This tree house is making me so happy today! I’d like to live here, warm breeze, lots of cookies. via Arthur’s Circus
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From the category archives:
Vintage
Etsy seller efinegifts has an amazing selection of vintage Christmas decorations and what-not and reasonably priced too. This vintage button cards ($12.95) would look amazing framed.
I also love these little houses ($11.95)
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This coin bank over at Three Potato Four caught my eye, for $10 I think it makes a great gift for an architect friend or really just a tongue in cheek savings reminder in this financial crisis. And it would look cute as part of a holiday vignette, too.
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I saw this and just had to buy-it-now. (This is the reason I have been taking a 3-month Ebay break). But, I am turning 30 after all, which makes me an Old Abbey! (Kidding, kidding)… But I have made cordialized brandy (back when I lived with Nancy). So, this just reminds me of good times. Someday I’m going to put it up on my gallery wall.
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I’m writing my thesis in part on the influence of Japanese art on Western silversmiths. In the course of some research today, I came across this lovely, short Japanese book on beach combing written in 1789. It’s hauntingly beautiful.
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I love libraries. I’m a library addict. I guess I love libraries so much because I love books and research, so thank god I basically have one foot in academia. By its nature research is slow so I don’t post much about what I’m working on because in the day-to-day it rarely looks like much. However, I just discovered a amazing scanner in my favorite library and voila! here are some of the beautiful images I’ve been gorging myself on this summer. I’m researching a piece of silver made by Tiffany & Company in the 1870s. The design is Japanese inspired so I’ve been looking at the primary sources that the Tiffany designers might have been influenced by in the 1870s and 1880s.
These are a few of my favorites but you can see some 80 or so more here. Yes, I went a bit nuts with the new scanner (it is so fast!) but it was really all for you. Note to the fabric designers — there are some amazing designs here that I think would translate into modern fabric beautifully.
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Top of my wish list for the apartment right now? This green desk at Paula Rubenstein, 65 Prince Street. This shop might be my favorite place in the world, at least this week. Ms. Rubenstein carries a pitch perfect collection of vintage goods (blankets, perfect coastal landscapes, funky Bakelite place settings, old photographs) in perfect condition.
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Click on the image above to see more detail of what can only be called one awesome dollhouse. Made in the 17th century for Petronella Oortman, a wealthy Amsterdam lady, I’d argue that this was where she stored some of her ideas about interiors she loved (similar to the blogworld, or our clipping files). As much as we’re different we are the same. More here.
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I came across some awesome vintage popcorn bags recently and snapped them up. I’ve posted most of them over at Abigail Vintage!
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