Wisteria Lamp
Tiffany and Co.
1903-1905
National Gallery of Victoria
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"Jilted."
I've been laughing at this horse's face for a week.
(source: Yours Truly and One Hundred Other Original Drawings by James Montgomery Flagg, 1908.)
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posting this black gown on my pink main because everyone needs to see this photo of me at the ball. sans gloves, quelle scandale !
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New York, 1904. "Knickerbocker Trust Building and Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Fifth Avenue at W. 34th Street."
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Some studies I did this morning of the Jeanne d’Arc sculpture by Antonin Mercié (ca. 1890).
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Circus performer, early 1900s
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~ Alphonse Mucha, advertisement postcard, Moet et Chandon (1899)
via vmfa.museum
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Entrance to Kasbah
Henri Matisse 1912
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“Our ordinary mind always tried to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but this is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.”
― E.F. Schumacher, A Guide for the Perplexed
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Circa 1900s postcard of university girls being girls: smoking, drinking, fighting, gambling and asking the important questions, namely: "Wer zahlt den Früh-schoppen?" ("Who's paying for the morning pint?")
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Evening Dress
Jay's Ltd. (London, England)
c.1908
Victoria & Albert Museum (Accession Number: T.193&A-1970)
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Goal of being a real life impressionist painting, realized. x
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a close friend hosted a going away tea party in my honor, and I threw together different pieces in my closet/night gown drawer to make a turn of the century vibe happen. | IG
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“Smartly dressed couple seated on an 1886-model bicycle for two”, from the National Archives, photograph dated 1911.
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