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certain intensity of feeling. You can't count these by dozens in your life but the very strength of the emotion makes these rare experiences memorable. I'm sure what triggers it is very personal and maybe related to a receptive state of mind.</div>
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Have you had at least one of these? With nature, art, music?</div>
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I remember having it happen as a young girl riding over a bridge at sunset. Unfortunately, that sounds trite and very picture postcard, but I still remember the wonder of the sun's low-slung light glowing on the metal structure and the way our car was becoming part of the blaze. </div>
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This <i>grande dame</i> has appeared in these pages once before, she who inspired Proust for the character of the duchesse de Guermantes in <i>Remembrance of Things Past</i>. Despite the novelist's immortalization, she hadn't been a personality much in view. But these days <a href="http://le-style-et-la-matiere.blogspot.fr/2010/01/chez-la-comtesse-greffulhe.html" target="_blank">my post</a> is being clicked on wildly all because of a <a href="http://www.palaisgalliera.paris.fr/fr/expositions/la-mode-retrouvee" target="_blank">certain exhibit</a> about her very wonderous wardrobe. </div>
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Clearly, she the comtesse de Gruffulhe never liked to be cold!<br />
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A sense of <i>mise en scene</i>.</div>
If I had read about her before, studied her a bit, I hadn't realized just how important her own image was to her before seeing the revealing exhibit at the Palais Gallièra, <i><a href="http://www.palaisgalliera.paris.fr/fr/expositions/la-mode-retrouvee" target="_blank">La mode retrouvée: les robes trésors de la comtesse de Greffulhe</a> -</i><br />
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nor how calculated it all was.<br />
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Her extensive use of photography can only be compared to that of the Comtesse de Castiglione, that other image-controling comtessse who was her elder by 23 years. If the fascinating <a href="http://le-style-et-la-matiere.blogspot.fr/2013/10/comtesse-de-castiglione-fire-and-froth.html" target="_blank">comtesse of Castiglione </a>was melodramatic, la Greffulhe played more in the register of <span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">subtlety</span></span> and refinement. And as a reigning queen of the social scene, she staged her performances with a perfectionist's sense of detail in her costumes. She would arrive late, limit the time of her appearances in breath-taking toilettes that were out-of-time and place, then disappear. What is precious is rare! As for the photographs, they were mostly for herself - and posterity. She framed them for her home, but gave away very few.<br />
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Her wardrobe was the cornerstone of her persona. All the trips to all the best couture houses of the time were more to assure, she said, of what she would not wear, Worth often worked with her to create the gowns she felt suited her best, and <i>peu importe</i> if no one else was wearing a princess bodice those days. One dress by Worth was cut from a giant-scale Renaissance patterned silk velvet; he also devised a cape with the gift from the Czar Nicolas II of a Bokhara brocade. The Comtesse was eccentric, strange but always distinguished.<br />
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The exhibit also demonstrates a certain penchant for Fortuny and Babani.<br />
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Robert de Montesquiou, also proustified as Charlus, was a true kindred spirit. This uncle of very nearly her same age, encouraged the young Elisabeth in her obsession with finery and in carving out her own style. As Alexandra Bosc states in the exhibit catalogue, it is probable that, like dandies of the day, Countess Greffulhe attached metaphysical value to the elegance of dress, seeing in this "cult of self" the manifestation of her inner being,<br />
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"Mirror, mirror on the wall..."<br />
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Baudelaire said in <i>Le Peintre et la vie moderne</i> that she had<br />
<b>"a burning need to be an original."</b><br />
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The label of his fur-trimmed gown of gold brocade reads Worth, but it was actually designed by the young Paul Poiret when he was employed by that couture house. I recall from reading Poiret's memoirs that he, for one, did not appreciate this client. The Comtesse wore this opulent <i>robe Byzantine</i> to her daughter's wedding at <i>La Madeleine</i><br />
to which she contrived to arrive early,<br />
that is, before the bride was present.<br />
The papers of the day cooed that it was hard to judge which young lady was to be married and described the gold gown in minute detail hardly mentioning the wedding dress.<br />
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It must have been unbearably hot to be the daughter of such an original at times.<br />
