Showing posts with label model. Show all posts
Showing posts with label model. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Monday, August 15, 2011
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Monday, June 20, 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 |
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Monday, May 9, 2011
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Monday, April 4, 2011
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Cream Butterfly
Jil Sander Campaign
Season: Spring 1992
Photographer: Nick Knight
Model: Tatjana Patitz
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Self-portrait
...with some of my old editorials.
shirt: vintage 45rpm
jeans: acne
nail polish: opi
assistant MdlR
shirt: vintage 45rpm
jeans: acne
nail polish: opi
assistant MdlR
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Monday, December 6, 2010
Oscar de la Renta Pre-fall 2011
This was a gorgeous Oscar de la Renta Pre-Fall 2011 Show. A riot of colors, perfect embroideries, exotic patterns and the best fabrics man can buy... Even better close-up, the quality is Haute-Couture. One piece after another was breath-taking, I am so happy I was invited to see everything from a short distance. I am feeling inspired to let more color into my life and not only to wear my old black, navy off-white and brown colors. Color me happy !
What a delicious treat on an otherwise gloomy Monday afternoon.
all pictures by me
What a delicious treat on an otherwise gloomy Monday afternoon.
all pictures by me
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