tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39984306268374098102024-02-20T10:49:24.775+10:00Gindora Dux DeluxeDux Deluxe is Latin for 'Masters of the finest'.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998430626837409810.post-35842787709128265782012-07-08T20:19:00.003+10:002012-07-11T09:19:37.045+10:0050 Shades of Grey - designing the dream cast<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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As this blog is about the masters of the finest, having just finished reading the 50 Shades of Grey trilogy I only feel right to design the 'fantasy cast' for the 50 Shades of Grey movie slated for casting and production in late 2012.<br />
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I will freely admit that I never got into Harry Potter, nor Twilight. I was surprised to discover that this trilogy was developed on the Twilight premiss and fan base - and against my better judgement it got me in! <br />
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Christian Grey, the enigmatic and troubled lead is going to be the key to this casting. I've chosen two actors per character, it will be interesting to see if any of them make it to the final cut...let's find out.<br />
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<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998430626837409810.post-76105457492865149222011-11-20T08:12:00.001+10:002011-11-20T09:00:16.196+10:00Karlovy Vary - A wedding cake vista in Bohemia<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Karlovy Vary - or King Charles waters is the beautiful Bohemian town situated on hot springs which is now the holiday destination for the rich and famous - of <u>Russia</u>. Famous for being visited by Mozart, Bach and now MOI from Australia - does that make me a Bohemian? I think not. But here I am sashaying around partaking of the 'waters' to cure 'diabeets' (as it is pronounced here! lol)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spa 11 - my lucky number!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Those pesky Ruskies in my photo shot!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Colonnade - where most of the spa fonts are</td></tr>
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<a href="http://urbanlacejewelry.com/">Urban Lace </a>has launched a fantastic range of jewellery and belts made from all things - recycled from bicycle inner tubes! <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The five-year old label started in the garage of designer Barbi Touron in Portland Oregon. She would cut out the inner tubes of bicycles into interesting shapes. Urban Lace also has a shop on <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/dullleadsinker">ETSY</a>. </span></h2>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Brisbane QLD, Australia-27.4709331 153.0235024-28.3726091 151.7600749 -26.5692571 154.28692990000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998430626837409810.post-48801340653680383392011-05-05T16:38:00.000+10:002011-05-05T16:38:23.389+10:00Kim Chi Korea!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>My last two weeks were spent in Seoul Korea, undertaking an assignment for work. For those who haven't been to Korea you'll find it quite a surprise. Sophisticated, calm and wordly. This time of year is Cherry Blossom season, so I'll let the photo below speak for itself.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">How cute is this? My host Myunghee's nephew...posing as a bug</td></tr>
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The other thing I enjoyed were the windows in stores as my taxi zoomed past them. One store - called Bean Pole - had the most interesting window display. I had to get photos...!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Love the chair in Schumacher's Imperial Trellis</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fabulous skins in all hues of blue</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">She already has this geometric green fabric</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Black,white,orange & turquoise with a twist</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This stairwell is magnificent - alive with pattern & colour</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The ultimate must have chandelier</td></tr>
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Although I have a definite leaning to the clean look of black and white I also appreciate and covet the colourful porcelain and glass mosaics made famous in the Roman bathhouses and Grecian courts. <br />
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The tiny coin tiles which remind me of an Australian 50 cent piece are just so. Very dinky, although I believe much harder to keep clean.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Don't you just LOVE grecian key?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is like checkerboard with a floral motif</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Good old no nonsense checkerboard</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Moroccan mosaic</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Simple floral motif is really effective</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John Paul and Talitha Getty in Morocco</td></tr>
