Turkana Basin Institute
We at Lady Lori remain always fascinated with the work that our great friends at the Turkana Basin Institute do in the field of researching…
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‘One Life’ narrated by Daniel Craig
‘One Life’, captures unprecedented and beautiful sequences of animal behaviour, guaranteed to bring you closer to nature than ever before. The DVD of this stunning…
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E-Volo Multicopter
With its 16 propellers, this helicopter-like device will certainly keep you in the air.
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Swahili Fashion Week 2011
Only 3 more days until Swahili Fashion Week 2011…
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‘Kinshasa One Two’ by DRC Music
A collective of producers lead by Damon Albarn recently visited the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to produce a new album for Oxfam.
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“Kenya” by Michael Poliza & Friends
This stunning new book about Kenya, full of specteculair aerial shots, photos of dramatic landscapes, powerful animal studies, and portraits of proud Maasai, was published…
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Bottletop’s Annual Fundraising Event ‘Full Circle 2011’
Last night I attended the UK charity Bottletop’s annual fundraising event ‘Full Circle 2011’ at Phillips de Pury in London, where many beautiful works of…
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From Growth to Power
The Prix Pictet Growth Cycle reached its conclusion this week with the opening of an exhibition of photographs by Chris Jordan at the Diemar/Noble Photography,…
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Soho House Kibera Project Launch
Tomorrow launches the Soho House Kibera Project by solo-artist James Hart Dyke and photographers Franco Pasti, Fabrice Paget & Nikos Economopoulos, with a private view…
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Davina Dobie
My good friend and great artist Davina Dobie has produced the most stunning paintings, one of which is currently hanging in my office. I have posted…
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Deadly Ponies ‘Mr Safari’ Handbags
The latest Deadly Ponies collection titled ‘Okapi Rider’ gets its inspiration from the African wildlife and the surrealist works of Walton Ford. Via High Snobette
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Fatou – by Fatoumata Diawara
Even though originated from Mali rather than East Africa, I would highly recommend this great new album of Fatoumata Diawara to all Lady Lori clients…
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Soweto Designer Lesego Malatsi
It’s always a fabulous feeling when someone from Africa makes it on the world stage and Soweto born fashion designer Lesego Malatsi’s stunning debut seems…
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Stuart Ringer
London’s James Hartnoll Gallery in St James has an exhibition of Stuart Ringer’s latest photography, including many fine images from his shoots in Ethopia.
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Duncan Stevens
South African Jewellery Designer – Duncan Stevens – ‘Flights in Silver’ is a bespoke catwalk collection.
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Vivienne Westwood’s ‘Ethical Fashion Africa’ campaign
Lady Lori is pleased to see that even fashion icons as globally significant as Vivienne Westwood now choose to shoot their advertising campaigns in Kenya…
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Tinariwen
For those Lady Lori clients that are fans of African music, let me introduce you to Tinariwen.
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“Kenya: A Country in the Making” by Nigel Pavitt
The 720 stunning photographs presented in this book, first published in September 2008, were drawn from family archives and scrapbooks and all carefully restored. The book…
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‘Shades of Nature’ by Heinrich van den Berg
These truly beautiful black and white photographs of Africa’s wildlife, shot by wildlife photographer Heinrich van den Berg, show the creatures at their most intimate…
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Chris Ofili at the Tate, London
Chris Ofili’s intensely coloured and intricately ornamented paintings are on show at Tate Britain in a major survey of the artist’s career that brings together…
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Clinton Friedman: Botanical Prints
I am altogether impressed with the botanical prints of photographer Clinton Friedman, in which he attempts to log into history and create new purpose for these…
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Africa Fashion Week
It’s currently Africa Fashion Week in New York, an event that showcases the very best of African fashion designers. Most of the collections on display…
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‘Pure Life Experiences’, Marrakech: 1st – 4th November 2011
Lady Lori is proud to have been invited to become one of the preferred exhibitors at the 2011 ‘Pure Life Experiences’ networking platform and marketing…
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Lady Lori: ‘Africa By Air’
It’s an exciting day today, Lady Lori’s new brochure/book ‘Africa By Air’ is back from the bookbinders and it looks fabulous!
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The Kenya Rug, Ralph Lauren Home
If you like ‘safari style’ with an eco twist, the Kenya Hemp & Jute Rug from Ralph Lauren Home will be right up your alley.
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Lady Lori’s new book ‘Africa by Air’
An exciting day today, as the pages of the new Lady Lori book ‘Africa by Air’ have been printed in the UK!
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Fossil footprints of early modern humans, Tanzania
Newly discovered fossil footprints at a site in northern Tanzania on the shore of Lake Natron capture a moment in time around 120,000 years ago when…
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Cultural Heritage Centre, Arusha, Tanzania
Cultural Heritage is a unique cultural center on the outskirts of Arusha, Tanzania. They have curio shops, a jewellery boutique, a Tanzanite and precious stone counter,…
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Lionel Smit
Born in Pretoria in 1982, this talented young artist lives and works in Cape Town, and has already established a substantial international following.
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Vanishing Africa: Mirella Ricciardi
In 1971, 40 years ago, Mirella Ricciardi was to publish one of the seminal books documenting Africa’s tribes and their customs and cultures – customs…
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Alstermo Bruk Atlas cases
Lady Lori often finds itself appreciating some of the wonderful examples of luggage design that it’s clients have invested in and appreciate too that giving…
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National Geographic
National Geographic Channel’s Great Migrations is a seven-part global television event that takes viewers around the world on the arduous journeys millions of animals undertake…
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Vintage Luggage Makes For The Perfect Furniture
Thinking about travel appropriate furnishings for Lady Lori’s offices at Wilson Airport in Nairobi, I came across this piece which blends my desire for old-world…
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Lamu: Kenya’s Enchanted Island by George and Lorna Abungu
This book, first published in October 2009, presents a beautiful photographic primer of the main island of the Lamu Archipelago, located off the East coast…
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‘A Shadow Falls’ by Nick Brandt
In ‘A Shadow Falls’, first published in September 2009, Nick Brandt continues his ambitious and ongoing photographic project to memorialise the vanishing natural grandeur of…
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‘Mulatu Steps Ahead’ by Mulatu Astatke
So many of Lady Lori’s clients seem to love world music – and African music in particular – so I am happy to recommend this…
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Peter Beard Artwork
How amazing are the collages/paintings of Peter Beard.
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Alek Wek
A stunning photograph of Sudanese British model Alek Wek…
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‘Views of Africa’ by Stefan Schütz
It is the foreign, the magical, the secretive that fascinates us about Africa. ‘Views Of Africa’ approaches this vast continent and its peoples from another…
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The Hyena Handlers from Hausa
Seeing Hyena up close is always a thrill for Lady Lori’s clients and lately I seem to keep coming across these images in a number…