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Marcel Proust, however, looked on the Comtesse, imperfect and narcissistic in her search for perfection - with awe and tolerance. Had she found a way to deal with the deception that came so quickly after her marriage and her husband's outlandish philandering? To Henry Greffulhe, she was a trophy, but the hunt was what mattered the most. Mr Proust wrote her a letter from which there is just this thought provoking snippet in the exhibit catalogue,<br />
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turning to<br />
Jeanne Lanvin, Nina Ricci, Maggy Rouff... and the color black.<br />
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Reports say that the Comtesse stayed supple and svelte through yoga and healthful lifestyle, always seeking to improve herself physically, mentally and spiritually. All this is not to say that Elisabeth Greffulhe thought only of bettering herself. She was utterly devoted to music and was a strong patron of the arts. She supported scientific advancement and charitable causes of her time. She also founded a Spiritualist institute that still active today.<br />
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The scenography takes a daring turn and goes so far as to suggest the Comtesse Greffulhe's death. Her earthly body is replaced by a gown laid upon a bier; it is so fresh, so tender - dare I say, young? - she has become a dress of chiffon and taffeta decorated with orchids.<br />
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I wonder if she also wore Worth's scent, <i>Je reviens</i>?<br />
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Elisabeth de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay,</div>
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La comtesse de Greffuhle </div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">and resurrected in 2016</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">... <i>une grâce qui trouble à l’égal d'une émotion artistique. Toutes les choses s'adoucissent autour d'elle en une délicieuse âme qui résume dans les plis de sa robe</i>.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">...a grace no less disturbing than an artistic emotion. Every thing </span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;">around her </span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;">sweetens in a delicious spirit that can be summed up in the folds of her dress.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Portrait de Madame</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Marcel Proust</span></b><br />
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- an art exhibit in a department store, <i>Le Bon Marché</i>.</div>
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Ai Weiwei might not always intend this approach and I might not like<br />
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English article and more (and better!) photos of the exhibit inside and outside<br />
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In the proud city of Lyon, </div>
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the fabric museum that contains 2.5 million works of textile history </div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Despite the fact that it is recognized as one of the largest and most important </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Can you imagine the textile collections of the Met, the V & A, or LACMA </span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And, the textile museum is not alone. </span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It is linked to an impressive decorative arts museum which would equally be shut down.</span></span><br />
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The current exhibit at the <a href="http://www.mtmad.fr/fr/Pages/default.aspx" target="_blank">Musée des tissus</a> is called <i>Le Genie de la Fabrique</i>.<br />
<span style="line-height: 21px;">"The exhibition is a tribute to the city of Lyon and its silk working citizens who were able, through their incredible sense of perfection and inventiveness, to elevate weaving fabric not only to the rank of a remarkable craft but to that of a true art."</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The exhibit is set to continue into June 2016. </span></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">but if a solution is not found this Friday, January 22, </span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 21px;">French textile technology and design is an extremely </span><br />
<span style="line-height: 21px;">important part of textile history, but the collection is not only French.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 21px;">It contains world textiles that span 4500 years.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Regula Schorta, director of the Swiss Abegg Foundation confirms,</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> It is one of the rare textile museums covering almost all fields, topics, regions. Its importance is global. I also want to emphasize the very important role of the museum in the field of restoration of antique textiles and training activities also concern international professionals.*</span></span><br />
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Chambre de la Reine Versailles<br />
design Jean-Francois Bony 1786<br />