</tbody></table> I was always fascinated by John Paul and Talitha Getty. They lived the absolute hippy lifestyle of the rich in Morocco entertaining the jet set and indulging in everything that the 70s had to offer - sex, drugs and rock & roll. Sadly, Talitha died of a heroin overdose. However I thought she never looked as stunning in this Lichfield photograph taken on the rooftop of their home in Casablanca.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Blue on blue....very soulful</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Modern twist on the Moroccan theme</td></tr>
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These pictures from <a href="http://www.coastalliving.com/">Coastal Living</a> got me to thinking how I'd decorate a place by the sea.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This would be my room with a view - how divine.</td></tr>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The second would be a place in the beautiful hills of Southern France, in a sandstone building with a balcony. I'd write and collect antiques and drink coffee when it takes my fancy. Now for that rich benefactor.</div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">St Basil's Cathedral - Moscow, onion domes influenced by the Ottoman Empire </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</tbody></table>Alain de Botton, the fabulous philospher who writes prolifically about architecture and its bearing on happiness and what we can learn about those who create, embrace, or reject certain manifestations of architecture explains that: Architects seek beauty, but they also speak of ideals, beliefs, and values through their designs. He also states that bad architecture is a failure of psychology. And because successful architecture is an expression of our ideals and a satisfier of our psychological needs, our homes serve as a reminder of who we are and as propaganda (“the promotion of any doctrine or set of beliefs”) to those who visit it. <br />
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I do like his choice of words “We can be moved by a column that meets a roof with grace, by worn stone steps that hint at wisdom and by a Georgian doorway that demonstrates playfulness and courtesy in its fanlight windows.” I can only agree - that's what beautiful architecture does for me.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Le Tour Eiffel - this picture captures a time and place in Paris beautifully.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Designed by iconic architect IM Pei - a study in Feng Shui</td></tr>
</tbody></table>When Hong Kong was signed over to the Chinese in 1997, nothing sent a message like the Bank of China building did.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Gotham or 'Batman' building - Brisbane Australia</td></tr>
</tbody></table>I had to put a Brisbane building in here! Holy hell Batman what is so good about this building! The building underneath was ugly and an eyesore! Yes Robin the Law Courts building got a huge facelift and now the Gotham building is an iconic Brisbane landmark.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Castle Howard, Yorkshire - represented the melancholy of Brideshead Revisited</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Isn't this a beautiful castle? Set amid beautiful grounds, owned by the Howard family, this is one place I'd love to live.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Charles Bridge - Prague....sublime</td></tr>
</tbody></table>The site of the INX film clip of "Never Tear Us Apart" - this bridge is hundreds of years old. Lined with statues of the saints and rulers of Prague it has a mystical and timeless appeal. Helped by the fact it is located in the world's most beautiful city.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Spain - Frank Gehry's best</td></tr>
</tbody></table>The winner of the building of the century. It is awe-inspiring and the use of movement and light reflecting materials is inspirational.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">King Ludwig's Neuschwanstein Castle - a prototype of Disneyland</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Located in Bavaria, this dreamlike castle was inhabited by the mad King Ludwig. But Fantasyland in Disneyland was modelled after this.<br />
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</tbody></table>This station would have to be the most magnificent and stately station in the world. I found it breathtaking.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Old Museum, Brisbane - same neogothic architecture</td></tr>
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</tbody></table>This building is one of my favourites in Brisbane. It evokes so many feelings in me that I stare at it as I drive by travelling down Gregory Terrace.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Duomi Cathedral - Milan...The Wedding Cake church</td></tr>
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This cathedral is absolutely magnificent. Built over centuries with bits and pieces added to it, it is like an over-decorated cake. More is defintely more!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jardine House - complete with portholes, Hong Kong</td></tr>
</tbody></table>I loved Jardine House, the first time I saw it. What I loved was that the architecture reflected a period in the history of 'the fragrant island' in particular the British shipping trade in and out of Hong Kong - note the window design of portholes.<br />
