Peter the Great's 19th century pharmacy turned Baccarat wonderland, image frm Vogue Living Australia July/Aug 08
One summer when we were living in Brentwood Park we fell into a pattern of stopping work at four in the afternoon and going out to the pool. He would stand in the water reading (he reread Sophie's Choice several times that summer, trying to see how it worked) while I worked in the garden. It was a small, even miniature, garden with gravel paths and a rose arbor and beds edged with thyme and santolina and feverfew. I had convinced John a few years before that we should tear out a lawn to plant this garden. To my surprise, since he had no previous interest in gardens, he regarded the finished product as an almost mystical gift. Just before five on those summer afternoons we would swim and then go into the library wrapped in towels to watch Tenko, a BBC series, then in syndication, about a number of satisfyingly predictable English women...After each afternoon's Tenko segment we would go upstairs and work another hour or two, John in his office at the top of the stairs, me in the glassed-in porch across the hall that had become my office. At seven or seven-thirty we would go out to dinner, many nights at Morton's. Morton's felt right that summer. There was always shrimp quesadilla, chicken with black beans. There was always someone we knew. The room was cool and polished and dark inside but you could see the twilight outside. -The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
by Maison Michel Paris, via Scout Holiday and Design*Sponge
110 Livingston Street, 1933
Greta Garbo, Wild Orchids
eating pineapple at their wedding, 1953
Crystal lamp shade from a stoop sale, lamp base gift from dear McSokols, stool $5 from Brooklyn Flea, peacock rescued from sidewalk demise last week, black patent leather boots from Zara, nude patent leather and black lace Fendi boots $25 from thrift store.
Marie Claire Maison via The English Muse
Too pleased to have received an order from the Lux Lotus herself, and too too pleased to have been included in her morning post.
18k frog ring, 1960s
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