Fragments

Hello darlings!! I hope your week has gone by well. I've been a little rushed off my feet and tired this week, so sorry for not posting. But, a break is a good thing here and there. It's finally summer holidays here, so I won't have the school rush, now I will just have to keep my girls entertained each day. So, posts may become sporadic at times. This is just a mix of things from here and there...things that I enjoy and am quite fond of. Little pieces of me here and there. I hope you enjoy them and have a wonderful weekend!!

Love loves
xoxox


{Gloria Swanson. (March 27, 1899 – April 4, 1983) was an American actress, singer and producer. She was one of the most prominent stars during the silent film era as both an actress and a fashion icon.} {I'm a huge silent film fan and she is one of my favourites, these ladies had style, brains, everything. Film stars at their best. I also wouldn't mind at all having this entire outfit}



{Tartan (please don't say plaid, that is something entirely different. The 'plaid' is actually the piece of fabric or blanket over the shoulder on a full kilt attire, the fabric is tartan) high heels I spotted while out at Loch Lomond, gorgeous.  This tartan resembles the Stewart Royal Tartan}



{MY Mr. Darcy - The Gorgeous Gavin who takes my pictures, writes poetry, dresses impeccably, cooks (yes, that's right, cooks - darn good too - LOVE him. Many have wondered who this 'Gorgeous Gavin' is, so here you are. His hair is actually blondish brown and he has blue eyes}


{Sekhmet statue from the Kelvingrove Museum. A Sekhmet  is a dangerous lady. Her name means 'powerful woman' (what's dangerous about that, I say!?!} She is the goddess of disease and it is said that her breath created the desert. She once tried to kill everyone is Egypt. This is the head and upper body of the goddess Sekhmet. 18th Dynasty. Rein of Amenhotep III, 1390-1352 BC}



{My dream car, that my enchanting Miss. Meadows and I are going to cruise around in one day wearing our vintage best in some marvelous and beautiful place - Paris will be on the cards for sure too. It's the 1938 Phantom Corsair (yes, I know about cars. I can change the tires (tyres for UK people) oil and whatever else needs doing. I am a smart cookie. My uncle builds and remodels old fashioned cars, so I learned to have a love for them from him. This is 6-seater cost approximately $24, 000 to build. The doors open with a touch of a button inside. Can fit four in the front and two in the back}



{Can I have this dress!?! It's marvelous and dreamy :))) Happiness}



{I leave you with this......

Have a marvelous weekend!!
xoxo}

A Mix of Beauty




Good Monday beauties! I hope the weekend was blissful for you. My weekend was lovely...a mix of things, which is how I enjoy it. I spent Sunday at Loch Lomond walking amongst the trees and beautiful nature. Although, not at my usual spot, it's tourist season, so it was far too crowded for me to relax and enjoy anything. But, here beautiful things have been swarming around my head like dancing fairies in the night sky lighting my way home. Far off places of yesterdays, long forgotten and wrapped in the intoxicating musky aroma of earth.  Like old houses full of treasures of memories loved and kept. History and richness of stories of old. Do you have those moments!?! Where you want something old, a book, a dress, a picture...something that many hands have glided over, eyes have gazed in wonderment, the deep sigh of breath exhaling in ecstasy at beauty fulfilled in their mind.  I adore those moments the most, ache for them really. I love old things...treasures...they sink into the deepness of my heart and mind and carry me through my days, keeping me warm and bright. Loved treasures found in unexpected places or faces.  Which is just what I found walking through the woods in Loch Lomond, a beautiful church with old graves sinking into the ground...my heart skipped a beat as I skipped happily towards it like a child. I'll share pictures another day, another time...but for now I shall leave you with these bits of beauty & bid you farewell, I hope your Monday is as beautiful as the sun in the sky!!

