Jul 30
It’s ture that anybody can wear gold and diamonds. While, only jewelers have the gift of putting precious metals and gems together to form loveliness inspired by pieces of art. Just like in the great world of art, every person has their own personal tastes and preferences. That’s the same when it comes to jewelry. How do you think of the best jewelers in the world? Do you wonder which is the winner?

The Luxury Institute recently interviewed 500 wealthy luxury consumers and asked them to rate 20 of the world’s top jewelers in order to come up with a ranked list of the top 10. I really know you want to get accuracy information, thus I thought you should know that a top of most luxurious jewelry brands has been made. Here I list the top 10 prestigious brands. Any comment is acclaimed. Now let’s take a look at the result:

Top 1 HARRY WINSTON



Known around the world, respondents claimed that Harry Winston is the “ultimate for diamond design.” The brand finished last year with 18 stores and has plans to more than double its store count.

Top 2 BUCCELLATI



Buccellati is an exclusive luxury jewelry brand. The firm is known for their engraved brushed-gold and platinum jewelry embedded with fine gemstones including rubies, emeralds, diamonds and sapphires.

Top 3 VAN CLEEF and ARPELS



This luxury house is known to have a strong celebrity following with the likes of Marlene Deitrich, Eva Perion, Reese Witherspoon and Maggie Gyllenhaal wearing Van Cleef and Arpels for special events.

Top 4 GRAFF



This London based jewelry house is working to expand its ventures with store openings in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Geneva as well as the long awaited Manhattan flagship boutique designed by Peter Marino.

Top 5 TIFFANY & CO



As one respondent noted, “It’s all about the little blue box.”

Top 6 PIAGET



As more and more Americans and Europeans buy diamond watches, Piaget is seeing more and more growth. Traditionally known for their diamond watches, Piaget creates diamond jewelry with their diamond studded Hearts & Charms collection and their Limelight collection which features gemstones like purple and pink sapphires.

Top 7 CARTIER



Top 8 CHOPARD



Chopard has traditionally banked its growth and sales on one-of-a-kind jewelry that sells for millions.

Top 9 BULGARI



Bulgari has been experiencing tremendous growth and expansion and recently launced e-commerce on their website. Consumers have access to more than 800 styles including watches, jewelry, leather goods, accessories and gift items.

Top 10 MIKIMOTO



While many luxury jewelry houses are specializing in diamonds, Mikimoto has always focused on pearl jewelry.

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Jul 19
Vibrant, diverse, colourful and captivating are just some of the adjectives that describe this beautiful city. Set at the edge of the cold Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Cape Floral Kingdom (a World Heritage Site) and adorned with a world-renowned landmark, Table Mountain, Cape Town offers visitors and locals a multifaceted experience. Its not surprising then that Cape Town has been awarded so many accolades:

3rd Best City In The World - US Travel And Leisure July 2008   Best City In Africa & Middle East - US Travel And Leisure July 2008   4th Top City In The World – Conde Nast Readers’ Choice October 2008   Best City In Africa & Middle East – Conde Nast Readers’ Choice October 2008   3rd Best City In The Top 10 World Food Cities - Lonely Planet Blue List 2008   Best Destination, Africa - World Travel Awards May 2008   Best City To Live In, Africa & Middle East - Mercer Quality Of Living Survey 2008   One Of The “Places Of A Lifetime” – National Geographic Traveler, July 2008   One Of The World’s Most Sustainable Cities - Ethisphere Institute, Sept 2008   Boulder’s Beach: World’s Best Family Beach - UK Telegraph March 2007   Cleanest City In SA - DEAT Annual Cleanest Metro Awards March 2007   #1 Uk Long Haul Destination - UK Trends And Spends Survey 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007  One Of The World’s 5 Bluest Sky Destinations - Expedia.co.uk July 2006   Favourite Foreign City - UK Telegraph 2004, 2005   Ideal Travel Destination - Markinor-Sunday Times Top Brands Survey 2005   Africa’s Leading Destination - World Travel Awards 2008   Best Tourism Investor City of the Year - AI Tourism Investor Awards 2009

 

Cape Town offers a diverse menu for everyone: from extreme outdoor adventure activities to the quiet indoors, from budget backpacker accommodation to ultimate 6 star luxury, from cultural to theatrical entertainment and vast gastronomic experiences accompanied by some of the best wines in the world. Cape Town is a destination that for a traveller requires an absolute minimum of 3 nights stay to be able to grasp its diversity.

