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EMILLIONS ART

Emillions Art LLC, an art consultant and online gallery globally connected to the best resources in the world. A very respected source for modern and old masterpieces, Emillions are well-known purveyors of contemporary works for collectors beginning to access the art market or those looking to diversify their collections. Emillions hold extensive contacts in New York, London, Dubai, Madrid, Paris, Monaco, Marbella, Miami, Boston, and Naples. Emillions has privileged access to private collections of masterworks curated from today’s top emerging contemporary artists. In addition they collaborate with artists in all media, including painting, photography, sculpture, carvings, and works on paper. Emillions Art 837 Fifth Ave S 34102

SHELDON FINE ART

With over 35 years in the making, Sheldon Art has provided fine art to art collectors from around the world. They proudly represent two hundred American and international artists across their coastal gallery locations in Naples, Florida and New port Rhode Island with a sister gallery in Saratoga Springs, New York. The breadth of their collection spans from the most modern in abstract and emerging contemporary art, seascapes, landscapes, to traditional maritime. Sheldon Fine Art provides their visionary creations in hope to inspire their clients and their personal environments for many years to come. Sheldon Fine Art 460 Fifth Ave S 34102

M.C. ESCHER’S IMPRINT: REALITY AND ILLUSION

Naples Art Institute to lead a new, mind-bending exhibition of first hand 150 masterworks of one of the most brilliant artists of the 20th century.

BY ANNA CATHERINE BLOCK

Known for creating sophisticated exhibitions that fuse traditional and contemporary, Naples Art Institute has become an industry leader in the design and arts community. The Institute is currently showcasing Reality and Illusion, an exhibition that offers a rare and thrilling privilege of examining first-hand 150 masterworks of Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972), one of the most brilliant artists of the 20th century. Drawn from the largest private traveling Escher collection in the world, the exhibition includes early figure drawings, less-known book illustrations, detailed Italian landscapes, the “tessellations” for which he became famous, and several examples of his signature architectural fantasies in which stairways seem to go both up and down. The most iconic of these works, including a pair of hands drawing and fish morphing into birds, are familiar to most people. “Following in the footsteps of our exhibition with selections from the William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation, Reality and Illusion features work by another autodidact and outsider artist with a unique vantage point. Like Hieronymus Bosch and Rene Magritte, Escher was an enigmatic and pioneering artist who boldly explored the world of mindbending, confounding, illusionary artwork that defies logic but is rooted in mathematics,” said Frank Verpoorten, the Executive Director and Chief Curator of Naples Art Institute. M.C. Escher used his work to challenge perspectives, deftly exploring the relationships between art and science, reality and illusion, chaos and order, and logic and absurdity. “Are you really sure that a floor can’t also be a ceiling?” asked Escher. “Are you definitely convinced that you will be on a higher plane when you walk up a staircase?” Such musings led to “mind-bending” qualities in his spatial illusions and have lent his imagery an enduring place in pop culture iconography. “As the lender of these M.C. Escher masterpieces, it gives me great joy to see them on display in Naples for the first time ever,” said Paul Firos, founder of the Herakleidon Museum in Athens, Greece. “I have long loved M.C. Escher for his attention to detail and mathematical principles. I look forward to sharing these Escher treasures at Naples Art Institute, and I hope guests are as fascinated as I am by the depth and beauty of the Escher experience.” Reality and Illusion is on view at Naples Art Institute through February 12. Naples Art Institute 585 Park Street 34102

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Kathie and Jacqui Resop, mother-daughter duo and best friends on all things wedding planning, staying in their own lane and staying true to themselves.

BY ANNA CATHERINE BLOCK

Haute Living: Being a mother-daughter duo, what do you love most about working together?

SBS Weddings & Events: We have always been extremely close as mom and daughter and are inherently best friends, so it just seems natural to work together and not so much “a job”. We both enjoy different aspects of the planning process and handle our respective responsibilities, so everything just clicks and runs seamlessly. While we have additional day-of assistants, we can’t imagine running this business without each other.

HL: How did you navigate your business and clients postHurricane Ian and its destruction to your venues?

Jacqui Resop: It’s so devastating to see the destruction done to some of our favorite venues throughout Southwest Florida. Some have recently reopened, while others may not open for at least another year or even more. There are still so many unknowns. We, personally, were fortunate to never lose power or cell service, so I was able to remain in constant contact with our out-of-state clients, keeping them informed and updated throughout the storm and the days following. We had a wedding on October 8th that was supposed to be at the Ritz Carlton Beach Resort and within a matter of 5 days, we completely flipped the entire wedding to the Four Seasons in Orlando, which we had never even been to. We had to notify all vendors of the immediate change in plans and find new vendors in the Orlando area to service the wedding. There are so many logistics that go into a single wedding day, and I still can’t believe what the entire vendor team was able to accomplish in a matter of days and on such short notice. We had to do the same thing all over again just two weeks later for another 200+ person wedding. We relocated a total of 9 weddings, half of which were between October – December and the other half are still upcoming in spring