As you do on a Monday morning in marketing you browse your colleagues calendars to see when and where they will be going. There is always a trade show they will attend, a client they will visit, a nice exhibition opening they are invited to…
Guess where the Bridgeman Berlin Team will be going the 11th and 12th June? Not in the Dog House (ah. ah. Monday humour) but at House of Dogs : an entire trade show dedicated to Lifestyle mit Hund (hund=dog in German).
All of the sudden I find myself quite jealous of all of them for the following reasons:
1- I am a dog person (meet Olivia, my Hippo-Dog)
Olivia The Dog Hippo #oliviathedoghippo
2- They will get to enjoy 2 full (working!!) days of dogs and puppies time
3- They will have at their stand the Bridgeman Studio Artist Sally Muir who will do dog’s portraits.
Left: Sally Muir at work
Right: Lily, 2008 (oil on paper) by Sally Muir
Then you discover that lots of Brigeman’s employees are dog people and that they are equally jealous of the Berlin team. The result is this blog post, born from lots of envy and full of the Pure, Absolute Love only a dog can give you…
“Happiness is a warm puppy.” ― Charles M. Schulz
Victoria Bridgeman’s daughter Artemis, having breakfast with Raymond.
Lucy Fitzpatrick PA to Victoria Bridgeman, CEO: My godson Hugo and our family dog Paihia
“The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.”
—Charles de Gaulle
Felicity Page, Cataloguing Manager, her daughter Leonie with Rufus & Snoots in NYC
Kimberley Ahmet, Senior Manager Artists’ Collecting Society, and her Storm, Stitch and Koko.
“When an eighty-five pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it’s hard to feel sad.”
―Kristan Higgins
Charlotte Proctor Smith, Bridgeman Studio Executive and Dodie, a German pointer. Named after Dodie Smith of course!
Left: Charlotte and Dodie
Right: Charlotte’s sister Harriet and Dodie
Lucy Baxter, Commercial Director CultureLabel.com, and Lilly.
“Dogs never bite me. Just humans.” ― Marilyn Monroe
Duggan Collingwood, Collective Licensing Executive, and his 2 dogs: Greta and Watson
Left: Duggan and Greta
Right: Duggan and Watson
Beverley Hearn, Finance Manager at Artists’ Collecting Society, and her garden population
Left: Beau, a proper Canidae
Right: Fox family in Beverly’s garden ( Canidae Family)
“The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man’s.”
― Mark Twain
Flora Spens, Account Executive at Bridgeman in London, with April.
Jenny Page, Picture research Manager
Jenny’s son with Mystic
“The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.”
― Andy Rooney
Pablo Navarro MacLochlainn , Cataloguing Department, with Olivia, my Hippo as a puppy.
Pablo’s Christmas Card 2015 © Pablo Navarro MacLochlainn
Lucy Innes Williams, Bridgeman Artists Manager, with Mabel
Alan Firmin, Digital Marketing Director, and Precious:
“A word of warning to any father and spouse who says at the point of purchasing a dog, I don’t mind what you call her! “
“The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.”
― Johnny DeppMilly Graham-Watson, PA to Harriet Bridgeman (Chairman), and Kimbell
Achim Kathan, Business Development Manager in Berlin, with Debby and Kira
Left: Achim and Debby
Right: Achim and KiraKatja Sidim, Accounts and Marketing in Berlin, with her Lulu
Left: Katja and Lulu I
Right: Lulu” My little dog – a heartbeat at my feet.”- Edith Wharton
And last, but not least, Olivia, the Hippo-Dog:
#oliviathedoghippo
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