 

Cape Town is a popular venue for many international sports events such as the Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Race (109km road race), Two Oceans Marathon (56km), the start of the ABSA Cape Epic Mountain Bike Challenge (800km over 8 days with approx 16 000m of climbing!) and the start of the biannual Cape to Rio Yacht Race. Cape Town hosted the 2005 Rugby World Cup and 2003 ICC Cricket World Cup. Cape Town is also host to the 2010 FIFA World Cup taking place from 11 June to 11 July 2010. South Africans in general are great sport enthusiasts and Capetonians certainly play their part in this role.

 

Generally Capetonians are known by the locals of other South African cities to be very laid back and easy going. Compared to the bustling metropolis of Johannesburg for instance where life is upbeat, fast and social, things happen in order and on time. Well, mostly, we need to keep in mind that this is Africa after all! All in all, South Africans are known to be very friendly and welcome travellers from all over the world.

 

Cape Town is an excellent gateway to the rest of southern Africa and a visit here can be combined with world-renowned wildlife safari destinations such as Sabi Sands Game Reserve west of the Kruger National Park, the Okavango Delta in Botswana or the malaria free Eastern Cape game reserves. Amongst other travel options to combine with your visit to Cape Town is a desert wilderness experience in Namibia or a luxury tropical beach experience in Mozambique.

 

Having travelled extensively all over southern, east and north Africa and abroad (mostly Europe) I made my home in Cape Town. A home in a city I am very proud of and don’t intend leaving at any cost at this stage of my life.

 

Motto:  Living and Loving Cape Town

 

Come and visit and see for yourself…

 

 

 

 



By: Claire Dinnie

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Africa Tamed is a successful tour operator, based in Cape Town, South Africa offering unique, value added vacation packages to Southern Africa. Contact them now to design your all inclusive vacations to Southern Africa.
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SevenWholesale.com is one of the many online wholesale clothing shop that features some of the most priced and popular collections of urban and street wears. Some of their collections involves popular brands from popular fashion designers/artists like Sean John Combs, Jay-Z and Beyonce Knowles. SevenWholesale.com’s collection comprises of mens wear, womens dress, and kids clothing. Here is a short list of brands that SevenWholesale.com offers to their valued customers.

Men’s wholesale clothing brands

Blac Label

One of Sevenwholesale.com’s finest collection is the Blac Label. Blac Label is an urban clothing line designed founded by HeadGear in 2002. Blac Label was inspired when the trends of athletic inspired looks, vintage jerseys, and novelty t-shirts with simple screens and catchy sayings, have moved away from the mainstream in 2001. For blac label clothing collection, visit an online wholesale blac label shop.

Artful Dodger

Apart from the popular character “Artful Dodger”, the name is also used on a clothing line they liked to call Artful Dodger. The Artful Dodger Clothing is a line of urban and streetwear clothing lines for men that includes hoodies, jeans, and T-Shirts. They got the term Artful Dodger from a British colloquialism for someone who is skilled at avoiding the consequences of his or her misdeeds.

Gino Green Global

Another popular men’s clothing line from Sevenwholesale.com’s collection is Gino Green Global. The Gino Green Global branded clothing lines were founded and designed by Prince Mayol, along with other groups of people including his brother Anthony Mayol and business partner Norman Wells. Prince launched the Gino Green Global clothing lines with the “G” intentionally to look like the number 9.

Sean John

Sean John Clothing is another brand which was founded by Sean John Combs himself. Such people that represents the brand are T.I., Fabolous, The Game and Daddy Yankee, athletes including Dwyane Wade and Tristan Sooklal, plus fashion models Tyson Beckford and Kevin Navayne.

Women’s wholesale clothing brands

House of Dereon

One of SevenWholesale.com’s collection of women’s clothing line is the House of Dereon. The House of Dereon is a prêt-à-porter fashion line made especially for the women. The style and concept is inspired by three generations of women in their family, with the name “Deréon” paying tribute to Beyoncé’s grandmother, Agnèz Deréon.