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At the Victoria & Albert Museum, Lesley Miller is in complete accord: <i>The Textile Museum is one of the most important collections in the world both in size and quality and for its geographical and chronological scope. It is also unique for its silk collections of the local industry that had - and still has - international importance. It contributes to research worldwide through its reserves, its library, its and its permanent and temporary exhibitions.*</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">*quotes translated from an article by Didier Ryker of <i><a href="http://www.latribunedelart.com/les-musees-des-tissus-et-des-arts-decoratifs-de-lyon-des-collections-exceptionnelles-en-danger" target="_blank">Le Tribune de l'Art</a></i></span><br />
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Oh, irony! </span></div>
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Of course, the management of cultural heritage should never be a matter of trends.</div>
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<span style="line-height: 21px;">I don't want to believe the verse from Joni Mitchell will come to pass -</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 21px;"><i><b>Don't it always seem to go</b></i></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 21px;"><i><b>That you don't know what you've got</b></i></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 21px;"><i><b>'Til it's gone -</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 21px;">A good number of you have already signed the petition started by </span><br />
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</span>gésbihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18094108253356167918noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1567318375972114465.post-35133183653109930582016-01-04T15:54:00.001+01:002016-01-04T18:11:09.163+01:00It's a new day<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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The new year never seems real to me until the regular schedule begins again after the holidays. A little night prowler in search of crispy croquettes knocked over a porcelaine bowl of clementines during the night so I am not as fresh as I would like to be today after a sleep break to clean up the pieces that were all over the kitchen. There's so much to do without even considering resolutions. I need energy.</div>
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Cat food has to be rationed ever since two cats live under our roof. It's the slinky black panther who made mischief last night. Was he really hungry or just bored? These once reasonable eaters will gorge themselves just to prove to one another who can eat the most, but mostly it's the older tiger who throws his weight around to say who is boss.</div>
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Enthusiasm and the downward-facing dog pose (the cat just isn't the same) are my two favorite antidotes for fatigue.</div>
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<br />gésbihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18094108253356167918noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1567318375972114465.post-214893645525632372015-12-25T19:27:00.001+01:002015-12-26T17:11:07.632+01:00Boule de Noel<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I remember lying under the Chrismas tree, squeezed under fragrant branches with my brother, singing carols and gazing into the colorful ornaments from below. Ah, but I embellish; our tree was artificial in those days! The magic was there nonetheless. Our distorted faces were mostly noses in the shiny baubles - which only fueled our giggling in the giddy excitement of the season. I found a little of that shimmering joy in this very pretty Christmas ball (no nose though) and with it, I wish you a </div>
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I'm in the car now. The day will soon be ended and the landscape rolls by as the car moves along toward the heather and broom of Brittany beneath a beautiful peach colored sky. I will be back soon - never meant to be away so long, but once the the blogging habit is disturbed, it's hard to get back with a firm foothold. Until then I'll be listening to Bing and seeing the family for some more feasting and toasting, reminding my husband to chop some mistletoe for the new year and generally, prolonging this lovely interlude as long as possible. </div>
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gésbihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18094108253356167918noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1567318375972114465.post-31820809752241687422015-11-16T14:21:00.002+01:002015-11-16T17:09:18.620+01:00Le feu sacré<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I had arrived at the country house on the night of Friday the 13th, where in general we dine by candle light. It had been a fairly long drive with some heavy traffic where it wasn't expected. But we were happy to arrive, light the fires and begin a peaceful weekend. We didn't know what had happened back in Paris. Then just before going to bed, my worried sister called from the US thinking we were still at the apartment.</div>
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Sometimes we know there is far too much said of tragedy in the media - classic and social - and our minutes of silence could easily be multiplied by <b><i>1000</i></b><i style="font-weight: bold;">. </i> Yet how is it possible to speak again of art, of beauty, fabrics, decoration and other privileged preoccupations in a blog such as mine without aknowledging our mourning after the barbarous acts of terror in our beloved Paris,<br />
