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Riviera Cocktail 22 Aug 2009 | 06:18 pm
This week has been impossibly busy and it was remiss of me not to have posted earlier and further to the point, I still do not have good photographs of the boiserie panel to post ... I will post some ...
A Labour of Love 15 Aug 2009 | 02:35 pm
As the spring weather starts to warm, I am about to commence restoration of a boiserie panel. It is important in these matters, when using certain mediums, to have air temperature and moisture levels ...
Scent of a Colour, Tea Roses 12 Aug 2009 | 12:10 am
"Beautiful in their irregularity, distinct in their properties, unique in appearance, we confess that we admire them above all others, and that their charms for us would depart were they aught else" s...
Heavy Roses, Steichen 8 Aug 2009 | 06:07 pm
Heavy Roses, Voulangis, France, 1914, is said to be the last photograph taken by Edward Steichen in France before the Great War. 'Heavy Roses' seems to capture forever the closing moments of the fin ...
Love ... by the Numbers 2 Aug 2009 | 12:05 pm
thank you Marie-Lan Nguyen (Jastrow)! Psyché ranimée par le baiser de l'Amour (Psyche revived by the kiss of Love). Marble, 1793. executed by Antonio Canova (Italian, 1757–1822) at the commission of...
EmpireLady: Resident Muse 30 Jul 2009 | 08:00 pm
Empire Design is home to a resident muse: EmpireLady, she is somewhat misleading about her age, which is somewhere between 35 and 235 on a bad day. Having recently mastered the use of a very old typew...
ELIZABETH PEYTON .... live forever! 28 Jul 2009 | 11:57 pm
My favourite contemporary artist is without doubt the American painter, Elizabeth Peyton. Perhaps because as far as age goes, we are almost exact contemporaries. I first saw Peyton's work many years ...
A Chair for EmpireLady? 26 Jul 2009 | 04:00 pm
Sitting comfortably? EmpireLady is flapping through some old magazines and thinks that she might like a new chair or perhaps two, the old deckchair having suddenly lost its appeal. Some years ago Emp...
Musing On: Oranges and Penguins 26 Jul 2009 | 10:44 am
Over the last few days EmpireLady has determined the need for a therapeutic dose of orange.... the perfect antidote to winter misery? EmpireLady is so pleased with the orange trees outside her windo...
Favourite Things: John Derian 26 Jul 2009 | 10:18 am
THINGS I LIKE EmpireLady could not have said it better! If EmpireLady were to have to make a list of her top ten favourite artisans, John Derian would certainly be in that list. EmpireLady was asto...
