Category Archives: Design

At Last, The Day Has Finally Arrived.

Posted on December 9, 2018 by Arvin da Brgha

With a spring in my step, I came up for air at Piccadilly Circus Station, whistling Ludwig Minkus’ glorious recurrent melody from La Bayadère with thoughts of the astounding Natalia Osipova uppermost in my thoughts. I was returned to the … Continue reading →

Pilgrimage to Windsor… that dress!

Posted on December 7, 2018 by Arvin da Brgha

Aerial view: Windsor Castle, Berkshire. In the mad dash to board the train from King’s Cross/St. Pancras Station to Paddington Station, I boarded the wrong train and ended up losing almost of hour of valuable time. Nonetheless to Windsor with … Continue reading →

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Shopping @ British Museum.

Posted on December 4, 2018 by Arvin da Brgha

On the occasion of HRH Prince Charles, Prince of Wales’ 70th birthday, the sunrise was the most glorious display of apricot orange, manseport orange and blood orange tonalities. So ravishing was it that I had to get up from the … Continue reading →

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Now there was a night in the theatre.

Posted on November 1, 2018 by Arvin da Brgha

Whilst Lucian Mann-Chomedy took in the pre-opera lecture, I sat on a bench in the middle of University Avenue, enjoying a rather exquisite four-cheese macaroni and cheese baked to perfection as I read a very good biography of Tudor matriarch, … Continue reading →

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Two Weddings, A Baby, A Gaggle of Racial Predators and Hadrian’s frightful ghost.

Posted on October 24, 2018 by Arvin da Brgha

The recent wedding of the Duke of Huescar to his handsome bride was a stunning bit of theatre. He is, of course, the future Duke of Alba, grandson of one of the grandest nobles of the last century, the inimitable … Continue reading →

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Here’s to You!

Posted on January 9, 2018 by Arvin da Brgha

Just a wee glimpse into my magical life where dreamquests are all begun in the groovy comfort of my collapsible pyramid. I have had a pyramid since 1984 in one form or another. This incarnation of my dream chamber, I … Continue reading →

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Four Standing Figures.

Posted on October 9, 2017 by Arvin da Brgha

Four Standing Figures Lithograph 12.5 x 15 in 11/50 ©1978 Henry Moore Provenance: Collection of Arvin da Brgha Let there be art. Let there be love. Back in 1982, Merlin and I were holding up at the Trockadero loft — … Continue reading →

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Three Sketches of Fraggle Rock

Posted on September 9, 2017 by Arvin da Brgha

Back in late 1982, a couple of evenings after rehearsals, I made it home to the Trockadero loft which Merlin had sublet in Chelsea — across the street was a massive green-painted block long edifice at 645 Sixth Avenue — … Continue reading →

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