I cannot let you burn me up, nor can I resist you. No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.
Who am I? Christabel LaMotte:
quote above ….http://rogerebert.suntimes.com
I cannot let you burn me up, nor can I resist you. No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.
Who am I? Christabel LaMotte:
quote above ….http://rogerebert.suntimes.com
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Specs: Stuart Weitzman designed the satin open toe stilettos around a pair of earrings owned by movie legend Rita Hayworth.The earrings are laden with rubies, sapphires and diamonds. |
#1′s Claim to Shoe Fame: For the 2006 Academy Awards, musician and Oscar-nominee Kathleen “Bird” York was tapped to wear Stuart Weitzman’s latest over-the-top creations.
The shoes “centerpieces” were diamond and precious gemstone earrings from the estate of late 40′s movie siren Rita Hayworth, and now belong to Hayworth’s daughter, Princess Yasmin Aga Khan.
Convulvulus, dahlias, lupins and stocks in a Greek vase
Johan Laurentz Jensen (Danish, 1800-1856)
Convulvulus, dahlias, lupins and stocks in a Greek vase
signed and dated ‘J.L.Jensen 1838.’ (lower right)
oil on canvas
Watch this movie! Below are the links to the catalog look at her work fabulous!
Exhibition in Paris, Musée Maillol – October 2008 to March 2009. The french catalog is here. Please, look at the beautiful pieces of painting.
Séraphine Louis was born in Arsy (Oise) on September 3, 1864. Her father was a manual laborer and her mother came from a farmworking background. Séraphine’s mother died on her first birthday and her father, who remarried, also died before she was seven; at which point, she came under the charge of her eldest sister. She first worked as a shepherdess but, by 1881, she was engaged as a domestic worker at the convent of the Sisters of Providence in Clermont (Oise). Beginning in 1901, she was employed as a housekeeper for middle class families in the city of Senlis.
Art experts think they may have found the world’s oldest painting to feature an image of a watch.
The Science Museum is investigating the 450-year-old portrait, thought to be of Cosimo I de Medici, Duke of Florence, holding a golden timepiece.
Curators have sent their findings to renaissance experts at the Uffizi gallery in Florence, and are awaiting their comments.
The painting is being shown as part of the museum’s Measuring Time gallery.
The first watches appeared shortly after 1500 in Germany and horologists believe the picture, painted by renaissance master Maso da San Friano around 1560, “may well be the oldest to show a true watch”.
The Crandall – New Model is one of the most beautiful typewriters ever made. It has a wonderful curved and ornate Victorian design and is lavishly decorated with hand painted roses, accented with inlaid mother-of-pearl!
Lucien S. Crandall was born in Broome County New York in 1844. He would become one of the great early typewriter pioneers during the 1860s and 1870s. He patented perhaps ten typewriters with about six being manufactured. All of his designs are very intriguing and brilliantly imagined machines. The Crandall – New Model was his third typewriter to be manufactured but the first to have a fair success in sales.
The Crandall was the first typewriter to print from a single element or “type-sleeve”, well before IBM’s “Golf ball” of 1961. This type-sleeve is a cylinder, about the size of your finger, which rotates and rises up one or two positions before striking the roller, achieving 84 characters with only 28 keys. The type-sleeve is easy to remove, allowing for change of font style and character size.
This typewriter sold for $50.00 to $75.00.
Is this not the most beautiful typewriter you have ever seen!
Behind the door, under a thick layer of dusk lay a treasure trove of turn-of-the-century objects including a painting by the 19th century Italian artist Giovanni Boldini.
The woman who owned the flat had left for the south of France before the Second World War and never returned.
But when she died recently aged 91, experts were tasked with drawing up an inventory of her possessions and homed in on the flat near the Trinité church in Paris between the Pigalle red light district and Opera.
Entering the untouched, cobweb-filled flat in Paris’ 9th arrondissement, one expert said it was like stumbling into the castle of Sleeping Beauty, where time had stood still since 1900.
“There was a smell of old dust,” said Olivier Choppin-Janvry, who made the discovery. Walking under high wooden ceilings, past an old wood stove and stone sink in the kitchen, he spotted a stuffed ostrich and a Mickey Mouse toy dating from before the war, as well as an exquisite dressing table.
But he said his heart missed a beat when he caught sight of a stunning tableau of a woman in a pink muslin evening dress.
