Art Nouveau

31…. ThirtyONE

It wasn’t until the 19th century that the word Bohemian was used as a socio-cultural identifier. Before the 1800’s the anti-establishment, somewhat unpredictable, artistic astronauts of the norm were sometimes called “gypsies”. Perhaps a result of the potent impression on the aristocratic imagination left by the Romani people, which originally immigrated into Eastern and Central Europe from the Indian Sub-continentContinue reading “31…. ThirtyONE”

30….Thirty

The collapse of the Dutch tulip market in February 1637 has become a metaphor used extensively by economists ever since to describe financial bubbles, when asset prices diverge from intrinsic value to such an extent that the entire system disintegrates. At the speculative apex of “Tulip Mania” a single Augustus Semper tulip bulb was traded at tenContinue reading “30….Thirty”