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The right words lack before the gravity of this situation </div>
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gésbihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18094108253356167918noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1567318375972114465.post-77735712854117716202015-10-31T17:22:00.000+01:002015-10-31T17:22:55.025+01:00Autumn leaves me happy<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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The season is still green, but the gold is coming along crisply. </div>
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where a sun low-hung plays among the leaves and shadows stretch out as days get shorter.<br />
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It's a time for long walks in the counryside, gathering chestnuts and mushrooms then<br />
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I love the colors of Fall, probably more than in all the other seasons.<br />
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Seen in a waiting room for guided tours at the château of Versailles. </div>
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Did that just happen - or did the designer do it on purpose? The spider is the very symbol of waiting. Happily, not one visitor was wrapped up as a meal before, during or after the tour.</div>
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No arachnophobe, but I'm not always completely relaxed around these creatures. </div>
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It's largely a question of their size, pilosity and proximity. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">late Victorian brooch from <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/gemedack/c-1900-spiderwebs-spiders/" target="_blank">P</a>interest</td></tr>
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and very definitely, their own woven art form and its imitations.</div>
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<i>"Why, just that, your friend," she grinned.</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bruno Freire <a href="http://www.ignant.de/2013/07/04/spider-furniture/" target="_blank">ignat</a></td></tr>
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Have you seen?</div>
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There seems to be a greater appreciation</div>
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of arachnian geometry recently -<br />
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and of the intricacies</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">lighting in the escalier Gabriel</span><br />
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and ingenious harmony of their webs.<br />
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Friend or foe, it's their season now. They come in to warm their legs.<br />
Everyone tells me that a house with spiders is a healthy house.<br />
Shouldn't we celebrate?!<br />
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Pinterest photos <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/gemedack/c-1900-spiderwebs-spiders/" target="_blank">here</a></div>
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Raoul Dufy <i>Le départ pour la soirée</i> 1935</td></tr>
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Going out, of course. </div>
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Half of the pleasure is in the anticipation. Getting ready, picturing the events. Not always easy after a long day at work and a full schedule with little time to change gears, let alone attire. </div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><i>Présentation de mode chez Schiaparelli</i> 1935</span></td></tr>
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But, in an ideal world , let's say it's the weekend - and you've made it there en beauté.</div>
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Just an ounce of imagination, and this scene is a dreamy foyer of a theatre filling up with lovely spectators dressed in honor of the evening, where you cross through and mingle in gentle <i>effluves</i> of perfume until the bell rings.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><i>Le cortège d’Orphée ou La musique</i></span></td></tr>
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This fabric is a jewel with its sumptuous warp dye work in the ground and the intricate play of weaves in the gold brocaded wefts like so much orfèverie. </div>
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Can you tell I'm glad to have my opera tickets now?!<br />
With sweaty palms, I waited for the precise minute the e-box office was to open, clicked on my date of choice in January and nothing was left. Strange and disappointing. An inside job, wouldn't you say? I chose another date, not nearly as convenient, but I managed to get my four tickets with grouped seating. <i>Il Trovatore</i> is for March. It's not easy to get tickets here in Paris.<br />
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I was away in the countryside over the weekend but the weather was nice in Paris too - much sunnier than in these pictures taken two weeks ago at the parc Monceau. </div>
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There was an air of the 1860s afoot. Found in a flash - the idea of the promenade spectacle dear to our ancestors comes to life in the right setting! A living tableau...with some anachronisms.<br />
