There is something irresistible about Galerie Michael on Rodeo.
Tiffany’s is unforgettable. Providing indestructible power statements for swan like throats. Enabling elegantly polished fingers to make graceful gestures with sparkling emphasis and cold fire. Embellishing elaborately coiffed heads with rainbow flashes dramatically peaking out between wild strands of hair with well planed spontaneity.
La Perla is a fun fantasy romp through sexy scraps in finest lace and satin, fringes, feathers, and crystals whose future is easy to predict. Their collections celebrate the power and art of seduction with glamour and taste showing unsurpassed attention to detail using the elegance of the roaring twenties, the colorful freedom of the sixties and the sweet pretty security of the fifties to put Fredrick’s to shame and leave Victoria in the dust.
Dior’s glamour and elegance is reflected in retro cruse wear Katherine Hepburn would be comfortable in. The models, all long hair and painted lips, southern bells with Reo attitude. Dior’s summer sheers mock modesty in a way Madonna would appreciate. Clothed and unclothed all in the same breath, fifties flirty and feminine styles with sixties colors and hemlines not to mention the ultimate cell phone that can be discretely tucked away into one of their fuchsia or orange purses. The purses so bright and cheery you could just take a bite out of them.
But Galerie Michael is timeless. The one shop on Rodeo that’s hard to resist revisiting. Like a mini museum in the middle of the block, their walls are covered with classics from Rembrandt to Picasso. The list of offerings reads like a roll call of the great masters Cassatt, Cezanne, Chagall, Degas, Dali, Toulouse Lautrec, Manet, Matisse, Picasso, Rembrandt, Renoir, Whistler… Unlike a museum though, these offerings are obtainable if one has deep enough pockets. The latest offerings are bright, colorful pieces by Alexandre Renoir, the great-grandson of Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
Tiffany’s is unforgettable. Providing indestructible power statements for swan like throats. Enabling elegantly polished fingers to make graceful gestures with sparkling emphasis and cold fire. Embellishing elaborately coiffed heads with rainbow flashes dramatically peaking out between wild strands of hair with well planed spontaneity.
La Perla is a fun fantasy romp through sexy scraps in finest lace and satin, fringes, feathers, and crystals whose future is easy to predict. Their collections celebrate the power and art of seduction with glamour and taste showing unsurpassed attention to detail using the elegance of the roaring twenties, the colorful freedom of the sixties and the sweet pretty security of the fifties to put Fredrick’s to shame and leave Victoria in the dust.
Dior’s glamour and elegance is reflected in retro cruse wear Katherine Hepburn would be comfortable in. The models, all long hair and painted lips, southern bells with Reo attitude. Dior’s summer sheers mock modesty in a way Madonna would appreciate. Clothed and unclothed all in the same breath, fifties flirty and feminine styles with sixties colors and hemlines not to mention the ultimate cell phone that can be discretely tucked away into one of their fuchsia or orange purses. The purses so bright and cheery you could just take a bite out of them.
But Galerie Michael is timeless. The one shop on Rodeo that’s hard to resist revisiting. Like a mini museum in the middle of the block, their walls are covered with classics from Rembrandt to Picasso. The list of offerings reads like a roll call of the great masters Cassatt, Cezanne, Chagall, Degas, Dali, Toulouse Lautrec, Manet, Matisse, Picasso, Rembrandt, Renoir, Whistler… Unlike a museum though, these offerings are obtainable if one has deep enough pockets. The latest offerings are bright, colorful pieces by Alexandre Renoir, the great-grandson of Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
Along with various oils of landscapes and flowers, he has rendered his own interpretation of some of his Great-Grandfather’s most famous pieces most notably “Luncheon of the Boating Party” demonstrating the versatility and variety of the human continence and how even the slightest alteration of expression or feature can change our entire perception of a situation or a person. His work does homage to the genius of his Great-Grandfather, dissecting the symphony of the crowd and distilling each moment, each conversation, each individual grouping into its own private universe. He demonstrates how independently they hold their own as compositions, adding to the whole but not dependent on it to tell their own story.
Unlike Picasso who leaves the impression he had a very strange and fragmented perception of women or Dali who had a very desolate and fluid interpretation of the world with strange juxtapositions and combinations of seemingly incompatible objects, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and his Grandson Alexandre celebrate life in a brightly colorful and positive manner that is refreshingly happy and a pleasure to perceive. A pleasant gift to the senses that leaves one walking away with a smile. No small accomplishment in today’s world. All of them make it well worth a visit, at the very least, to Galerie Michael.
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