30 May, 2011
28 May, 2011
27 May, 2011
Back to WWII
"Remember gentlemen, it's not just France we are fighting for, it's the champagne!"
- Sir Winston Churchill, british statesman
26 May, 2011
25 May, 2011
Beautiful People
Carlos IV of Spain and his Family. Oil on canvas painting by Goya. 1800
"The king looks like a brewer, and the queen appears to be a waitress... or worse, but what diamonds did Goya painted on her!"
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
24 May, 2011
Deutschland Über Alles?
Charles V in Armour. Rubens. 1548.
"I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse."
- Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Why Don't You?
1950. Dining-room at Wilton House. Smith, the buttler has been with the Earl and Countess of Pembroke for 36 years. There was a time when the family had 28 indoor servants, but the drastic postwar chances do not worry the Pembrokes:
"All through the war, we ate behind a screen in our living-room."
- Sidney Herbert, 16th Earl of Pembroke, 13th Earl of Montgomery
22 May, 2011
Oriental Fever
Patricia Lopez-Willshaw photographed by Cecil Beaton during the course of Charles de Beistegui's ball. Venice, 1951.
20 May, 2011
Magister Dixit:
"If you like to be relaxed, you will never get the look. Fashion is always unconfortable."
- Anna dello Russo
Guilty as Charged
"I don’t have guilty pleasures, as I find guilt very unpleasant. But I love beautiful things - so maybe that is my guilty pleasure?"
-Daphne Guinness
19 May, 2011
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