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</tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998430626837409810.post-9430055205247976852011-01-28T14:11:00.000+10:002011-01-28T14:11:28.037+10:00Michelle Nussbaumer - Dallas Design Maverick<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBm5q3SqhU-a4REGhZQL49664qVt_o7ws_rZZp_eK0gRmM4DI41d8flOloOI5nrVlV5Cyk0-ZWWyMxe3lSWg9TvR0k1K_fODgCbuSQBdgfNRvQblfGgeuF2o1T4hq5-m3kiu8NoGsm5WUv/s1600/LuxeGreystone+pg06.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="340" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBm5q3SqhU-a4REGhZQL49664qVt_o7ws_rZZp_eK0gRmM4DI41d8flOloOI5nrVlV5Cyk0-ZWWyMxe3lSWg9TvR0k1K_fODgCbuSQBdgfNRvQblfGgeuF2o1T4hq5-m3kiu8NoGsm5WUv/s400/LuxeGreystone+pg06.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifQEWneNVIeP0Ky4fYxkEzkdEPxB2hd1kzxxScizCGlVUxt9KH2Zi_k25yY71pBhlovT1eAf_5OAw58C_W4vJl3pMa1zzrwK-66M4ri2j44ExkFPW9ysOyEq8NR8jgFB8xcbTj8Pq1irDZ/s1600/michelle+nuss+Ceylon+et+cie.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifQEWneNVIeP0Ky4fYxkEzkdEPxB2hd1kzxxScizCGlVUxt9KH2Zi_k25yY71pBhlovT1eAf_5OAw58C_W4vJl3pMa1zzrwK-66M4ri2j44ExkFPW9ysOyEq8NR8jgFB8xcbTj8Pq1irDZ/s400/michelle+nuss+Ceylon+et+cie.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5silkMX_gFt-pUBTZJSYMBrXhXyE5hFf7Zibs3aT59x6AdpRTwd-5m4VaepqRE2F_GF7mNMzujVxOk8N4yymbC6kGEcrFDBBrX6p_w9LqxwKhV37QkID0zA9m2d_R-IxPlBpR51yjNHx1/s1600/Michelle%2527s+Headshot.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5silkMX_gFt-pUBTZJSYMBrXhXyE5hFf7Zibs3aT59x6AdpRTwd-5m4VaepqRE2F_GF7mNMzujVxOk8N4yymbC6kGEcrFDBBrX6p_w9LqxwKhV37QkID0zA9m2d_R-IxPlBpR51yjNHx1/s320/Michelle%2527s+Headshot.jpg" width="201" /></a></div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cole of California - the ultimate in swimsuit glamour</td></tr>
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When my mother was a young blonde carefree teenager she loved to hang out at the beach with her sister and friends all day. Apart of the obvious sun tan and exposure to UVs, the swimsuit she and all of her friends longed for a Cole of California swimsuit. It was the icon swimsuit, made famous by the beach movies from Hollywood and the rising craze of surfboard riding. I've managed to purchase one or two but they are highly collectable and there's a genuine craze for vintage CoC! All those svelte figures and built in bustieres - those were the days!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cole of California - Batik print 1960s</td></tr>
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</tbody></table>The famous actress Esther Williams (of Million Dollar Mermaid fame) was a famous model for Cole of California. Other labels like Catalina, Rose Marie of Hollywood and A of Florida also became famous, however Cole of California was the benchmark of swimsuit glamour.<br />
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</tbody></table>Cole of California began collaborating with Hollywood costume designer Margit Fellegi in 1936; signed Esther Williams to represent the company in 1950 and then began producing swimwear for the iconic Christian Dior, 1955.<br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998430626837409810.post-85468575549786203462010-12-14T16:26:00.001+10:002010-12-14T16:29:29.563+10:00Start spreading the news....back from New YorkAnd so....I've been absent from my blog since I've been in New York for work. This freezing fabulous visit had me travelling from Manhattan to upstate New York to Connecticut.<br />
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</div><div style="color: #fff2cc;">No visit to New York is complete without a visit to ABC Carpet & Home Emporium in the Flatiron district. This is my favourite place in the world. It's been likened to walking into a fantasy tour of a very rich and well-travelled ancestor's attic. This two-building emporium is legendary and deserves to be: It's the ultimate home-fashions-and-furnishings department store. On the west side of the street is the stunning 10-floor home emporium. The goods run the gamut from Moroccan mosaic-tile end tables to hand-painted Tuscan pottery to Tiffany-style lamps to distressed bed frames sporting meltingly soft Italian linens to much, much more, all finely displayed. An entire floor of on-the-bolt upholstery fabrics is to die for.</div><div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ABC is like a fantastical Turkish bazaar, abound with goods from all over the world</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Luxurious lighting and chandeliers are everywhere at ABC</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ABC Carpet & Home - the fabulous entrance</td></tr>
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This trip, I got to appreciate the superb design influence the Art Deco period had on Manhattan. As I wandered the streets around midtown I knew that this must have been the epicentre of design in the 1930s.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ambassador Hotel - luxe!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My favourite all time building in New York - the Woolworth Building</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Woolworth building foyer - it is a religious experience. It feels like a church chapel</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The fabulous exterior of the Woolworth building in downtown</td></tr>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2New York, NY, USA40.7143528 -74.005973140.4541228 -74.47289210000001 40.9745828 -73.5390541tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998430626837409810.post-70746619300724537862010-11-20T22:25:00.000+10:002010-11-20T22:25:32.960+10:00Close a door another window opens...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>To quote Maria from the 'Sound of Music' - when one door closes...another window opens. I am drawn to doors and windows. Perhaps it's something subliminal like beginnings and endings.<br />
