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Twenty One Dresses !
A number of years ago, a young painting conservator entered a forgotten storeroom in a fifteenth-century Florentine villa and stumbled on a pile of Louis Vuitton steamer trunks. She opened them and discovered a collection of exquisite dresses, the kind usually seen only in movies, or inside… (Continue reading at New Yorker magazine) SO EXCITING!….just got my newest New Yorker & had to share this with you! Imagine coming across all those steamer trunks and finding these treasures, so sad…
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French Nordic
The idea of the absence of colour in my surroundings is a fairly new urge. Until recently, I have embraced colour in the home the way a woman in NYC embraces Black. Recently though, it has become obvious that natural organic elements look best surrounded by a neutral palette. I have discovered about 50 shades of white and have dismissed the grey all together. The textures of leather, sisal, wood, plaster, fur, burlap, linen, and lace, all come forward and…
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Paris in April…….
Who could resist a holiday in France surrounded by all the objects that the French do so well! So many timeworn treasures, so many beautiful words: faience, bergere, fauteille, canape, trumeau, etc.
