Saturday 24 December 2016

2016

Merry Christmas, 2016

🎄🎁🌈❣️🍾🥂

and

Happy New Year (2017)

Saturday 15 October 2016

Tartan Brigade

Photographer : Helene Sandberg
Stylist : Karen Mullins
Kensington & Chelsea : November 2016

Sunday 11 September 2016

She Bought A Liberty Scarf

A Booklet, 1935
Illustrations : Joyce Dennys
From : Liberty / British Colour Pattern
Text : Marie-Therese Rieber
Liberty & CO LTD
London

Thursday 8 September 2016

The lover is moved by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which it perceives, and it unites with it and they become one and the same thing. The work is the first thing born of the union; if the thing that is loved be base, the lover becomes base. When the thing taken into union is in harmony with that which receive it, there follow delight, pleasure, and satisfaction. When the lover is united to the beloved it finds rest there; when the burden is laid down there it finds rest…

Notebooks : Leonardo da Vinci
Selected : Irma A. Richter
An introduction and Notes : Thereza Wells
Preface : Martin Kemp
Oxford World’s Classic

A selected extract : Lun

Painting : Lady with an Ermine (Dama con l'ermellino/ Leonardo da Vinci, 1489-90)

Tuesday 9 August 2016

Diotima's

You start by loving one attractive body and step up to two; from there you move on to physical beauty in general, from there to the beauty of people’s activities, from there to the beauty of intellectual endeavours, and from there you ascend to that final intellectual endeavour, which is no more or no less than the study of that beauty, so that you finally recognise true beauty. (Socrates’ speech (of Diotima), Symposium, Plato)

Symposium : Plato
A translation : Robin Waterfield
Oxford World’s Classic

A selected extract : Lun

A painting image : The Birth of Venus (Nascita di Venere/ Sandro Botticelli, 1485)