via Design Crush and Postcards to my Peeps

First Editions

via Krisatomic

via Krisatomic

Emma Forrest

A former music journalist, in an interview she compared writing about madness in her new memoirs to writing about music. A quote from the book:

"....It's almost always pills with women. It's the gentle seeping out women seek, like on a classic soul record, when the volume on Otis Redding gets turned down until he's gone. What happens after the fade out? What are the musicians doing now in that room? Take me there, take me there...."

Tim Burton

Glencoe

 

wrathful deities

via The Oriental Caravan

via Mayul School Project

via The Arrogant Athiest

 

running into your ex...

The Diary of Patty Rogers, 1785

via American Antiquarian Society

I with trembling hand [?] to meet him – he with an eye of pity, gave me an expansive look – A look of soft intelligence which indicated a wish to know how I had been this month – this cruel month, that has passed, since I saw him – my eyes eagerly met his and betrayed the tenderness I felt at seeing him. – I seated myself but turned pale and faint…I could not bear to see him without emotions, whose lovely person once (not to say now) was the whole object of my affection – but be silent he is anothers…He is my friend, and I’ll be content.

Research and photo provided by Manuscript Curator, Tracey Kry, Past is Present blog, The American Antiquarian Society

MFA Boston - Chihuly

The more shows I see at the MFA, the more I realize that they always bring their A-game when it comes to lighting. Even in the new American wing, it's obvious that they know what's up. The Chihuly show, was brought to another level thanks in a big way to the clever use of lighting. With the cold dark galleries punctuated with explosions of light, I felt like I was on the ocean floor with phosphorescent sea anemones.

Has Philip Glass gone back to being cool again yet?

via Design Crush

via The Sartorialist

via The Met

Ring. 17th century. India.

DuFour Wallpaper

via Felt and Wire

via The Editor at Large

 via The Captain Cook Society

Interest in 18th and early 19th century global expansion sparked nostalgia for european explorations of the previous centuries, and influenced design and consumer culture. It isn't surprising that these clumsy and, at times, violent narratives are found in the polite parlors of affluent commercial traders of New England--mostly near Boston, on the South Shore, and along off-shoot trading tributaries such as the Connecticut River Valley. Between 1804 and 1827, Dufour produced 31 designs, 6 of which depicted exploratory voyages or conquests, 4 depicted voyages in the Pacific basin, reflecting an enthusiasm for the expansion of certain markets--China had opened its borders only a few decades prior, New Englanders were being lured by equatorial sealing prospects, and traders were harvesting sea cucumbers and sandalwood for the Canton market from "obliging" citizens of the South Pacific. The exotic scenes obviously reference more complex ideas than simply trade, namely, imperialism, which bestows a larger sense of "prestige" to these genteel dwellings.

Contact John Burrows in Rockland, MA for repro ideas.

Florence Arthaud

via Tomboy Style