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Perhaps, but I think it is something about framing a space that I like, a door or window sets a point of perspective. Each of these pictures look to me like true pieces of art. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lovely charcoal door, black urns with florals</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mackenzie Childs Wrought Iron Gate</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chinese lantern + fretwork window</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mirrored ironwork</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Moroccan curtain + white button chaise + mirror</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998430626837409810.post-46787013889215582332010-11-16T21:24:00.001+10:002010-11-16T21:27:33.396+10:00A picture paints a million feelings...I love beautiful art, because it is a way to express the human condition in colour and shapes. However I think what is more impactful to me is truly beautiful photography. Of course we all know the celeb photographers like Annie Leibowitz, Helmut Newton and Richard Avedon, but I follow photographers who really are artists in their own right.<br />
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This is how I feel about <a href="http://eastmanimages.com/#Home_1">Michael Eastman</a>. He is a true photographic artist. Not only does he feature my favourite colour quite a bit (green) he looks at lines of architecture and landscape and finds something moving in every shot. His works are highly collectible and he is represented by galleries in New York, USA.<br />
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I feel with his work I'm intruding in on a very private scene - looking through a keyhole or a door into another room. Eastman seems to relish and delight in those things that aren't accessible, that are vanishing or in decay. Enjoy these truly inspiring works of art courtesy of <a href="http://eastmanimages.com/#Home_1" style="color: #ffe599;"><i>Michael Eastman Images</i></a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rome - River God (doesn't this feel like you're spying on someone?)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Landscapes - Hillside, Montana</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vanishing America - New Orleans school</td></tr>
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He photographs European architecture to Midwestern storefronts. His work is in many collections, including those of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the International Center of Photography in New York City, The Art Institute of Chicago, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Eastman has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant and has been published in Time, The New York Times, Life, American Photographer, and Communication Arts. He lives in St. Louis, Missouri in the US.<br />
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</tbody></table>I'm a chick with a truly 1970s childhood, I was totally immersed in bold patterns and colours with my parents' decoration of their business and home. Lime green was big, red was another feature colour. It was nothing to put mandarin orange with lime green and chocolate with turquoise and hot pink with canary yellow. <br />
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What I like about bold fabrics for armchairs - is that the chair assumes a 'personality' of its own. I can't wait to get my feature chairs covered now!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Michelle Nussbauer - beautiful green pagoda chair</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Eponymous Squint Design - a cavalcade of colours</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Orange Imperial Trellis cushions, turquoise mirror & beige couch. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Light chartreuse green walls with candy red stripes and jacquard prints</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998430626837409810.post-782548213971415882010-11-14T19:55:00.000+10:002010-11-14T19:55:57.650+10:00Washing your cares awayThe spray of water, the fresh soap clean smell and the cold crisp feeling of tiles underfoot. I really need to upgrade my bathroom - right away!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Old factory windows as a shower screen. <span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>Source: Remodelista</i></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The bath angle of the same bathroom</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Amanda Nisbet bathroom with Manuel Canovas wallpaper</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another angle - lovely.</td></tr>
