Lady Honoria & a hat

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Milliner Philip Treacy has described mass-produced fascinators as "no more than headbands with a feather stuck on with a glue gun". (linked in text),
 they are dead-and he's happy to burn them in effigy.

This bergère - round disk-like hat with crown only slightly elevated, foundation of linen completely covered with polychrome feathers; lined with pale pink taffeta, one pale pink silk ribbon.. English or French, 1750–75, is just what's in order. Why not something of beauty & of the bizarre?

but something a little more Boucher-than Braque.

 

 François Boucher - Madame Bergeret holding her bergère

no need to fret about the rain. these feathers have a deliciously melted effect and really now- is this exquisite?

obviously- lured back to the 18th century...a pair of gentlemen, Edward Meadham and Benjamin Kirchhoff of  Meadham Kirchhoff

 & anyway-who could deny Honoria Lyndon?

scene from Barry Lyndon

Lady Honoria Lyndon is now on Pinterest here.

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very PINteresting

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I'm getting on with Pinterest. I will have to say it is too too addicting, but it is a perfect spot for jumping off and swimming in technicolor seas searching for things to bring back to little augury. It wakes up little augury's grey cells. Some of the topics I've explored on little augury are just taking hold there-while others have multiplied.

Fortune and the Author, Paris 1410.

My mother has also joined in the thing and has her own boards-but we have several we share. Each of us has a board with our initials or in my case one for little augury. Here we can swap ideas that catch our attention and Pin It! I've incorporated my design projects into boards of their own where I'm sharing ideas for clients-textiles, furniture, color, inspiration, etc. It's a quick way to make notes and add details without downloading lots of images and emailing them. The Pinterest board seems to open up the "dialog" with clients - immediately.

Oh Grow UP is a place where I can hoard the images that shaped my design taste as a child and young adult. You would be surprised at how strong these influences remain in my design DNA today.

Me, Myself & I is a place where I can drop things I'm considering wearing, or buying-or recovering-(it happens). Though I never plan to replace my Clarence House camel mohair sofa -a chair in the same fabric after 20 + years has suffered under the CAT.(no I don't have a place to PIN the CAT) Zetta has been digging up Rose Cumming's silk damask on an antique Swedish bench for awhile. Truth told-the fabric was beginning to wear a bit-and with that inch-she took a mile. This board holds some fabric possibilities for recovering these pieces of furniture.

Boards like Summer Straw-SphinX and Kaftan are topics I've explored here in the past and they continue to blow on these boards. Renaissance Art has a place of its own along with the artists Crivelli, Liotard, and Helleu all splintering off into boards of their own.

I've found a Pinner whose boards are All Things Proust-it's impressive.
 As with any thing we get the most out of a thing that we put into it.

Lucy, Sonya, & the Kaleidoscope

 As with most stories, fiction drives many more than fact. The vagaries of a story always add an allure- as with the John Lennon song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds." Whatever the realities of the song- I've always conjured the fantastical kaleidoscope patterns of Sonia Delaunay. While you may conjure an LSD induced trip via Sargent Pepper, or Lennon's son Julian's drawing about a classmate "Lucy"-songs become personal-we draw our own pictures from them.

 Picture yourself in a boat on a river
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies

 Somebody calls you,you answer quite slowly
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes

Cellophane flowers of yellow and green
Towering over your head

Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes
And she's gone

 Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain
Where rocking horse people eat marshmellow pies

Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers
That grow so incredibly high

Newspaper taxis appear on the shore
Waiting to take you away

 Climb in the back with your head in the clouds
And you're gone 

 Picture yourself on a train in a station
With plasticine porters with looking glass ties

 Suddenly someone is there at the turnstyle
The girl with the kaleidoscope eyes 

 Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Lucy in the sky with diamonds

An abstract painter, Sonia Delaunay is today best known for her kaleidoscope textiles that appeared in the 1920's and 30's in interiors, fashion, film and advertisement. Her ability to translate her canvases into the practical-and commercial made her a wealthy woman. She and her husband painter Robert Delaunay were founders of Orphism-an art movement drenched in colour and geometry. Sonia referred to her work outside her more important works on canvas as "exercises in colour."

Designers continue to be inspired by her kaleidoscope eyes today-

(plasticine porter-by Robert Delaunay)

there is more about Delaunay here from the 2011 exhibition of her work at the Cooper Hewitt.

about the Lennon song here

most of the Delaunay images are from Red List here, or at pinterest.

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pindundancy©

noun pl. pindundancies©

the repetition or superfluity of information on pinterest boards. A high degree of pindundancy is built into pinterest boards when pinners do not edit them.

all 4 photographs of Nicole de Lamargé in Pierre Cardin, 1967.

PIN PIN PIN

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after Pinning IT at Pinterest for a few weeks- joining the PIN IT craze-
I'm torn.
Meaning-Do I go On?

It's addicting-but so is coffee-
I am still drinking.
It's addicting-so is IL-2 Sturmovik.

It's maddening- there are many many images,pictures with misinformation-uncredited-no identity at all.
It's maddening-so is the land line phone-
It still rings on occasion and still feels like a necessity.
(I bet there are lots of Pins for that)


 To Pin or Not To Pin?
& why?

Pin this

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I do-I  "Pin."
 No- I don't Love to Pin-I do pin.
I indulge- I'm intrigued.
I wonder?
But is it just me-or is it becoming like a body function-a sneeze maybe? an involuntary function maybe?

Is "thinking" going on?

Is something getting lost? 
Is something getting diluted?

Anne Louis Girodet de Roussy Trioson (French Neoclassical, 1767-1824) ~ Drapery study for a deluge; crayon. white chalk on paper; 1806.






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