Nicky Haslam on Love in a Mist

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 haslam in lavender

 (image from here)

"There is a lovely flower,  pale mauve-blue, in every English garden, called Love-in-a-Mist, in itself a pretty name. As a child, I thought it was called Lavender Mist, even prettier..."  Nicholas Haslam

haslam's love in the mist

(image from here)

monet's le parlement, effet de brouillard  

pollock's lavender mist

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Vintage Ads for Jewelry

I honestly didn’t realize what I was getting myself into here. I thought it would be seasonally appropriate to post some vintage jewelry ads. I was little prepared for how vast a universe that is. Ads are a chief tool for identification and dating. Vintage jewelry is so widely collected that the online resources are plentiful. As for the Trifari pieces in the ads here, if there's something you just have to have, you might be in luck.
Morning Glory Antiques has a number of pages for Trifari jewelry, where they pair an actual piece with the its original vintage ad.

Trifari, late 1930s to mid 1940s

Trifari, mid-1960s


Trifari, c. 1950
Coro, c. 1958
Castlecliff, c. 1946
Richelieu, c. 1958
Monet, c. 1966Monet, c. 1963

For about a decade, starting around 1950, Cadillac
ran ads pairing cars with bling from luxury jewelers,
Van Cleef & Arpels, Harry Winston, and Cartier.


De Mario, c. 1958

Pixelated Monet

Akris Spring 2009~ inspired by Monet

Akris designer, Albert Kriemler had the company's textile mills in St. Gallen, Switzerland pixelate "photographs of gardens and the impressionistic results calls to mind Monet at Giverny" (from the Style.com Spring 2009 review)

From this point of view, I wonder if the mill pixelated this Monet painting:

Monet's "The Houses of Parliament"

Akris' gorgeous floating Monet