November 10, 2008 by Alex Caldwell
For my readers who like to browse our web site but don’t happen to have an American Express Platinum Card or aren’t Centurion members, I want to give you a glimpse of their reading material.
The November/December 2008 issue of Departures features our exquisite handcrafted Fabergé style Haute Couture Silver Diamond/Emerald purse.
This is a one of a kind creation, carefully crafted using the techniques and precious materials that made Fabergé famous.
October 20, 2008 by Alex Caldwell
On Sept 25, the LSUE Foundation and Friends of the LeDoux Library hosted a lecture and exhibition of Objets D’Art highlighting the art designs and replica Fabergé eggs that I have been designing and creating for the past 20 years. These are truly labors of love with each design taking up to three years from start to finish.
Some of the Vivian Alexander eggs were on display with each egg possessing its own unique quality. The gem-encrusted Renaissance Egg valued at $35,000 (one of my personal favorites) was among those showcased. Other featured eggs included the Smirnoff Egg which was requested by the Smirnoff Company and designed with brilliant red and silver designs, a replica of the Rothschild Egg – a clock egg — and the Imperial Coronation egg – a brilliant gold egg placed inside a larger egg — used as a prop in the Warner Brothers movie, “Ocean’s 12.”
Several of these art pieces are currently on display in the LeDoux Library’s reading room.
Please click here to access a .pdf file of the exhibition article that appeared in The Eunice News titled, “Egg-stravagant Art.”
October 10, 2008 by Alex Caldwell
After Storage in a Museum Vault for Twenty Two Years it’s Revealed!
With the gracious generosity of the Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum this Hayes Town Egg sculpture will be on display for the first time ever. The Vivian Alexander Gallery and Museum will have this sculpture on display at the Acadiana Center for the Arts on Vermilion St. in Lafayette for one day, Thursday, October 23, 2008.
Twenty two years ago Alexander Caldwell was commissioned by A. Hayes Town, a most influential architect in the history of Louisiana, to create an egg sculpture to commemorate this famous architect’s work. Alexander chose the Museum on St. Mary Blvd. as the center of his commissioned piece; he decided that this structure embodied everything that was Town’s legacy as well as his major contribution to Lafayette and USL historical architecture.
In addition to an exact scale model of the Museum, many small and innocuous areas of the sculpture are embedded with symbols that make it a historical chronicle that is the fame of Hayes Town.
For further details on the background history of this three-dimensional work of art, kept in the dark for two decades, click here.
May 3, 2008 by Alex Caldwell
FINALLY! The Grandeur of the 1930’s has returned!
If you really want to make an impression, if you want your couture persona to be beyond anyone else, if you want to be noticed and admired, you have that opportunity today. The Vivian Alexander Silver Clutch is unique in the world, they are made individually, by hand, by highly skilled craftsmen, under the direct supervision of Alexander.
March 5, 2008 by Alex Caldwell
Remember those fleeting single digit years when you held up your fingers when they asked your age? You were dressed in your starched Easter finery to promenade with your proud parents. At Vivian Alexander we remember and introduce this truly unique Easter purse that is sure to be an instant heirloom gift when she takes it out of the presentation box. The Easter purse will be treasured forever and one day she will let her daughter join the Easter Parade.
