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What I Buy and Why: Design Collector and Fair Director Jill Bokor on the Danger of Buying a Chair That You Can’t Actually Sit in
Jill Bokor has worn many hats in excess of the earlier 3 decades. Acquiring held positions in the publishing, nonprofit, and gallery worlds, she now sales opportunities the Salon Artwork + Design and style honest. The following edition of the function opens Thursday, November 10 at the Park Avenue Armory and operates by November 14. Like the honest she has led for the previous 11 years, Bakor’s personal assortment fuses art and layout from throughout intervals. Bokor commenced her publishing vocation at New York magazine, and later served as publisher of Artwork + Auction in the late 1980s and ’90s. She was also director of major items at Town Harvest…
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Where does the UK sit in the world’s turbulent energy landscape?
Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Over the past 12 months the UK government has ramped up its ambitions in the energy and climate space, starting with the Prime Minister’s ten-point plan in late 2020. Since then, we have had a net-zero strategy and separate strategies for industrial decarbonisation, hydrogen, and heat and buildings, to name a few. In November the government hosted the Cop26 climate negotiations in Glasgow, and although progress was limited, the aim of keeping global warming to 1.5 degrees this century remains just about alive. However, for UK households there are more immediate concerns, with petrol prices hitting a record high in October, gas and electricity prices also skyrocketing, and potentially worse to come. For now, affordability relates to fossil fuels and not a future clean-energy system. In early December, at the World Petroleum Congress…