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Showing posts with label Devastating Beauty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Devastating Beauty. Show all posts
random
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don't you have odds and ends about the house you should do something with?
no doubt.
it's like that here- things I want you to see and are a bit- late, odd, out of context- you know the sort.
for instance:
Is anything really random?
Is there meaning in a few words? images?
do we search, unrelenting, to make sense of it all?
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image from the World of Interiors
Anne Marie Saint make-up test
don't you have odds and ends about the house you should do something with?
no doubt.
it's like that here- things I want you to see and are a bit- late, odd, out of context- you know the sort.
for instance:
Asheville
by de Kooning
Pietro Perugino
Snow White Lamentation
by Hurter
an enameled suit of armor
Is anything really random?
Is there meaning in a few words? images?
do we search, unrelenting, to make sense of it all?
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Devastating
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[when asked what had held up her dress in Gilda (1946)] "Two things."
"Most men fell in love with Gilda and wakened with me."
I've been watching a lot of her lately.
"I think all women have a certain elegance about them which is destroyed when they take off their clothes."
"No one can be Gilda twenty-four hours a day."
[when asked what had held up her dress in Gilda (1946)] "Two things."
"Most men fell in love with Gilda and wakened with me."
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Marella Agnelli's New York
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Marella Agnelli's New York residence-designed by architect PETER MARINO
a Sotheby's auction of the contents took place in 2004.
The rooms are photographed by ERIC BOMAN.
Here-Some of the most heavenly rooms with furniture from the Golden Age of Russian furniture (1780-1840)
A. Cheneviere notes in RUSSIAN FURNITURE THE GOLDEN AGE- the wildly popular "seat furniture" and cabinetry of mahogany was produced throughout Russia -not just in St Petersburg and Moscow. Not only that, the style referred to as Jacob (no connection with the French Jacob style) was coveted by the bourgeois and Imperial Russia-namely at Pavlosk and Tsarskoe Selo.
a set of ten Russian brass mounted mahogany Dining chairs circa 1790. A pair of identical armchairs is in the Library of the Empress at Pavlovsk Palace.
A rare Russian Neoclassical ormolu mounted and brass inlaid mahogany and part-ebonized desk circa 1805, attributed to Heinrich Gambs.(Sotheby's catalog)
There are countless pieces not touched upon here in the Sotheby's 2004 catalog- anyone interested in decorating, Russian Neoclassic furniture, Peter Marino's work, or Marella Agnelli should track down and own a copy at once.
SOTHEBY'S here
see some recent RUSSIAN JACOB Acquisitions of THERIEN & CO. here.
here&
here
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all photographs from SOTHEBY'S New York October 23, 2004 Catalog
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the Warhol portrait
Marella Agnelli's New York residence-designed by architect PETER MARINO
a Sotheby's auction of the contents took place in 2004.
The rooms are photographed by ERIC BOMAN.
Here-Some of the most heavenly rooms with furniture from the Golden Age of Russian furniture (1780-1840)
A. Cheneviere notes in RUSSIAN FURNITURE THE GOLDEN AGE- the wildly popular "seat furniture" and cabinetry of mahogany was produced throughout Russia -not just in St Petersburg and Moscow. Not only that, the style referred to as Jacob (no connection with the French Jacob style) was coveted by the bourgeois and Imperial Russia-namely at Pavlosk and Tsarskoe Selo.
the AGNELLI'S
at Capote's Black and White Ball
Marella Agnelli wearing Mila Schon
THE FOYER
looking into the DRAWING ROOM
THE DRAWING ROOM
How the Drawing Room manages to be "warm" and opulent can only be contributed to the talents of Marino. Using provincial patterns on Louis XV period "chaises & fauteuils a la reine" along with Aubusson tapestry, Victorian style tufted settees and sofas in carmine velvet or ruby velvet gauffrage in all melds. The tenor of the room evokes Russian winters wrapped in midnight lapis velvet walls, layers of antique carpets, mahogany and lacquered furniture.
a matched pair of Louis XVI Ormolu-ebony & Japanese & European
cabinets on stands- circa 1785, stamped C.C Saunier,JME (from Sotheby's catalog)
THE DINING ROOM
Fine examples of the Russian Jacob revolution are in the Agnelli Dining Room. No to mention sets upon sets of Russian Imperial porcelains dating from the period of Catherine II. The table and serving cupboard are German-of the same period.
a fine set of Russian Neoclassical chairs circa 1790.
a set of ten Russian brass mounted mahogany Dining chairs circa 1790. A pair of identical armchairs is in the Library of the Empress at Pavlovsk Palace.
(enlarge the photographs to read the Sotheby's text)
THE BEDROOMS
A rare Russian Neoclassical ormolu mounted and brass inlaid mahogany and part-ebonized desk circa 1805, attributed to Heinrich Gambs.(Sotheby's catalog)
photograph of Marella Agnelli on the desk
by Richard Avedon, wearing Balenciaga
portrait of Olga de Meyer
Donna Olga Caracciolo Dei Duchi Di Castelluccio
There are countless pieces not touched upon here in the Sotheby's 2004 catalog- anyone interested in decorating, Russian Neoclassic furniture, Peter Marino's work, or Marella Agnelli should track down and own a copy at once.
SOTHEBY'S here
see some recent RUSSIAN JACOB Acquisitions of THERIEN & CO. here.
here&
here
.
all photographs from SOTHEBY'S New York October 23, 2004 Catalog
.
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Lydig Fetish
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to worship at her feet-
now at the Metropolitan on display the bespoke leather trunk of RITA ACOSTA LYDIG made by Italian master Pietro Yantorny, with Yantorny carved shoe trees. Curator of shoes at the Musée Cluny in Paris as well-He created hundreds of pairs of shoes for the incomparable Lydig.
image from the Met here
a Stokes story here
see a video at Bart Boehlert's site here
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~Rita Lydig
to worship at her feet-
now at the Metropolitan on display the bespoke leather trunk of RITA ACOSTA LYDIG made by Italian master Pietro Yantorny, with Yantorny carved shoe trees. Curator of shoes at the Musée Cluny in Paris as well-He created hundreds of pairs of shoes for the incomparable Lydig.
image from the Met here
a Stokes story here
see a video at Bart Boehlert's site here
BOLDINI portrait of Rita Lydig,here
Sheperd and Derom Galleries
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barefoot, and pregnant?
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the next barefoot cover I want to see is something like this- with maybe- a remake of the movie? could you imagine an actress today that could touch the incomparable AVA GARDNER?
NO?
No.
NO?
No.
(but this is about what I might expect from Hollywood-Demi that is)
NO?
that's a NoNo.
NO?
( actually a thought-IF it came to that )
NO?
NO. NO. a thousand times NO.
NO?
honest, I don't even kNOw who this is.
NO?
NO, all I can say is NO- not even as a Count.
NO, no more barefoot anything please.
Unless, it's this, & make that the Original.
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the next barefoot cover I want to see is something like this- with maybe- a remake of the movie? could you imagine an actress today that could touch the incomparable AVA GARDNER?
NO?
No.
NO?
No.
(but this is about what I might expect from Hollywood-Demi that is)
NO?
NO?
( actually a thought-IF it came to that )
NO?
NO. NO. a thousand times NO.
NO?
honest, I don't even kNOw who this is.
NO?
NO, all I can say is NO- not even as a Count.
NO, no more barefoot anything please.
Unless, it's this, & make that the Original.
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