Maidstone Museum's Golden East Wing Extension

Maidstone Museum has added a striking new golden East Wing to its listed Elizabethan building. The two gold copper alloy shingle and glass clad extensions were designed by architect Hugh Broughton. As featured this month (July 12) in Elle Decoration. We were inspired to find some more stunning gold buildings from around Europe......

Bibliothek Luckenwalde, Germany

Tour des Arts, Les Herbiers, France

Auditorium Atlantida, Vic, Spain

Jubilee Banner Adorned with 500,000 Gold Buttons

The artist Ann Carrington has created a velvet banner to hang from the stern of the Royal Barge for the Thames Diamond Jubilee procession. The magnificent red banner is embroidered with over half a million golden buttons which took 4 months to sew on. The banner takes its design inspiration from the  Coronation Crown as well as another 'Royal' tradition -  the London Pearly Kings and Queens who have been embellishing their suits with pearl buttons since the 19th century. The end result is stunning and altogether fitting for the Royal Jubilee Barge. But much as we love gold here at BeGolden, we reckon that sewing on half a million gold buttons represents a real labour of love and must have nearly driven Ann and her team crazy!

Jessie J in those gold jeans...

She looked amazing. How she carries off the outfits she wears is an extraordinary sartorial feat. There are so many reasons to watch The Voice ( Will.I.am, Danny...) but the thing that keeps me coming back is 'what will Jessie be wearing?'

If I could get those trousers past my knees I'd wear them.

Seletti Coffee Pot Featured in the Evening Standard

Thanks to the Evening Standard featuring our stunning Gold Seletti Coffee Pot we're now having to re-order. We love it when that happens. Picked up as one of the gems from the Ideal Home Show it caught the eye of so many people that we've been inundated with orders.   We are getting new stock in for the beginning of May so pre-order now if you want to join the queue.

Alison@Home at the Ideal Home Exhibition

Within two weeks of us stocking the Seletti Gold Coffee Pot it was spotted by the savvy scouts at Alison@Home. Clever girls. It is such a beautiful item: perfectly glossy; traditional yet contemporary; practical and at a good price. Who could ask for more?

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It was placed on their stand at the IdealHome Exhibition and quite rightly stood out from the crowd. Why have a normal coffee pot when you can have a cleverly designed gold one?!

Would Louis XV have loved BeGolden?

We think he would have, and so does Katrina Burroughs. In an article written in the Sunday Times Home Section at the end of March Katrina talks of how we there is a current move by designers to 'bring flamboyance, frivolity and sparkle in from the cold'. We couldn't agree more - every room benefits from a touch of glamorous gold! The conclusion of the article reads, "If you feel you could be converted back to gold, but need persuading, browse the glittery kit at www.begolden.co.uk, from the tiny round gold framed mirrors to a Seletti gilded egg box. Louis XV would have loved that". Praise indeed.

Golden Globe Chefs put Gold on the Puds

Well what an idea and what a controversy! Not sure quite how I feel about it. I'm usually well up for gold on everything, but do we really need to eat it?

The chefs ,Thomas Henzi and Suki Sugiura, decided to put real gold flakes on the dessert which was "a chocolate delice, almond crunch terrine, garnished with acacia honey, caramel and fresh berries" sprinkled with edible flakes at $135 a gram. Imagine. All swigged down with a glug of Moet & Chandon Grand Vintage 2002.

The issue is, is this fair and right when so many are living on the poverty line?

Answers on a postcard...