Artistic

Elegante’

details of ‘David’ by Michelangelo Maria Gertrud Metz (German, 1746 – 1793): Still life with roses, tulips, daffodils and lilies with fruit, a worm, a snake and insect MARCHESA PRE-FALL 2017 Trieste Teatro Verdi II by mali-srpan The bride at Georges Hobeika Couture fall 2016 Rebecca Watson Photography The bride at Georges Hobeika  Couture fall  2016 […]

ETSY SWEETSIE: JEWELRY!

Super sweet jewelry finds from Etsy! Oval Opal Engagement Ring ETSY SHOP: MinimalVS Chickadee Earrings. Hand painted bird earrings. kirstinstride ETSY SHOP: kirstinstride     Silver Dainty Ring,  Stacking Chain  ETSY SHOP: MinimalVS   Watermelon Tourmaline Ring ETSY SHOP: MinimalVS Sterling silver whistle necklace – I want this! ETSY SHOP: ArtiKats Baguette Diamond Earrings ETSY SHOP: MinimalVS   Bird in a cage […]

In the Green Room: Home and Art

  “Green is a soothing color, isn’t it? I mean Gryffindor rooms are all well and good but the trouble with red is — it is said to send you a little mad — not that I’m casting aspersions .”    ― Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – Parts One and Two   DESIGNER: Dorothy […]

Ballet Beautiful

Costumes backstage at New York City Ballet’s The Nutcracker.    Photo by Kathryn Wirsing   “Ballet is pure and demands that you serve something larger than yourself, whether it be beauty or art, or a combination of both.  It requires discipline, taking care of yourself, taking care of your own body first.  Then it allows […]

Home Sweet Home: Pretty Pretty!

  A whole lot of lovely home and art today. Colorful, warm, simply delightful, enjoy. Jenni Li’s Brooklyn Town House,  the owner of Peruvian textiles bazaar Intiearth. The living area is awash in light and filled with cozy spots to curl up and relax. onekingslane.com   Martin Lechner Carré  #00841116 oil on canvas on panel 150 x […]

On the Light Side

“Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.”    ― Mike Norton     Shrimps Spring 2017 backstage photographed by Benjamin Whitley for Twin Magazine December light…….by Petri Rämö via:letmyinspiration  “We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and […]

Art and Home: Chic Sophistication

Shine by S.H.O.  Sublime Sofa Marcel Vertès (French, 1895-1961), Hairstyle, 1941.  Pencil and watercolour, 41.5 x 31.5 cm. Elle Decor via:instagram chic bar island in black George Hendrik Breitner (Dutch, 1857-1923), Self-Portrait, 1882.  Oil on canvas, 30 x 40 cm. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. via:mrmenco Stefan Kürten (German, b. 1963), Die Besten Jahre [The Best Years], […]

Ballet Beautiful

  “You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive.” ― Merce Cunningham   Olesya Novikova in […]