…And it doesn’t involve champagne!

The ‘Jetlag Sleeping Capsule’ was recently featured in Veuve Clicquot’s “Once Upon a Dream” exhibit at DesignMiami. It was created by designer Mathieu Lehanneur, who studied the research of sleep specialists to design a space that provides what is said to be the perfect sleeping environment by touch, sight, smell and sound.

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The world’s most expensive book has been sold in London, and a new world record has been set for the priciest printed book ever sold at auction.

John James Audubon’s Bird’s of America sold for an impressive £7,321,250 ($11,542,683) at Sotheby’s in London recently. It is considered to be one of the most monumental printed books ever produced, containing 435 hand coloured prints of around 497 bird species made from engraved copper plates. Standing at over 3 foot tall, the book is practically life size.

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A fashion for dark, sinister and macabre art is set to explode onto the art scene in 2011. Fore-fronting the contemporary flare to produce baleful, creepy and slightly bizarre art is Swedish artist Mia Makila.

Mia Makila, who is best known Boschian style in her mixed media works, is influenced by the work of modern film directors, including Ingmar Bergman, Tim Burton and John Waters. As well as being affected by contemporary cinema, Makila’s work often projects the menacing and Gothic style of the 14^th century, which was dominated by dark oil paintings that represented a shift from the Dark ages into a more civilized and prosperous society.

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The 45-year old recently walked away with £25,000 and the title of crowned champion of the 2010’s prestigious Turner Prize.

The Turner prize is the most prominent and often controversial British art prize, and Susan Philipsz has now become the first person in the history of the award to have created something that you can’t see or touch. The artist, born in Glasgow, Scotland, created a sound installation featuring her own singing voice, singing a 16^th century traditional Scottish song named ‘Lowlands Away’; a song about a drowned sailor that comes back to bid a final farewell to their lover.

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A 71-year-old former electrician and his wife uncovering a trove containing 271 undocumented, never-seen-before works by Pablo Picasso, estimated to be worth at least 60 million euros, is the narrative of a Walt Disney Classic. Although this extraordinary tale is very real. 

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