little augury: requiscat in pace

26 July 2018

requiscat in pace

may she begin to rest in peace

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.-John Keats*

Lucy Helmore Birley

(1960-2018)

* a favorite poet of Lucy Birley

photograph by Robert Mapplethorpe of the then Lucy Ferry

The Times here

Hamish Bowles poetic remembrance at Vogue here

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LaurentJuly 27, 2018 at 11:12 AM
positively phenomenal picture
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My book HOW THEY DECORATED, for Rizzoli, was published in April of 2017. I have been an interior designer for over 30 years & have an abiding passion for the original, & history. Little Augury was born on New Year's Eve 2008. It began as a way of continuing a conversation with a beloved mentor & the promise to keep just a bit of his wit & wisdom alive by sharing it whenever possible. Little Augury focuses on interior design, art, literature, fashion & social history with an eye, always looking back to the past, in hope of understanding what is authentic & what will endure & what connects us to our environment. Always listening for the footstep on the old stair-the sound of lives that walked that way.

26 July 2018

requiscat in pace

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