victoria thorne

21.4.10

so much to love about san francisco; why not stop by the ferry building and see

the heavenly

goodies

culinaire

(snapped these in february,

perhaps they're still there...if

not, something else wonderful

is surely in store. i promise.)

campfire girl

picked this up a few years ago

for a shop window I was

working on; was going to put it in

with wispy hostess aprons in organdy

and calico, and a few delectable

buff-colored enamel plates trimmed

in faded granny apple green

[& there was a lovely stodgy tin

coffee pot, the color of wisteria leaves]

sort of a tribute to the June Cleavers

of the covered-wagon set . . .

20.4.10

thankfully rather not uncluttered

einstein's desk here

flame-heart

unerringly beautiful

(black tulips)

the right honourable

you have been here sometime

" . . . So much in ten brief years! I have forgot

What time the purple apples come to juice,
And what month brings the shy forget-me-not.
I have forgot the special, startling season
Of the pimento's flowering and fruiting;
What time of year the ground doves brown the fields . . . "

Flame-Heart

Claude McKay

18.4.10

daisy deux

daisy fellowes

cecil beaton

via

the

national portrait gallery

london

from the collection of Daisy Fellowes

to reveal a main compartment

signed by Monture Cartier

one ruby deficient

as a ladybird

all photos:

Sotheby's

(Reading another marvelous book that the Aesthete recommends, and loving it; went to research Daisy Fellowes & along came a ladybird . . . here are links -- click each line above -- to fascinating items from the collection of "Daisy Fellowes who vacationed in the Côte d'Azur." Via Sotheby's.)

in the best of all possible worlds

“When you are content to be simply

yourself and don’t compare or compete,

everybody will respect you.”

Lao-Tzu

(quote via Gretchen Rubin and

her delightful happy project)

[+ liebniz, title]

16.4.10

busy these days;

cooking up good

things for later

more soon

11.4.10

Nothing is ever invented

" 'Nothing is ever invented,'

Talking About Fashion by Christian Dior"

m. b. goffstein has just published

heaven with notes, here

(word on the notes:

they are

exceedingly

delicious

you will find them

at the end of each

of the novelettos)

photo: m. b. goffstein,

Governor Yang's Diner

Rabanus Maurus

ever since searching for

illuminations & such

last week, i've become (once again)

slightly obsessed with them

(this has been going on for years)

you'll probably be seeing a few more

(i hope to keep better notes, too;

this image, clearly, is from the vatican.

here, a link to the secret archives. oh my.)

[clicking on this image

and enlarging it will

help illustrate what's

to be so obsessed about]

p. s. This looks excellent.

9.4.10

coasting

We have been all about

Easter vacation around

here, lately, and most

efforts have been going

to enjoying the time with

loved ones far and near;

sometimes you prep for

these things for weeks,

don't you, and then they

go by so very quickly?

That's pretty much the

case right now. While

we are still enjoying

the luxury of the next

few days of visits, and

I continue to coast in

posts (hence my pro-

clivity for sending you

elsewhere for the last

several pages at least) . .

well, thought I'd share

more favorites now &

say tschüss for a bit or so.

mr. huntington flies south

g. mcboingboing

p&c

it's never too late to be

(I've added an illustration below -- a great

favorite by the exceedingly remarkable

Ivan Terestchenko -- that might better explain

Horst and Hound.

Thank you, Little Augury,

for the image & your magnificent taste.)

$169,900 (via the Aesthete)

perhaps it's finally

time to set up boxes,

get out your packing tape,

call the moving van?

all because of this:

Marcel Breuer

in Canajoharie

Four Winds

via

An Aesthete's Lament

(do stop by and see it)

7.4.10

how greenwillow got it's name

from the greenwillow blog,

a post by Susan Hirschman

6.4.10

Why I Paint . . .

They abound in the heavens and earths.

They are museums . . .

They are ground into artists pigments

Of almost every color.

...

excerpted from

Why I Paint Crystals

M. B. Goffstein

5.4.10

très magnifique

le divan fumoir bohémien

2.4.10

just right

liza corbett

31.3.10

wendy ewald

"I taught the children how to use Polaroid cameras to photograph inside their tiny, crowded rooms. I also asked the children to photograph their dreams. Uryi said he hadn’t dreamed since leaving Belarus; he wanted to make photographs of 'a police dream' he’d had back home." Wendy Ewald, from Photography Changes Personal History