Thursday, March 24, 2011
Vintage Music: Adriano Celentano
Prisencolinensinainciusol = 70s FUN!
Gotta love Adriano Celentano, one of Italy's top entertainers. The language in this hopping song may sound like English, but was intentionally written to be gibberish. Oll Raigth!!! : )
Friday, November 12, 2010
Sunday, October 3, 2010
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.
Monday, September 27, 2010
Monday, September 13, 2010
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...
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Sunday, September 5, 2010
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?
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Saturday, June 5, 2010
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. : )
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Thursday, May 20, 2010
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".
Saturday, May 15, 2010
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