Tag: Gilles Larrain

It's no secret that we here at Scallywag and Vagabond are great fans of the monthly art salons that take place at the accomplished Gilles and Louda Larrain's Soho enclave (in fact so are the NY Times, but that...

Art Salon: Where creativity is cause for celebration. That's not the official tagline of the Salonistas, but it may as well be. As anyone who's been paying attention already knows, Art Salon is the monthly fête where featured...

College conditionals all of us - bros, hipsters, alts, scenesters, nerds, et al. - that the weekend really begins on Thursday night. So what to do on a Thursday when the college days end and we're all financing our...

Finally, I found an artist who would paint a nude model on the back of another nude model.  Another check off the wish list for this young fellow.  This was just a tease of what Gilles and Louda Larrain...

The idea of the salon has always had us in captive appreciation. In short it is the collective participation of bon vivants and their assailants in a communal dossier where by thoughts, good wine, music, literature and captive ideas...

People in this city talk persistently of art’s coming death. You’ve met them. You might have even thought it yourself, feared that all artists genuinely nourished by the taste of beauty rather than billion dollar champagne have lapsed into...

If you’ve ever wanted to know how to make a dramatic entrance to an exclusive party, just ask fashion and fabric designer Louda. She managed to cause quite the stir when she entered the Egyptian wing of the Metropolitan...

Gilles Larrain, preeminent SoHo photographer, artist, and flamenco guitarist has added another notch to his belt: supporter of New York City studio artists (and damn good party host). Along with organizer Thomas Shelford and Gilles’ wife Louda, Larrain opened...