Ah … Paris!
La Parisienne de Photographie is a hugely ambitious collection {25,000 to be exact} of historic photos of Paris. For lovers of Paris (and who isn’t?) this is the closest thing to being there. Posted...
View ArticleEric’s Ephemera
Eric Baker Design Associates is a Manhattan-based design firm established in 1986. Eric teaches the history of graphic design and corporate identity at the School of Visual Arts, and has twice...
View ArticleCarolina Herrera, Spring Collection 2009
I love the absence of color in black as well as the blending of all color in white in so many things. In black, for instance: suit jackets, inks, riding boots, ribbons, lingerie, caviar and mascara....
View ArticleIdeas Worth Spreading
The Errant Aesthete has posted a few of the fabulous talks that came out of TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) this past year. The annual conference brings together the world’s most fascinating...
View ArticleArt Deco, California Style
A wonderful series of sketches and drawings from BiblioOdyssey culled from the S Charles Lee Collection website at UCLA Library. Posted in Design Tagged: artdeco, California, collection, SCharlesLee
View ArticleAgnes B’s Personal Collection
Every art-minded person dreams of amassing an art collection that will grow to outlive their life on earth. French fashion designer and cultural broker Agnes B is one of those people who has fulfilled...
View ArticleArt Interrupted
The enchanting tale of two unremarkable people who did a rather stunningly remarkable thing. Herb Vogel was a postal clerk, his wife Dorothy, a librarian. Together, they lived on one salary, using the...
View ArticleLe Tastemaker
Rumors abound that a certain atelier in Paris has the above portrait of the Vicomtesse de Noailles, front and center on its inspiration board. And pray tell, why not? Her ancestrage alone is grounds...
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