Inspiration: The Maysles on The Selby

...and there's another fantastic post on The Selby featuring the Maysles in their fabulous surroundings. Lots of color mixed with tons of vintage treasures... (Al Maysles is probably best known for filming the cult classic Grey Gardens.) I'm off to start contructing a reading nook like this.

Vintage Photos: Erwin Blumenfeld

  

Expressionist photography by German-American Erwin Blumenfeld (1897–1969). 

Nothing is new.

The Masters: Piranesi

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italy, 1720 –1778) gained fame for his fantastical etchings of atmospheric "prisons" (Carceri d'Invenzione). Looks like he was an early proponent of the steampunk genre...

 

Inspiration

I want to live like this when I get older. Vitality and creativity pure. (Found via The Selby.)

The Masters: Frits Henningsen

Be still, my beating heart. Another god of design has appeared in my starry skies.

Frits Henningsen (Denmark, 189?-1965). Can you believe the designs below are from the 1920s and 30s?

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday, Monsieur Costeau.

Vintage Finds: The Girls

Lovely mugs made in Ireland by Arklow. Each features a well-known cutie from a nursery rhyme. Available in the shop. : )

 

Vintage Music: France Gall

Vintage Photos: Dresden. Germany

 

Erich Kaestner's autobiography When I Was a Little Boy begins with a lament for Dresden: "I was born in the most beautiful city in the world. Even if your father, child, was the richest man in the world, he could not take you to see it, because it does not exist any more. (...) In a thousand years was her beauty built, in one night was it utterly destroyed".

j. chanders

Jette Viby

Not too long ago, I came across the most adorable little bib while thrifting. It features a little toy soldier that can be stored away in his own little guard house...

Turns out it was designed by Jette Viby, a prolific designer from Denmark (1930-1999) who was very active in the 1970s and 1980s and gained recognition for fabric-based educational toys.

Old Love

Old Love Haunts me in the Morning - Marissa Nadler