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More about ruins and faux ruins, passing by parc Monceau, <a href="http://le-style-et-la-matiere.blogspot.fr/2009/05/popping-through-paintings.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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Degas <i>Deux hommes en pied </i>1867</div>
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I saw this painting recently in Troyes. It is it's unfinished state that catches the eye. The fantomatic figure is thought to be a young Count of Lastours at age 18. Well, so, everything cannot be completed and the abandoned work-in-progress has its own appeal, a little <i>mal-léché</i> has its place in a world too pristine.</div>
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The description of the Degas painting led me chez Christian Bérnard and Alexander Kochno at 36 rue Casimir Delavigne. While not quite pristine, it is a more peaceful space than I imagine in the dayly life the exhuberant artist couple. Everything fits - even if there are stocks of art works and books that have climbed aboard the very top of the bookcase -there is order in this detailed image. Work your way into the corner of this St Germain des Près apartment<br />
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<i>Le détail qui tue.</i><br />
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"So many heads, so many opinions," said Terrence.</div>
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Cats at your service?<br />
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A regretful monster squelched under the unrelentingly firm hold of<br />
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Sable from the Middle Ages;<br />
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A child's moony face carved in<br />
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<i>Tu m'as fait tourner la tête....</i><br />
Gentle, dear!<br />
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And as silly as it might be, all this relative roundness has me humming<br />
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In case you haven't seen it either, I've found this two minute video to be a beautiul demontration of the architecture and efficency of a very fine 18th century desk. A demo that would be silent if not for the doors and drawers and other movable parts that click and slide crisply into position at the biding of gloved hands. The desk is by the German cabinetmaker, master of marquetry and mechanisms, <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">David Roentgen,</span><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> who worked a great deal for the French court.</span></div>
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This is just a foretaste of the exhibit <b><i>18th Century aux sources du Design</i></b> at Versailles where works of decorative art are taken out of context to be appreciated as museographical specimens - jewels on pedestals - but as often as possible no longer monolithic and static. Instead they are up for analysis and finally reveal their proud secrets through a play of mirrors, neon lighting and documentary films.</div>
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For me, the French word <i>dessein</i> has always been the equivilant of <i>design, </i><br />
but it is the English expression (derived from the French in the 16th century) that is used today to get across in a flash the more modern conception of the not so recent idea,<br />
The idea, namely, that there is a skilled author and craftsman behind the desirable designed object and that that object contains a quality of innovation, of being up-to-date. That is an aspect that is hard to grasp when looking back through history. When it is done, it is often with condescension.<br />
Remember, no one who was interested in decoration in the 18th century wanted to hang on to Grandfather's old furniture. Antiques were from the antique world - Greece and Rome.</div>
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<span style="line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So often, the ancients and the moderns are in opposing camps.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Today's designers should be able to study these ancient constructions differently - </span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">with </span></span><span style="line-height: 21px;">the very definition of</span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 21px;"> </span><b style="font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px;">Respect = </b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 21px;"><i>to look back at something to better consider what is in the present.</i></span></div>
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for more on the exhibit see: <a href="http://www.chateauversailles.fr/les-actualites-du-domaine/evenements/evenements/expositions/18e-aux-sources-du-design" target="_blank">château de Versailles</a><br />
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Vanity <i>Olympia</i> by Nika Zupanc</td></tr>
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their respective arts, has created one of the most poetic moments in their
careers. Convoking us in a ring around a Tree of Light, we find stools,
the most primitive of furnishing elements. The exhibit called “Solstice,”
evokes the time of the year when diminishing light has become all the more precious.
