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Napa Valley Wine and Food Village, Cairdean Estates, launches Art Program

artist Israel Valencia

Cairdean Estate, Napa Valley’s  Wine & Food Village, reports that it is unveiling an art program with an estate-wide exhibition in conjunction with the Rosgal Gallery (“Rose-gal”) Gallery.

Anticipating the 2015 opening of Rosgal Gallery, Cairdean has integrated the artists’ work throughout the property and among the Estate’s wine and food offerings.

Owners Edwin and Stacia Williams have invited several leading and emerging Napa Valley artists for their premiere exhibition and artist’s reception including Wade Hoefer, Israel Valencia, Teri Tito and Matt Torrens plus guest artist Ryan Sorrell, hailing from Texas, to display their fine art including paintings, photography, foil mosaics and sculpture.

artist Matt Torrens

Art lovers can view the art of Rosgal Gallery along with the Cairdean Vineyard’s Tasting Room, Butterscots Bakery, Deli & Culinary Market, The Farmer & The Fox, and Cairdean’s Michelin Bib Gourmand Award-winning gastropub.

ABOUT CAIRDEAN ESTATE:

Cairdean Estate, Napa Valley’s Wine & Food Village, is a new, essential destination for California’s Wine Country. Celebrating the ever-entwining worlds of wine and food, Cairdean Estate has onsite a tasting room open daily to the public, a private, by appointment only tasting room, a 2015 Michelin Bib Gourmand Award winning gastropub,

Interior

The Farmer & The Fox, serving dinner nightly, and Butterscots Bakery & Deli, offering sandwiches, salads, pastries, baked and frozen desserts, fresh-baked breads and rolls for breakfast and lunch daily. Menus for both venues are created by San Francisco Bay Area favorite and Michelin-recognized Chef Joseph Humphrey. Both restaurants serve beer, wine and artisan craft cocktails.

Butterscots Interior

2015 will see the completion of the Wine & Food Village with the opening of Rosgal Gallery, to feature rotating exhibitions, and Redolent Mercantile, a retail experience in finds exclusive to Napa and even California. Upon completion in 2015, the Cairdean Vineyards Winery, designed by Juancarlos Fernandez and Jarrod Denton of Signum Architecture in St. Helena, will boast extensive wine caves and the largest grass roof in Napa Valley. “Cairdean” means “friends” in Scottish Gaelic and captures the heritage of owners Edwin and Stacia Williams while upholding their belief that wine and food are multi-sensory experiences best enjoyed among friends and loved ones.

artist Teri Tito woodwork

artist Ryan Sorrell

Haute Couture Paris fashion show features MIMI Tran and on aura tout vu

Recently at the legendary Fairmont Hotel in the chic Nob Hill area of San Francisco, Replete Skincare presented an Haute Couture fashion event featuring two top couture brands in the world, MIMI Tran and on aura tout vu. This was the first time the “on aura tout vu” fashion house showed their collection on American soil.

Livia Stoianova and Yassen Samouilov of the Haute Couture accessory label, on aura tout vu (which means “We will have seen everything” or “That takes the cake” in French), presented a number of looks on the runway.

Entertaining and titillating the fashionista crowd was pop singer French, who walked the catwalk with a bevy of lovely models clad in shoes by participating LA-based luxury footwear designer, Konstantina Tzovolou.

Replete Skincare donated 10% of all ticket sales for the 2014 Haute Couture Fashion event to Reason to Party, an all-volunteer San Francisco 501(3)c non-profit that raises funds in fun ways for extraordinary local nonprofits. The funds are earmarked for Samasource, a nonprofit that helps connect poor women and youth to training and employment in the digital economy.

TasteTV photographs by C. Bliss, author of Street Style San Francisco. Other partners included FSHN Magazine.

Series – Land of the Chocolate Giants Part 2

Courtesy of TasteTV

Creating compelling images using food is not new, but it is a growing trend in the world of the art.

Profile here are excerpts from TasteTV’s new photo-miniature series — soon to be a web video series, entitled “Land of the Chocolate Giants.” The entire series will be unveiled in late 2014 by TCB Cafe Publishing and TasteTV.

The chocolate included in the photo above comes from Toffee Talk

Photo Series – Land of the Chocolate Giants

Creating compelling images using food is not new, but it is a growing trend in the world of the art.

Profile here are excerpts from TasteTV’s new photo-miniature series, entitled “Land of the Chocolate Giants.” The entire series will be unveiled in Fall 2014 by TCB Cafe Publishing.

The chocolate included in these photos below comes from Forte Chocolates, Gusto Chocolates, Luxx Chocolat, French Broad Chocolates, and Kate Weiser Chocolate.

NEW IDEAS FOR A NEW WORLD