Category Archive: world

Paris fleas

Paris fleas

Flea chairs are a tad difficult to carry on the metro, let alone back to a guest couch, so I sadly had to forego each purchase. I will go back with a car next time! and suffer the drive and the tunnel, since what I saw would make it all worth it.

 

Kanagawa Biennial World Children’s Exhibition.

Kanagawa Biennial World Children’s Exhibition.

“To foster the dreams and creativity of today’s young children who will be the bearers of tomorrow through the art, and also to further understanding of the world’s diverse cultures and differences in global liefstyles.”

 

Russborough House

Russborough House

The abundance of yellow and the wall-to-wall tomes in a square room of not too large a scale make it very cosy. Having said that I think I would want to be sticking my head around the door at the Picasso, Gainsborough and tapestries in the sitting room next to it; not to mention that music room.

 

Jamie Beck

Jamie Beck

There is no sound yet there are fleeting moments. Rather than frozen in time the image is captured, held for a moment and released once more to captivate.

 

Pitt Rivers behind the glass

Pitt Rivers behind the glass

My first encounter of the museum floor had me standing in front of these two creatures. Formidable and beautiful, these birds of prey are as close as many of us would hope to get and an amazing opportunity to study the feathers and shapes in their beautiful plumage.

 

Bardith on Madison

Bardith on Madison

Favorite Manhattan stores… Bardith is on this list for sure…the beginnings of an education.

 

Decorative arts in Ireland

Decorative arts in Ireland

There is a quality of wild, abandoned, unabashed florality about these hand painted pieces from the early 1800s.

 

Luas to Guinness

Luas to Guinness

Up and around the corner you walk past pimply pubs on ramshackle corners until a leafy lane way lures you into the driveway of the Guinness factory itself. The rising machinery of its pumping and grinding furnaces peaks out over the dull brick walls.

 

a place for the bike and the saddle blanket, Berlin loft

a place for the bike and the saddle blanket, Berlin loft

A worn, torn warehouse loft is the epitome of bedraggled style and finesse. Spot the saddle blanket if you can…

 

“Ich bin ein Berliner!” inside

“Ich bin ein Berliner!” inside

Inside a spacious artists loft on the top floor of a Berlin warehouse apartment block. The surfaces!… need I say more.