Persian ewer with human and animal figures and calligraphy inscriptions, dating back to the 17th century CE. Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV.

Photo by Babylon Chronicle

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Edited for the synopsis of Kind Hearts and Coronets-

When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be buried in the family mausoleum, Louis avenges his mother's death by attempting to murder every family member who stands between himself and the family fortune. But when he finds himself torn between his longtime love and the widow of one of his victims, his plans go awry

Huntington Library and gardens. Los Ángeles. California. Photos @alixelay

Side Chair from the Worsham-Rockefeller Dressing Room

1881-1882

George A. Schastey & Co.

In 1881, Arabella Worsham, then-mistress of railroad magnate Collis P. Huntington, hired George A. Schastey & Co. to decorate her townhouse at 4 West Fifty-Fourth Street in New York City. The resulting artistic interiors would have been considered the height of cosmopolitan style in the early 1880s and were emblematic of Worsham’s quest to fashion her identity as a wealthy, prominent woman of taste. When Worsham married Huntington in 1884, she sold the house, fully furnished, to John D. and Laura Spelman Rockefeller, who made few subsequent changes to the decorations. Following Mr. Rockefeller’s death, the house was demolished in 1938, yet some furnishings, large-scale architectural elements, and three interiors were preserved, and the rooms were donated to local museums by John D. Rockefeller Jr.

This side chair of satinwood and purpleheart, one of a pair, is part of the suite (2009.226.1–.4) that furnished Worsham’s elaborately decorated dressing room, one of the preserved interiors now installed in The American Wing (Gallery 742). These objects were part of a decorative program that encompassed every aspect of the room, including the architectural woodwork, lighting, stenciled wall-treatment, painted ceiling and frieze, textiles, and other furnishings. On the chair’s back, the marquetry decoration of grotesque masks and vines echoes the ornamental motifs in the dressing room’s architectural woodwork. The overall form is light and rectilinear. The tapered front legs with cascading bellflowers channel the spirit of English Neoclassical designers such as Robert Adam and George Hepplewhite. It rests on castors, allowing it to be moved easily within the room.

Although few objects can be attributed to George A. Schastey & Co., the high quality of their work – as seen in this fine example – was comparable to other prominent firms of the Gilded Age, including Herter Brothers and Pottier & Stymus. At its peak in the early 1880s, the firm employed at least 125 people in its workshops. Their distinctive designs are steeped in Renaissance sources with flourishes from the Islamic world and the British design reform movement.

The MET (Accession Number: 2009.226.3)

Forest Street, Huntington, Arkansas.

boston, massachusetts 1975

aerial, from the prudential tower

photograph by nick dewolf https://www.flickr.com/photos/dboo/3510612830/

Selasphorus Hummingbird by Ruby 2417 Via Flickr: No way to identify the species from this picture, both Rufous and Allens' are found in this area at that time of year. Huntington Gardens, Pasadena, Ca. Jan. 2022.

Herdcon 2024, Marshall University, Huntington WV

Persian panel of glazed tiles from the 17th century EC. Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV.

Photo by Babylon Chronicle

Jack Cook Field, Huntington, West Virginia, USA

We love a booked and busy Glen!

Bring on the Hit Man promotion, the Twisters promotion, filming Huntington, the Texas Film Hall of Fame and now this!

Catching rainbows

Huntington Gardens, Pasadena, CA

VOIDCON is coming to Huntington, WV on the 13th of October. It's the first year of this con from indie publishers Castaigne Publishing, which you can read more about here.

To help raise some of the funds they invested into the con, all their books are 50% off, including my illustrated short story collection Lockdown Laureate if you use the code VOID

Thursday, December 21st we photographed Lorna Shore, Currents, Rivers of Nihil, Varials and Entheos at The Paramount in Huntington, NY.

Be sure to check out the full photo gallery on our Facebook page here.

All photos © Andy Jimenez/How We Are 2023