Rocawear

Aside from the men’s clothing line, SevenWholesale.com also offers a wide range of Rocawear for the ladies. Rocawear is a clothing line founded by the hip-hop artist Jay-Z. Named after his recording label, Roc-a-Fella, the Rocawear branded clothing lines became as successful.

These are only some of the brands that SevenWholesale.com offers their customers. If you want to learn more of their collections, then visit their site.



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There are several major companies that manufacture custom window treatments.  In alphabetical order they are: Bali, Comfortex, Graber, Hunter Douglas, Kirsch and Levolor.  Most people are fairly unaware of the brand names in this industry.  It is nothing like automobiles or other well known consumer products.  And, to be sure, there are other smaller manufacturers that produce cheaper, ready-made blinds and shades.  For example, if you went to the Home Depot and bought a ten dollar mini blind, it is most likely made in China by some faceless, unknown company.

These manufacturers all have slightly different positions within the market, have been in business for different lengths of time and specialize in different things. It should also be noted that each brand offers window treatments at different prices levels.  From most expensive to least expensive, the brands should be listed as follows: Hunter Douglas, Graber and Kirsch (similar), Comfortex and Bali.

The largest company, by far, is Hunter Douglas, which is actually a multi-national company based in the Netherlands.  They are also probably on of the most recognizable window treatment brands in the world.  They are also generally the most expensive.  But, if you want the top of the line window treatment, this is the brand for you.  Hunter Douglas pretty much invented lightweight aluminum blinds, also called Venetian blinds.  And, they have many other innovations the most notable of which is cellular shades launched in 1985, under the brand name, “duette honeycomb shades.”  The company’s origins go back to 1919 but it wasn’t until 1946 that they started making window treatments, the aforementioned aluminum mini blinds.  Their US manufacturing headquarters are in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. 

Next up is Bali.  However, Bali is actually a brand name of a larger company called, Springs Window Fashions.  The headquarters of this company are in Middleton, Wisconsin but they also manufacture some of their window treatments in Mexico.  Springs also sells two other brands of window treatments, Graber and Nanik.  And, the company manufactures blinds, shades and curtains for retailers that are labeled as private label or as a “house-brand.”  It is likely that if you bought a house brand from a major retailer, online or brick and mortar, it is a Springs product.   

Comfortex was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Maplewood, New York, which is near Albany.  Comfortex is now a wholly-owned, independent subsidiary of Hunter Douglas.  The company also has a manufacturing facility in Phoenix, Arizona.  Comfortex is a company that prides itself on innovation, especially in the area of energy-efficient window treatments, such as cellular shades, cellular vertical blinds and others.

Levolor, next to Hunter Douglas is one of the most recognizable names in the window treatment industry.  The company was actually founded in 1914, and was probably best know for it 1 inch mini blinds, also know as micro blinds.  Today the company is a division of the multi-billion dollar consumer products company, Newell Rubbermaid. 

The manufacturing headquarters for Levolor is in High Point, North Carolina.   

Kirsch is another company with a long history; it was founded in 1907 where it started by manufacturing curtain rods.  An interesting side note, all the curtain rods in the movie, “Gone With The Wind” were Kirsch rods.  There products have also been featured in other movies.  It seems odd to me that a company with such a long and rich history would be so unknown.  By 1923, the company built half million square foot manufacturing plant in Sturgis, Michigan.  And, then in 1956, the company added another 250,000 square feet of assembly and storage space to their headquarters.  Today, Kirsch, which is also a division of the Newell Rubbermaid Company, offers a complete line of quality, custom window treatments. 

Though there is a range of price from, let’s say, Hunter Douglas to Bali, each manufacturer builds a good product.  Much like an automobile, the difference is in the details, options and internal parts.  You can’t really go wrong with any one brand; it just depends on your tastes and your budget.

So there you have it, an introduction to the world of custom window treatments and the brands behind them.  As a follow up, I will have to do an exciting, ground-breaking piece on the history aluminum mini blinds or shutters. Stay tuned.  – David Brooks



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