Luxury games-maker Geoffrey Parker provides you with the tools to put on a games night that would rival a Vegas casino with their latest games concept…

Priced at an extraordinary $7.5 million, this bespoke poker set includes a combination of precious stones and metals, and the beauty of it is that you are the designer. The set comes inside a genuine alligator skin case that can be ordered in the colour of your choice. It also includes a 18k white gold combination lock to secure your winnings.

Inside the case, the frame is 18k white gold with diamond and holds 384 18k white gold chips – filled on both sides with Shagreen (Stingray skin). The edge of each chip is encrusted with precious stones – white diamonds for white chips, sapphires for blue chips, rubies for the red chips, emeralds for the green and black diamonds for the black. The chips can also be custom made to any currency the owner desires. The dealer button is a larger 18k white gold chip, set with 2 rows of diamonds on the edge.

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2011 looks set to see typography explode onto the interior décor scene.   The trend for decorating walls with words is increasingly replacing the somewhat outdated tendency for covering interiors with traditional pictures.

The beauty of typographic décor is that it covers a variety of styles and can therefore generate a range of different looks, creating drama, glamour and uniqueness to a home. Clean-lined and bold text can be used to create a more modern look, whilst old correspondence imagery forms a more vintage style.

Although decorating with letters and numbers need not stop at walls, and typography is becoming an increasingly popular way of decorating items such as soft furnishings and dishware. Designer Christopher Jagmin’s artistic creation of numbers on crisp white ceramic plates, are causing a stir in the United States.

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Produced by the Visual Arts Week Society (VAWS), a non-profit society run by volunteers who share the same dedication to enlighten the public’s awareness, experience and enjoyment of contemporary architecture, design and visual arts, is the Artcity Festival, a ten day bonanza of stunningly unique art installations.

Held annually in Calgary, Artcity injects an abundance of artistic installations and projects into the urban landscape, designed for the artistic enlightenment of the citizens of Calgary as they go about their daily lives.

Founded in 1991, the Artcity Festival was formerly known as Artweek and was inaugurated to bring a focus on art projects to a city lacking in artistic focus. Throughout its 20 year history, Artcity has developed from being a small exhibition, principally embracing sculptures and paintings, into a full-scale festival renowned for its prestigious international and national assemble of professionals from the world of art and architecture.

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Whenever an inanimate object, such as a piece of furniture or an ornament, is named after a person’s name, it usually rouses some degree of interest and suspicion, causing one to intriguingly crave more information about the item. When an inert object is called ‘Rebecca’ – a quintessential English name, which emanates an air of elegance, grace and dignity – we cannot help but feel immediate warmth and fondness to the product, even before we have be told any more information about it.

Our point? Well Bizzotto Italian Sensations have cleverly named their new luxury sofa the ‘Rebecca Sofa’, and by doing so have crafted an air of allurement to the sofa even before one has cast their eyes on this beautiful piece of furniture.

All images of sophistication, style and exquisiteness the Rebecca Sofa’s name invokes in one’s mind, are pleasurably satisfied when we learn that this stunning piece of furniture features an intricate and elaborate design carved into its arms, which would bring a touch of luxury and style to almost any living room.

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Pablo Picasso is one of the most famous artists the world has ever known. The Spanish painter has long been the influence of many artists and aspiring artists worldwide, covering a wide spectrum of artistic forms. The latest genre of art to have a ‘Picasso makeover’, is abstract street art, with artist’s such as Kenny Random incorporating ‘Picasso-esque’ visions into his explorative and experimental street art.

The Italian street artist paints a distinctive assortment of images, which uniquely combine classic Picasso-inspired classical art into the accessible medium of street art and in doing so; Kenny Random provides classical art to an audience previously unmindful of the works of Picasso et al – namely the young and working class.

In blending classical styles into a modern and more ‘accessible’ medium, Kenny Random playfully interacts different styles of art to the delight of a diverse audience. Kenny Random’s work focuses on the light-hearted and almost comical. A good example of the humour Random expresses in his work is his ‘Silhouette Graffiti’ that he paints on the walls of Padova in Italy. Part of his ‘Silhouette Graffiti’ is of a shadow man, mischievously walking around the graffiti-embezzled streets looking like he is the one doing the spray painting. The artist’s much admired ‘shadow man’ is often accompanied with an equally mischievous cat, wandering across the walls and over the graffiti.

Kenny Random’s humorous street art has, either wittingly or unwittingly, been influenced by some of Picasso’s post-war masterpieces, many of which expressed humour and light-heartedness, such as his depiction of a , ‘Chat et homard’.

With artist’s such as Kenny Random interrelating the work of one of finest artist’s the world has ever seen into an accessible and modern genre of artistic expression, a new and young generation are lapping up this form of art. As a consequence of this previously ‘unassimilated’ blend, street artist blogs are now established titled, “You ain’t got no Picasso, yo?!”