The painting was by Boldini and the subject a beautiful Frenchwoman who turned out to be the artist’s former muse and whose granddaughter it was who had left the flat uninhabited for more than half a century.
The muse was Marthe de Florian, an actress with a long list of ardent admirers, whose fervent love letters she kept wrapped neatly in ribbon and were still on the premises. Among the admirers was the 72nd prime minister of France, George Clemenceau, but also Boldini.
The expert had a hunch the painting was by Boldini, but could find no record of the painting. “No reference book dedicated to Boldini mentioned the tableau, which was never exhibited,” said Marc Ottavi, the art specialist he consulted about the work.
When Mr Choppin-Janvry found a visiting card with a scribbled love note from Boldini, he knew he had struck gold. “We had the link and I was sure at that moment that it was indeed a very fine Boldini”.
He finally found a reference to the work in a book by the artist’s widow, which said it was painted in 1898 when Miss de Florian was 24.
The starting price for the painting was €300,000 but it rocketed as ten bidders vyed for the historic work. Finally it went under the hammer for €2.1 million, a world record for the artist.
“It was a magic moment. One could see that the buyer loved the painting; he paid the price of passion,” said Mr Ottavi.
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Click on the pictures! Amazing carved dresser, wonder what the magazines are?
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Love the paintings, the Pier mirror, the way everything is perfectly faded.
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How about that emu, and the fabulous scarf. Amazing!
André Castaigne und Jean-Léon Gérôme
“They Sat Like That For A Moment Of Silence” by Andre Castaigne
The Phantom of the Opera LEROUX, GASTON
Book Description: Indianapolis Bobbs Merrill 1911, 1911. First Edition – American. Very minor small rubbed spot on the rear board, else a fine fresh copy with the white lettering fully intact and bright. Illustrated with color paintings by Andre Castaigne. A very influential novel and the basis of many film adaptations, firstly with Lon Chaney Senior in 1925, as well of the basis of the Andrew Lloyd WebberÕs musical – one of the most successful of all time. Bookseller Inventory # 13656J
Price: US$ 1500.00
This is a lovely vintage advertisement for Le NARCISSE NOIR (1911), NUIT de NOEL (1922) and N’ AIMEZ QUE MOI (1916) perfumes by PARFUMES CARON
Founded in 1904 by Ernest Daltroff, Parfums Caron has a rich heritage in perfumery and is still considered a true fragrance house, a distinction very few companies hold. Caron is one of the great Paris houses to still remain entirely devoted to fragrance and one of the last perfume houses to still have an in-house ‘nose’ (Monsieur Fraysse) – also called a master perfumer. It is the only perfume house that is perfume led, not fashion led.
Lovely photo of Leslie Caron in An American in Paris
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It’s a long story of how I came up with the idea to learn how to play Mah’jong. A really good friend of mine mentioned they had an old game that was their father’s and I did some researching for her and suddenly, I was yearning to play Mahjong! By chance, I watched the movie the “Joy Luck Club” and you guessed it, the movie was centered around the game of Mah’jong. I even bought a painting similar to the one hanging on the wall in the movie! I was also fascinated about their jewelry, specifically the jade and the defined meanings of it . In the Chinese Empire, jade was considered the most noble of all gems…. “This gemstone is one of the few stones that can never hurt or bring negative influences on the individual who wears it. I wear this next to my heart. Now, you wear next to yours. It will help you know. I see you. I see you.” Quoted from the book, Joy Luck Club.
The old woman remembered a swan she had bought many years ago in Shanghai for a foolish sum. “This bird,” boasted the market vendor, “was once a duck that stretched its neck in hopes of becoming a goose. And now look, it is too beautiful to eat!” Then the woman and the swan sailed across an ocean many thousands of lei wide, stretching their necks toward America. On her journey, she cooed to the swan, “In America, I will have a daughter just like me. But over there, nobody will determine her worth by measuring the loudness of her husbands belch. Over there, nobody will look down on her because I will make her speak only perfect American English. And over there, she will always be too full to swallow any sorrow. She will know my meaning because I will give her this swan, a creature that became more than what was hoped for.” But when she arrived in the new country the immigration officials pulled the swan away from her, leaving the woman fluttering her arms and with only one swan feather for a memory. For a long time now, the women had wanted to give her daughter the single swan feather and tell her, “This feather may look worthless, but it comes from afar and carries with it all my good intentions.”
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