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</a></div> I haven't been posting regularly for one simple reason - I've been in Shanghai, China for work. In the past 15 years I've seen Shanghai grow into a space age modern city from a decaying city of the 30s, surrounded by farmland and run down buildings. This city has a population of 22 million people, he largest city in the world and the growth is phenomenal. What I love about their architecture - it draws deeply on Chinese design aesthetic. As one of the great trading posts of the East it was a hot bed of ideas in design and architecture, both past and present.<br />
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For instance the Jin Mao Tower (above) is the headquarters for the company I work for as well as housing the Grand Hyatt Hotel, where I stay. Shaped like a pagoda, this building is majestic yet gives a gentle nod in the direction of Chinese roof shingles.<br />
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I adore the old villas on the Puxi side of the river in the French Concession. Such a beautiful melding of East and Western architecture and design. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Decor in a modern Shanghai apartment - note the Chinese fretwork</td></tr>
</tbody></table>What I love most of all about Shanghai is driving along the tree lined streets of the old concessions and seeing all of the fantastic fretwork in gates & grills. The designer Spencer Dodington has photographed and sketched many of these grille designs and has now designed a range of accessories for the uber chic Chinese retailer <a href="http://www.shanghaitang.com/shop">Shanghai Tang</a>. I wanted to highlight a few favourite patterns of mine.<br />
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<u></u>This design is a somewhat large grille built into the rear door of a ground floor flat in a Shanghai 1930s apartment block which is still standing. Around 80 Art Deco buildings like these were built during the late 1920s and 1930s, as real estate prices rose in the heart of the city. They represented the height of luxury, complete with space for servants and doormen, and fitted out with the latest Art Deco furniture and appliances. The symmetry of this design, as well as its construction including curves and straight lines, are typical of traditional Chinese window screen design. However its scale and tight curved elements are pure Art Deco. Its height and simplicity allow light to flood through the door into the interior of the flat.<br />
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<u></u>This grille was found on the front entrance of a lane house, the most common type of housing in pre-World War 2 Shanghai. Located in Shanghai’s former International Settlement just off the present-day Beijing Xi Lu, this residence would have been built for a professional-class Chinese family. The lane was constructed in 1941, and as such is one of the last examples of Concession-Era Shanghai residential architecture. In the spring of 2003 this entire lane, containing this residence and its grille, was unfortunately raised to make way for a group of up-scale tower blocks. More than two years later this construction project has yet to begin.<br />
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<u></u> The rows of lane houses that include grilles like this are located in the quietest part of Shanghai’s former French Concession. As such, they and other houses in the neighborhood have become highly desirable residences. The dwellings are typical for the 1930s: three-storey stucco terraces that owe their architecture heritage equally to European and Chinese styles. They would have originally housed Shanghai’s Chinese middle-class families. Containing both linear and curved elements of traditional Chinese window screen design, but showing a different scale because of being executed in riveted iron and not wood, this grille is typically Shanghainese of the 1930s. The symmetry of the design delights the eye, which is drawn to the centre rectangle panel that may have originally been a space for a name or house number. These houses and those of the surrounding streets are home to many of today’s Chinese power elite. Thus high-rise developments and road enlargements that have punctured much of Shanghai’s urban landscape will not likely come to this area. It will remain a green oasis of plane trees snuggled between busy shopping and commercial centers.<br />
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Some fabulous and really favourite examples.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Typical villa in the French concession</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Shanghai, China31.230393 121.47370430.6432635 120.539866 31.8175225 122.40754199999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998430626837409810.post-46669898762424944292010-11-05T12:04:00.001+10:002011-05-09T13:17:39.561+10:00Pagodas, Pink and Perfect Bed Heads<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Following the theme of Hollywood Regency and chinoiserie, I have to share my latest 'must have'. PAGODAS. These temple icons look as good as a blue and white ginger jars, faux bamboo. They are very regal and quaint. A <b>pagoda</b> is the general term for a tiered tower with multiple eaves common in China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam and Nepal. Most pagodas were built to have a religious function, most commonly <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism"></a>Buddhist and were often located in or near temples - but they're not temples. Fascinating.<br />
