Two ivory anatomical figures, female and male, in original case
A collection of photos and info on the most beautiful castles in France, including some of the top French chateaux.
Above: Rythme Coloré (Colored Rhythm), 1946, Oil on canvas, private collection, © L & M SERVICES B.V. The Hague 20100623; Photo: © private collection
A collection of photos and info on the most beautiful castles in France, including some of the top French chateaux.
Megaliths of Carnac: Introduction The Carnac stones are an exceptionally dense collection of megalithic sites around the French village of Carnac, in Brittany, consisting of alignments, dolmens, tumuli and single menhirs. The more than 3,000 prehistoric standing stones were hewn from local rock and erected by the pre-Celtic people of Brittany, and are the largest […]
13th century (mid-1240s or ca.1250) France, Paris New York, The Pierpoint Morgan Library Ms M. 638 - Morgan Bible AKA Maciejowski Bible fol. 29r - singing praises to...
Albert Kahn’s photographic archive is a mesmerizing record of human history.
French Situationist Guy Debord's seminal analysis of consumer capitalism in the late 20th century.
Brisé fan in mother of pearl, pierced and carved; made in France, 1800-1850
Kensington and Chelsea Libraries have published several wonderful images by the late amateur photographer Edward Linley Sambourne which captures the casual side of Edwardian fashion in a manner which is rarely seen.
About “Boomerang” desk designed by Maurice Calka for Leleu. Marked: "CREATION M. CALKA EDITION LELEU DESHAYS" This desk was exhibited in the museum show "Leleu 50 ans de mobilier et de de´coration, 1920-1970" held in 2007 and 2008 at the Muse´e des Anne´es 30, Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris, France and at La Piscine - Muse´e Art et Industrie Andre´ Diligent, in Roubaix, Lille, France. Bibliography: Illustrated in the catalogue of the two aforementioned exhibitions, Leleu 50 ans de mobilier et de de´coration, 1920-1970, Somogy Editions d'Art, Paris, 2007, p. 150 & 151. This desk is also illustrated in: Jules et Andre´ Leleu by Viviane Jutheau, E´ditions Vecteurs, p. 164 & 165. L'Utopie du tout Plastique, 1960 / 1973, Editions Fondation pour l'Architecture, p. 78.
How an early-twentieth-century French banker shaped your favorite Instagram filters.
Welcome to our weekly property digest, where we bring together the best homes for sale and rent across the world. […]
Gazar evening cape, designed by Cristóbal Balenciaga, Paris, February 1963.
La Maison Picassiette was built by only one man, Raymonde Isidore, between 1938 and 1964. More info and pictures here: www.thejoyofshards.co.uk/picassiette/index.shtml#anchor184676
.♡♡♡. a mood board
A series of futuristic pictures by Jean-Marc Côté and other artists issued in France in 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1910. Originally in the form of paper cards enclosed in cigarette/cigar boxes and, later, as postcards, the images depicted the world as it was imagined to be like in the then distant year of 2000. As is so often the case their predictions fell some way off the mark, failing to go far enough in thinking outside the confines of their current technological milieu (hence the ubiquity of propellors, not to mention the distinctly 19th-century dress). There are at least 87
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