Love loves
xoxo





































{Artist} Emile Gallé


Happy Friday petals and butterflies...I hope you have a wonderful weekend. I wanted to share today one of my most favourite artists. Many of you will know by now through my Twitter and my Facebook page, that I am besotted with the Art Nouveau period, it's my favourite time of Art history besides the Egyptian & Gothic/Medieval times.  Emile had a stunning talent & I'd be over the moon to have one of his original pieces. His life was fascinating, yet heartbreaking. I hope you enjoy, I tried to make it as short as possible and included pictures too, so don't feel bad if you look more than read.

Have a wonderful weekend Starlets!




A Dainty History Lesson


Emile Gallé {Nancy. France. 8 May, 1846- 23 September 1904} Was a key figure in the Art Nouveau era. A man of his time. He was a dreamer, a botanist, had a strong political agenda, industrialist. An Artist finding his medium in glass. He built a substantial glass and furniture empire from the family business. Creating stunning prototypes and then giving them to his team to be massed produced across France. Art and Industry went hand in hand. He was quite clever with experimenting with various techniques to texture the glass. Using acids while layering and cutting. The pieces he made were of a complexity never seen or achieved in that time. The exhibition pieces went far beyond the decorative nature, they were engraved with quotations. He had a magical, poetic quality which went on to become his signature. He invoked nature and the cycle of life. The pieces drew you in and engulfed your senses, so that you became lost in it. He was a true artist. Gallé's view of nature was a true and honest one, he also appreciated what was decaying, rank and dying. He was trying to find a new way of expressing the realities of modern life and death. 
At the end of the 19th century, Nancy became the power house for Art Nouveau, in 1901 an association of local designers grouped and formed. Gallé of course was the visionary. One of the pieces exhibited at the 1900 world fair, was called 'The dark men'. This piece was cry out for the injustice that threatened to destabilise the government & the country's fragile peace. All for a man named Alfred Dreyfuss, a Jewish Army officer who was sentenced to life in prison on the basis of documents that had been faked. He was humiliated and had his rank badges torn from him and his sword broke in half. The anti semitism that exploded in France after this split the country. Artists stood up for Dreyfuss and eventually paid the price. After the World Fair,  Gallé's business suffered, he was ostracised because he defended an innocent. Customers slowed to a hault and he worried for his family and factory. He also found out he was dieing (Leukaemia). He began pouring sadness and melancholy into his work. The very last piece he made before his death was a bed - 'Lit Aube et Crépuscule' (Dawn and Twilight bed). A beautiful piece that many feel symbolises life & death. The moth lifts up to the sun living and breathing, then falling at night dying and stopping. Sadly he didn't get to see Dreyfuss exonerated in 1906. He died two years earlier. But, in the last years of his life he created some of the most moving and powerful pieces ever.

His wife Henriette Gallé chose to keep the plants and continue his work with the help of employees, designers, sculptors and engravers, under the guidance of Victor Prouvé, her husband's faithful collaborator. She gathered up collected writings and published them in ''Writings for Art'' in 1908, which was used to help raise awareness of the genius that he was. Pieces created after his death have a special marking after his name, so you know it was made after and not before.





{Les Hommes noirs (The Dark Men). Emile Galle (French, 1846‒1904) and Victor Prouve (French, 1858‒1943). France, 1900. Blown and cased glass, cut, acid-etched, engraved, polished, applied silver stain. H: 38.1 cm, Diam (max): 32.1 cm. Collection of The Corning Museum of Glass (2011.3.1}


{'Lit Aube et Crépuscule' (Dawn and Twilight bed), 1904, Musée de l'Ecole de Nancy.}


{Emile Gallé in 1892painted by Victor Prouvé. ©Coll. Hand.}


Major works were from 1989 to 1904:

Glass vases and lamps, with cameo or wheel-carved Gallé signature, etched to depict landscape scenes, flowers, butterflies or birds amongst foliage, in double or triple overlaid and etched glass; internally decorated, overlaid, wheel-carved glass; cameo glass; flashed, engraved, chased and enamelled glass.


Here are just a small few of creations. Many more beautiful ones out there to discover.









{All images found via the Internet. none are mine}

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