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The fact that this style influenced architecture and design from roof shingles through to objet d'art.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pagoda in white - outstanding against this wallpaper</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oh dear - lovely faux bamboo tole chandelier</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Michelle Nussbaumer - white pagoda bedhead</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I love the pink fabric covered bedhead against the turquoise wall</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lily Pulitzer design - Light, bright, Chinese Regency</td></tr>
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</tbody></table> Did I say pink? Okay, here's two ring-ins I just couldn't resist. Lovely light and chair in popping primary colours of red and green.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Julie Neill Pagoda Lantern - New Orleans</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Michelle Nussbaumer - Green Emperor Chair</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998430626837409810.post-20838131509950953402010-10-31T18:53:00.005+10:002010-10-31T21:19:58.751+10:00Hollywood Regency - LA cool meets Palm Beach 1950s meets Joan Crawford<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLgYdBC98rBmxY5C9cvCj95qIOPRZXWQ6_V9C7l8j7DVFiNZLCEVfRGETjIvHYhbGVoFl6E-IpcpITeJCXsTFbZdAbD3KOU1v9orYPQpFD9mEchlDhDaJDk0Op1wAnoTcWZ59FzxSY_3cb/s1600/wearstler.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Hollywood Regency has definitely made a dramatic return to interior design because of the likes of <a href="http://www.kwid.com/">Kelly Wearstler</a> , Jonathan Adler (who's <a href="http://www.jonathanadler.com/manifesto.php">manifesto</a> is the funniest thing I've read in a LONG time) who've established it as the decor du jour.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div>Designers from Hollywood's Golden Age, like <a href="http://williamhaines.com/">William Haines</a> and Dorothy Draper, encouraged Hollywood movie stars to decorate their home with overtones of glitz and glamour, a new design style emerged. The 1930s Hollywood Regency style was a favorite of celebrities ranging from actress Joan Crawford to the Rat Pack. I can remember seeing Faye Dunaway in "Mommie Dearest" and Joan Crawford's love of white and mirrors, she was definitely obsessive compulsive!<br />
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Because of the popularity of the style things like chinoiserie chairs, brass ornaments, and pieces like William (Billy) Haines pieces, this seems like a totally accessible (if not expensive) decorating style to adopt. What annoys me is that everybody calls anything mid-century EAMES ERA. Puh-lease. Charles & Ray Eames were designers mainly of furniture, and logos (IBM) and various designs, but I don't think they'd slip into the Hollywood Regency category. They were way more 'down home', and slightly more Frank Lloyd Wright.<br />
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Here's my very amateur take on it: think LUX, LUCITE and lashings of LACQUER. Colour, colour everywhere with silks and dramatic fabric designs, plush thick carpets and rugs. Or we can go further with some other themes:<br />
<ul><li>Lacquered Furniture</li>
<li> Lucite Tables and Chairs</li>
<li> Mirrored Furniture and Mirrors </li>
<li> Fabulous and Bold Wallpaper</li>
<li> Chinoseirie</li>
<li> Dressing Table</li>
<li> Lilly Pulitzer Palm Beach style</li>
</ul>Nothing says glamor more than a chandelier. Glamor table lamps have crystal stems and fancy shades in white or black. Or add lamp shades in the color of the accent you have chosen to carry the theme throughout the room.<br />
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Read more: <a href="http://www.ehow.com/how_5075038_decorate-hollywood-regency-style.html">How to Decorate Hollywood Regency Style</a><br />
Some shops that sell the Hollywood Regency style online:<br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.jaysonhomeandgarden.com/home.php?cat=72">Jayson Home & Garden </a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.insideavenue.com/hollywood.html">Inside Avenue</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.brocadehome.com/">Brocade Home</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.655home.com/">655 Home</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.councill.com/">Councill Furniture</a></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chloe Sevigny's apartment decorated in Kelly Wearstler's "Imperial Trellis"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dorothy Draper Chandelier and wallpaper</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beautiful use of green, black and white. Kelly Wearster, Viceroy Hotel, Santa Monica</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">White with green highlights - Kelly Wearster, Viceroy Hotel, Santa Monica</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Moroccan glass panels look great stacked with display. Kelly Wearster, Viceroy Hotel, Santa Monica</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">White & lucite - note the plates again (a personal fave)!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More plates complementing chinese regency style</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kelly Wearstler at Bergdorf Goodman</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Billy Haines 'Seniah' Chair - love that fabric!