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great craftsmanship in the most contemporary fashion. A beautiful and living
reminder that what is most important in life never really changes, that furniture
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It is possible for anyone in Paris to find a gold mine of fashion fabrics<br />
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My neighbor just asked me where to go for fabric in view of some very special occasions where she must be dressed <i>en conséquence</i>. I was pleased to pass along a very good address and thought some of you would appreciate it too.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In fact, this shop isn't really hidden at all, but its unassuming storefront will have been passed up by more than one fabric
enthusiast if she hasn’t been informed of the location in advance</span></span>. Costume-makers and stylists, however, all know about this Aladdin's cave of fabrics. The good thing is, you don't have to be a textile professional to go to <b><a href="http://www.degilles.com/" target="_blank">De Gilles Tissus</a>.</b> Venture past the plain threshold and the promise of fabric marvels awaits -many rarely accessible to the general public -<br />
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You might not even notice the famed Schiapperelli lobster design framed on the wall behind the front desk; it's half hidden by photos of family, friends and the exotic travels of the shop's owner, <span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><span style="line-height: 23.519998550415px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Catherine Kouliche-Goldman</span></span>.</span> Some of the fruit of those trips, suzanis and ikats are hanging nearby too, jostling the French silk in a neighborly way. You might say it's the colorful movie posters lining the stairwell that hint at the uncommonly high level of interest of the material here. Yes,<br />
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The majority of the merchandise is French, a portion of it comes from the UK and Italy, but most importantly e<span style="text-align: center;">very single fabric found in the shop</span><span style="text-align: center;"> has been chosen individually by Catherine Goldman, who guarantees its quality. Not for her, the bargain-container approach that some in the field practice. Catherine is the third generation owner in her family, though the trade has changed along the years from wholesale to retail. </span><span style="text-align: center;">Her stock today is a treasure trove of articles from buttons, ribbons and even vintage pantyhose to truly precious stuffs otherwise destined for couture houses. There are gold and silver braids and trim from a passementier<span style="color: #e06666;"> </span></span>specialized in metallics, fabrics from the 50s-80s of mills now defunct, overstock from today's manufacturers, as well as a more limited selection of valuable hand-crafted items from Uzbekistan, Indonesia, Peru....</div>
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This magnificent silk velvet on transparent ground has the flavor a Gruau illustration and I would guess it comes from the great house of Bouton-Renaud in Lyon known for hand-painted and high novelty articles of this sort. </div>
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De Gilles provides mostly high fashion fabrics but there are exceptions and of course, your own creativity can come into play here. The haute couture is well-known for using furnishing fabrics to suit its own ends, I say these things can go both ways with a little good judgement. After all, the notion of specificity between fashion and furnishing fabrics only came about in the late 18th century. So, a length for a skirt, a bit more for drapes - Scarlet did make a dress of her curtains....</div>
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Some of France's finest -<br />
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The coppery coating of this Grand-Siècle-inspired design gives this fabric a lot of punch!</div>
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This billowy silk mousseline (chiffon) was printed to resemble an Indonesian ikat </div>
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Among the exotic textiles can be found a few costumes and hats.<br />
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Rare lacquered silk brought back from Taiwan.<br />
This ancient artisanal technique that uses mud to achieve a noble,<br />
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cotton, linen, hemp - here a mix of weaves in bold blue ramie<br />
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threads left hanging - but oh, what threads!</div>
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<b>And another part of the treasure is Catherine Goldman herself.</b> She is no-run-of-the-mill shop owner! She was educated at the Ecole du Louvre, understands the arts and is passionate about fabric's place among them - as well as in world economy.<br />
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Like many of us in the textile profession, Catherine has become more and more concerned with the problem of the diminishing quality of textiles today and what's more, with the steady loss of the textile culture. She does her part to remedy to the problem by raising consciousness through a very lively blog called <i><a href="http://degillestissus.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Passion Textiles</a> </i>that I warmly recommend. You will find articles on the history of various fabrics and their techniques, reporting on the textile craft from around the globe, as well as practical tips on care and some op-ed pieces, too.<br />
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Mass production and the battle of always more-for-less has led to a certain disregard for fabrics. What was once valued as essential and often precious is taken for granted because too often it is replaced with ersatz materials that don't last a season. Those who have not been educated to distinguish quality often settle for what is easiest and cheapest to obtain.<br />
We live with textiles everyday. They are our second skin. They transform our homes. Don't settle.<br />
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<b>GHOST</b>, n. The outward and visible sign of an inward fear.</div>
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<b>"There is one insuperable obstacle to a belief in ghosts. A ghost never comes naked: he appears either in a winding-sheet or "in his habit as he lived." To believe in him, then, is to believe that not only have the dead the power to make themselves visible after there is nothing left of them, but that the same power inheres in textile fabrics. Supposing the products of the loom to have this ability, what object would they have in exercising it?</b><br />
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<b> And why does not the apparition of a suit of clothes sometimes walk abroad without a ghost in it? These be riddles of significance. They reach away down and get a convulsive grip on the very tap-root of this flourishing faith."</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY</i></span></div>
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