the victories of the small Greek forces against the mighty Persians were a triumph of discipline and restraint over an empire weakened by decadence and excess.
Drawing on dazzling objects from Afghanistan to Greece, this exhibition moved beyond the ancient Greek spin to explore a more complex story about luxury as a political tool in the Middle East and southeast Europe from 550–30 BC. It explored how the royal Achaemenid court of Persia used precious objects as markers of authority, defining a style of luxury that resonated across the empire from Egypt to India. It considered how eastern luxuries were received in early democratic Athens, self-styled as Persia's arch-enemy, and how they were adapted in innovative ways to make them socially and politically acceptable. Finally, it explored how Alexander the Great swept aside the Persian empire to usher in a new Hellenistic age in which eastern and western styles of luxury were fused as part of an increasingly interconnected world.
The exhibition brought together exquisitely crafted objects in gold, silver and glass, and featured star loans including the extraordinary Panagyurishte Treasure from Bulgaria. Whether coveted as objects of prestige or disparaged as signs of decadence, the beauty of these Persian, Greek and Hellenistic luxuries shaped the political landscape of Europe and Asia in the first millennium BC – and their legacy persists in our attitudes to luxury today.
[*British Musem]
Taken in the British Musem
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— Coco Chanel
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— Coco Chanel
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The best things in life are free. The second best are very expensive.
— Coco Chanel
Typeface: Knockout
Merchandise available: www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/159090812
The best things in life are free. The second best are very expensive.
— Coco Chanel
Typeface: Knockout
Merchandise available: www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/159090696
The best things in life are free. The second best are very expensive.
— Coco Chanel
Typeface: Knockout
Merchandise available: www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/159090696
The best things in life are free. The second best are very expensive.
— Coco Chanel
Typeface: Knockout
Merchandise available: www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/159090812
The best things in life are free. The second best are very expensive.
— Coco Chanel
Typeface: Knockout
Merchandise available: www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/159090576
