Showing posts with label dress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dress. Show all posts
Friday, November 18, 2011
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Andreas Murkudis ~ My favorite Store in Berlin 2011
Andreas Murkudis
Potsdamer Straße 77-87, Haus E,
10785 Berlin
+49 30 3088 1945
www.andreasmurkudis.com
U2, S-bahn Potsdamer Platz.
Open 12noon-8pm Mon-Sat.
Monday, July 25, 2011
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Vintage Map – Plan de Paris by Turgot, 1739
This post is not about the Christian Dior dress but about the vintage map from 1739 by Turgot you see in the background. I have seen them a few times and I can spend hours looking at it and marvel at the detail and sheer size of the print.
When I have my own house, this is the first thing I will buy!
Louis Bretez and Michel-Etienne Turgot's monumental 1739 map of Paris during the reign of Louis XV. Michel-Etienne Turgot, Louis XV's Prévot des Marchands, commissioned this plan in 1734 from Loius Bretez, a sculptor, painter and perspective specialist, who used the conventional bird's-eye representation. This was the last major example of this type of plan and is an important record of the architecture and gardens of Paris at that time. Turgot's plan of Paris is possibly the most ambitious urban mapping ever undertaken. Shows the whole of 18th century Paris and offers a wonderful perspective on the city prior to Baron Georges Eugène Haussmann’s 19th-century redesign.
Turgot, who held the mayor-like office of Prévôt des Marchands de Paris, commissioned Louis Bretez and Claude Lucas to produce this map in 1734. Oriented to the east on an axonometrical projection, this map is best understood as an aerial view where in every building, window, tree, shadow and park is shown. It took the team nearly five years of exhaustive sketching and surveying to assemble this masterpiece. In order to produce the thousands of sketches and surveys required to complete this map, Bretez was issued a permit to enter every building in Paris. The completed plan which consists of twenty individual sheets, can be assembled into a massive and striking display roughly 8 feet by 10 feet.
(via map-fair.com)
When I have my own house, this is the first thing I will buy!
Louis Bretez and Michel-Etienne Turgot's monumental 1739 map of Paris during the reign of Louis XV. Michel-Etienne Turgot, Louis XV's Prévot des Marchands, commissioned this plan in 1734 from Loius Bretez, a sculptor, painter and perspective specialist, who used the conventional bird's-eye representation. This was the last major example of this type of plan and is an important record of the architecture and gardens of Paris at that time. Turgot's plan of Paris is possibly the most ambitious urban mapping ever undertaken. Shows the whole of 18th century Paris and offers a wonderful perspective on the city prior to Baron Georges Eugène Haussmann’s 19th-century redesign.
Turgot, who held the mayor-like office of Prévôt des Marchands de Paris, commissioned Louis Bretez and Claude Lucas to produce this map in 1734. Oriented to the east on an axonometrical projection, this map is best understood as an aerial view where in every building, window, tree, shadow and park is shown. It took the team nearly five years of exhaustive sketching and surveying to assemble this masterpiece. In order to produce the thousands of sketches and surveys required to complete this map, Bretez was issued a permit to enter every building in Paris. The completed plan which consists of twenty individual sheets, can be assembled into a massive and striking display roughly 8 feet by 10 feet.
(via map-fair.com)
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| The map at Antony Todd's Store in NYC |
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Magnifique!
Some of Christian Dior's most beautiful Dresses featured elaborate floral embroidery. This example is called "Vilmorin' (detail shown), from the Spring/Summer 1952 collection and features delicate Daisies that seem to grow from an organza ground.
photo by Sacha
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Cream Butterfly
Jil Sander Campaign
Season: Spring 1992
Photographer: Nick Knight
Model: Tatjana Patitz
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Yellow is happy color
Diane Keaton in a yellow dress ?!? Unusual! Killer body...
source: vintage Harper's Bazaar
Saturday, September 25, 2010
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Style Inspiration ~ Lime Green Tweed
I am going crazy for this lime green tweed piece Penelope Cruz is wearing in a vintage editorial.
I don't think I'll find it in a store, will have to make it myself.
source unknown
I don't think I'll find it in a store, will have to make it myself.
source unknown
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