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Gabriel Barbier-Mueller is the founder and CEO of Harwood International. [1] Gabriel was born and raised in Geneva, Switzerland. He came to Dallas in 1979 and graduated from Dallas's Southern Methodist University. He married Texan Ann Smith. [2]
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Gabriel Barbier-Mueller is the founder and CEO of Harwood International. [1] Gabriel was born and raised in Geneva, Switzerland. He came to Dallas in 1979 and graduated from Dallas's Southern Methodist University. He married Texan Ann Smith. [2]
Barbier is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Sangu is the term for the three armour components that protected the extremities of the samurai class of feudal Japan.
First Presbyterian Church of Dallas is a historic congregation at 1835 Young Street in the Farmers Market District of downtown Dallas, Texas (USA). The current building is a contributing property in the Harwood Street Historic District and a Dallas Landmark. The congregation was founded in 1856 as the first U.S. (Southern) Presbyterian Church organized in Dallas, and is the mother church from which many other Presbyterian churches in the area have stemmed.
The Barbier-Mueller Museum, founded in 1977, is located at 10 rue Jean-Calvin, in Geneva, Switzerland. Its collection contains over 7,000 pieces and includes works of art from Tribal and Classical antiquity as well as sculptures, fabrics and ornaments from "primitive" civilizations around the world. Its goal is to preserve, study, and publish the collection begun by Josef Müller in 1907 and carried on by his daughter Monique and son-in-law Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller.
717 Harwood is a skyscraper in Downtown Dallas, Texas. The building rises 481 feet. It contains 34 floors, and was completed in 1980. 717 Harwood currently stands as the 22nd-tallest building in the city. The building is well known for its sloping exterior glass walls, which slant inward from the building's top floor to ground level. 717 Harwood is owned by SKW Funding, a New York–based real estate investment firm.
The Museu Barbier-Mueller d'Art Precolombí was the only museum in Europe devoted exclusively to the artistic legacy of the pre-Columbian cultures of the Americas. It was located in the Catalan capital of Barcelona, Spain. The museum was established in 1997 to house the pre-Columbian art collection formerly held by its parent museum, the Barbier-Mueller Museum in Genève, Switzerland, which was loaned to the city of Barcelona. In 2012, the museum was unable to reach a purchase agreement with the collection's owner Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller. Subsequently, the world's most important Pre-Columbian collection in private hands was split and auctioned at Southeby's on 22 March 2013.
The Harwood Street Historic District is a historic commercial district and Dallas Landmark District on the east end of downtown Dallas, Texas lying in parts of the City Center District, Main Street District and Farmers Market District. The locally protected district generally encompasses structures in the blocks fronting Harwood Street from Pacific Avenue to Canton Street.
The Dallas Municipal Building is a Dallas Landmark located along S. Harwood Street between Main and Commerce Street in the Main Street District of downtown Dallas, Texas that served as the city's fourth City Hall. The structure is also a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark and a contributing property in the Harwood Street Historic District, located across the street from Main Street Garden Park.
The Dallas Hilton, constructed as the Hilton Hotel and today operating as the Hotel Indigo Dallas Downtown, is a historic hotel opened in 1925, located at the corner of Main Street and S. Harwood Street in downtown Dallas, Texas (USA). The hotel is a contributing property in the Harwood Street Historic District and Main Street District. It is also located across the street from Main Street Garden Park.
Andrew Allen Harwood was an admiral in the United States Navy.
Abumi (鐙), Japanese stirrups, were used in Japan as early as the 5th century, and were a necessary component along with the Japanese saddle (kura) for the use of horses in warfare. Abumi became the type of stirrup used by the samurai class of feudal Japan.
Alessandro Lionardi or Leonardi was an Italian poet from Padova, active in the mid-16th century. He was a doctor of law, and author of an important treatise on poetry and rhetoric, the Dialogi. He is the author of the texts of Alfonso Ferrabosco's five-voice madrigals Vidi pianger madonna and Come dal ciel seren rugiada sole.
The Fondation Barbier-Mueller pour l'étude de la poésie italienne de la Renaissance, or "Barbier-Mueller foundation for the study of Italian Renaissance poetry", is a Swiss foundation. It forms part of the faculty of Letters of the University of Geneva. It was created in 1997 when the Swiss collector Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller, author of Ma Bibliothèque poétique, donated his collection of early and rare editions of Italian Renaissance poetry to the university. The collection currently consists of approximately 550 volumes, which are housed in the Bibliothèque d’Italien, the Italian section of the library of the faculty.
Kurabit is a traditional shield originating from the Mentawai Islands off the coast of West Sumatra, Indonesia.
The Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Museum, also known as The Samurai Collection, is a museum of samurai armor located at 2501 North Harwood Street, Dallas, Texas, USA. It contains nearly three hundred Japanese samurai objects, including suits of armor, helmets, masks, horse armor, and weaponry, dating from the 12th to the 19th century AD with a focus on the Edo period.
A Glagwa is a bell-shaped shield of the Wandala peoples of northern Cameroon.
A Nguba is a basket shield of the peoples of the Oubangui region in the Republic of Congo.
A dwa or asesedwa or sometimes gwa is a stool of the Ashantis of Ghana.
Josef Müller was a Swiss art collector and curator.
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