The timeless elegance of Tilda Swinton & a magnificent 1930’s mansion.
“Io sono l’amore” is the title of the 2009 Italian film starring Tilda Swinton as a “haute bourgeoise” in Milan who lives with her wealthy husband and family in a grand modernist mansion.
Artists and their Cats
Jean Michel Basquiat – 1982 – photograph by James Van Der Zee
Just after having, once again, a heated debate over lunch with my dog loving friends, where, once again, I had to defend the perceived “uselessness” of cats, I came across a charming book titled “Artists and their Cats” at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena.
A 25 000 dollar Panama hat anyone?
My late friend Myles’ “Super Fino” Panama hat
You heard that right, I got that price straight from the elegant and knowledgable hat maker extraordinaire, Orlando Palacios, owner of Worth & Worth in New York.
Logo of the Aldine Press
“Whoever you are, Aldus asks you again and again what it is you want from him, state your business briefly, and then immediately go away.”
This was the “inviting” text above the Venetian shop of the printer Aldus Manutius in the late 1400’s. The scholar and humanist Aldus Manutius (1449 –1515) was perhaps the greatest printer and publisher of the Italian Renaissance.
Perhaps the world’s first “brand” logo from the first century AD
Glass is one my all-consuming passions, I collect it from all over the world, but ancient glass is perhaps the most fascinating of all. Despite its fragility, beautiful glass objects have survived the ravages of time and none are more compelling than these signed pieces by Ennion.
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