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Ballet Beautiful

Serenade    New York City Ballet   Oksana Skoryk: Giselle.   The Mariinsky Ballet   Olesya Novikova and Konstantin Zverev rehearsing Frederick Ashton’s Marguerite and Armand   © Svetlana Avvakum.    Oksana Skoryk: Giselle.   The Mariinsky Ballet   Nika Tskhvitaria  in The Awakening of Flora Olesha Novikova rehearsing Frederick Ashton’s Marguerite and Armand   © […]

Cool Factor

cool stuff for you Tapis noirs et blancs : Tapis Canyon Stripe Patch    Ralph Lauren home     Isabeli Fontana in A Touch of Evil for Vogue Nippon, November 2007   Shot by Sølve Sundsbø   Styled by George Cortina   Cover beetle. An introduction to entomology. v. 2. 1843.        by […]

Bright and Beautiful: Colorful Home and Art

“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way.”   – Georgia O’Keeffe​​​ Lynn Morgan Design Artist: Sandy Welch instrgram: sandywelch.alwayspaint1 @niomslon home in Portugal @archdigest @miguelfloresvianna#johnstefanidis     “Be uniquely you.    Stand out.    Shine.  Be colorful.    The world needs your prismatic soul!”    ― Amy Leigh Mercer […]

Home and Art: Rich and RED

  Late 18th Century Vintage English Georg III Carved Mahogany Armchair   John Singer Sargent (American, 1856-1925), Candelabra with Roses, c.1885. Oil on canvasboard, 21 x 16 in. Zanaboni Salotti Classici S.n.c. from Italy.   Simon Hantaï (French, born Hungary, 1922-2008), Etude, 1969.    Oil on canvas, 86.5 x 61 cm.   instagram: Juergen Birchler […]

Elegant Life

“The moment was all; the moment was enough.”   — Virginia Woolf, The Waves         Model wearing a hat by Rose Valois and jewels Boucheron.    Photo by Georges Saad, 1962.   Gioia Guistino   ZsaZsa Bellagio Lambert Floral Studio “We shall not cease from exploration,     And the end of all […]

AT HOME: Accent Orange

“ORANGE” Add a little or a lot, go bright and bold or warm and cozy.    Orange is a beautiful and contemporary color that can help you achieve your design goals across all styles and rooms.    via:embotelladoras The color is known to promote general wellness and can have both calming and energizing effects, making […]

artistic it is

Magí Puig, 2017.   Four Meters of Perfection   Michelangelo’s David at the School of Belle Arti Museum in Florence, Italy   Diana Vishneva & Konstantin Zverev, Le Parc     “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”   — Jalaluddin Rumi      Vincent van […]

Elegant Life

via:zsazsabellagio “Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.”   — Alice Walker     greylikesweddings 1884 Roses et Rosiers Prints by E. Donned   Source:bowtieblaines  Manuscript of Chopin’s Polonaise in F Minor, Op. 71, No. 3, ca. 1828-29.   Nicole Atieno by Richard Phibbs for Harper’s UK December 2018   […]