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gramercy Park Hotel - Ian Schrager (lux ++)</td></tr>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJOrQAzf8jsbleWGPYP4reIUrBlZnJ5nTlw9lpTG3A0ukvdvKTtR5ttvQYBwIGfPtqxzfDbAtqyKgQgtSqc38Hbom7ZjjVnnQ0-f7g2zxX2G08WC3bYOoBWWZp414t2w8ZJvP1gLSHslk1/s1600/Straddie-Sept.2008-10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div>Well unfortunately I have a taste for gathering small objets - probably very similar to folks in the Victorian era. <b style="color: #fff2cc;">Tchotchke</b><span style="color: #fff2cc;">s</span> <i>(pronounced "CHACH-kee")</i> are small toys, <b><span style="color: #fff2cc;">gewgaws</span> </b><i>(Old English - a decorative trinket or bauble)</i>, <b style="color: #fff2cc;">knickknacks</b><span style="color: #fff2cc;">, </span><b style="color: #fff2cc;">baubles</b><span style="color: #fff2cc;">, </span><b><span style="color: #fff2cc;">lagniappes</span> </b><i>(Creole word, pronounced 'Lanny-yap" which means something given or obtained gratuitously or by way of good measure)</i>, trinkets or kitsch. <br />
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The word my family uses is bric-a-brac or referring to my collecting sensibilities - CLUTTER. I like the word <b style="color: #fff2cc;">bric-a-brac</b><span style="color: #fff2cc;"> </span>which is a french word referring to collections or curios. Feathers, wax flowers under glass domes, eggshells and miniatures which adorned mantlepieces or displayed in curio cabinets. Often they had glass doors to display the items protecting them from dust.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The mantle display of very talented Simon Robinson of Alba Vintage, Lismore</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My own display of bibbedy bobbedy trinkets in my office</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Love the butterflies and frames in this setting</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Letters, frames and tiny mirrors - lovely</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beautiful baubles hanging from a chandelier</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This green hued cluster of pictures features lovely little collections</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Birds, dolls, flowers & jugs set against a black wall and Victorian fireplace mantle</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Printers tray complete with tschotchkes and trinkets gathered through a life</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lovely jubbly sparkly bottles in beautiful greens</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLoqTTSTRnSF7mKM5qyMI9NS4rSw6l7-DaEyn3Iat3ITBIFC9E8QhfbOaWhUK6FPGGtoRMBVfIxLxNk5E9UssiS_R7pOn7dZvfN_XTnmUh880GRNffyDhegFPqOZaL1-lzjzLK6yF25SeM/s400/tumblr_l26l9vUeS81qzvsqto1_500.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="398" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mint green exterior - I'd sell pencils just to get this shop</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Aesop store - Australia, love the herringbone parquetry</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My church. Worked here in the late 80s. Built from beams of an old ship in mock Tudor style</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hanging lamps and shabby cobalt colour</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo I took in Soho. Old Italian butcher's...lovely</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Love the palm fronds in the glass jug</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Paris Collectibles in beautiful old New Orleans - a den of treasures</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Love the old mantle in Paris Collectibles</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rachel Ashwell's Shabby Chic Store</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Scout Design Group - a treasure trove of lovely old vintage pieces</td></tr>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998430626837409810.post-17289488806064087152010-10-23T00:50:00.001+10:002010-10-23T00:57:37.203+10:00Viva Cuba - crumbling beauty<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Havana turquoise and baroque style - <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Source Tommy Images</span></i></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQelfkNrZG5TPsqVesgBErmj9bW2XWiqh7LNz8SeHsOM8vQ7FGvru5FX-KYXRiXivU_eY8I4aP4klRShoG9iLvyQmRVpz3BNmDCnsetFqNbtzvQ-H14h4iHf02761PehHyNTKWdlH-3LTX/s1600/cuba+havana+source+tommy+images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div>The beauty of the colourful urban decay of Havana Cuba is a style of its own. Cuba has become an inspiration for me since someone showed me some window panels in Havana Green, almost a dark bottle green. I have always been curious about Cuba since I saw the movie Godfather II many years ago. The big 1950s American cars, the architectural influence of the Spanish missionaries, the languid approach to living a la Caribbean and splashes of colour which put new life back into old crumbling buildings.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A chorus line of deco, neo-classical, colonial & spanish mission buildings.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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