The Fury of Achilles by Charles-Antoine Coypel, 1737.

"My rage, my fury would drive me now to hack your flesh away and eat you raw – such agonies you have caused me"

- Achilles to Hector

Vatican Council II

Charles X of France State Coach.

A Look We Like

Magister Dixit:

"Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery—celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from—it’s where you take them to."

- Jim Jarmusch

The Fall of the Damned, Peter Paul Rubens. 1621. Alte Pinakothek, Munich

The Fall of the Damned, Peter Paul Rubens. 1621. Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Home Sweet Home

Hubert de Givenchy at home.

Why Don't You?

Dolce Gabbana Fall 2014

 The chimneypiece in the Drawing Room at Calke Abbey.

Happy Valentine's

“I am tired of the cult of youth. The cultural rejection of old age, the stigmatization of wrinkles, grey hair, of bodies furrowed by the years. I am fascinated by Diana Vreeland, Georgia O’Keeffe and Louise Bourgeois, women who have let time embrace them without ever cheating. Society today condemns this, me, I celebrate it. For this session of fine jewelry, I imagined a man and a woman who had been together for a long time, faithful to each other and always incandescent with desire.”

- Tom Ford

Photo by Jeanloup Sieff. Paris, 1956.

Peace. Puvis de Chavannes,1867.

Morpheus and Iris, Pierre-Narcisse Guerin, 1811.