When we un-packed it, the Paris curator was embarrassed to discover lipstick marks on its cheek: someone in the Louvre had played at being Pygmalion—or Hadrian—and kissed it. And who could blame them? Up on a pedestal, center stage, the effect of its beauty was jaw-dropping.
“Sometimes in late summer I won’t touch anything, not the flowers, not the blackberries brimming in the thickets; I won’t drink from the pond; I won’t name the birds or the trees; I won’t whisper my own name. One morning the fox came down the hill, glittering and confident, and didn’t see me—and I thought: so this is the world. I’m not in it. It is beautiful.”
— Mary Oliver, October (excerpt)
I loved Dita Von Teese’s old house, but now she’s bought a larger, Tudor style home and decorated it very differently. (She still has her vintage taxidermy collection, though.)
This is the entrance hall. Originally, she collected taxidermied birds.
This was her old living room- Art Deco furniture, and the designer picked out the beautiful flocked teal wallpaper.
This is the new living room. Check out that tiger- the crown is a nice touch. Dita says all the taxidermy is at least 75 yrs. old.
She went bright red oriental in the dining room.
This was her old kitchen- retro & pink.
The new kitchen- she wanted it to look like a woman’s kitchen. Well, she’s got a teal Aga stove.
Rosy red velvet sitting room.
The old dressing table had a sultry glamour.
The new.
The old bedroom.
The new.
A collection of vintage hats adorned her old dressing room.
The new one is a converted closet.
This is the shoe room.
It has a lovely bath that matches the style of the house, but it’s not her usual Hollywood style. I don’t know, I just like the old house better.
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/
Marco Bozzato by Sofia Goncharenko – Haze Magazine (Winter 2020)
Ghost Stories and Other Horrid Tales- Edited and Illustrated by Charles W Stuart. Folio Society 1997
Victorian keepsake album filled with locks of hair from family members.
via Roses & Rue Antiques