Twisted&Tangled

I find it to be relatively difficult to surround myself with nothing but beautiful things in the real world. Here, however, I can indulge. I enjoy everything from pretty clothes to pretty girls (occasionally even at the same time), from pretty tea pots to pretty libraries to pretty cats. All in all, it's a twisted, tangled mess of beauty and whimsy.

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ionlyweardresses:

{The Temple of Love at Marie Antoinette’s Petit Trianon, Versailles}

The small castle estate of Marie Antoinette is startlingly different than the Palace of Versailles.   I am sure both sides of this world reflect different parts of her personality - but there is a bonheur essentiel here.  

The architecture is more delicate and the rooms cozy and private.  The queen’s bedroom even had mirrored panels to shield the windows!  The design of the entire building seems to emphasize a private life apart from the scrutiny of visitors and servants.

The queen could have tea with friends in her private salon or escape to the bucolic farm right outside of the garden.  

And the Temple of Love!  Oh my goodness!  Go see it up close and kiss your honey there. Trust me on this! ;D

(via calantheandthenightingale)

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art-of-swords:

Silver-Gilt Hilted Small-Sword

  • Dated: circa 1670
  • Culture: French or Dutch
  • Measurements: Length: 95.5 cm / 37.6 inches

Fitted with later tapering blade of flattened hexagonal section, the forte of the swords comes with wide central fuller along each side etched and gilt with whorled designs with a central line of applied alternate silver florets and oval and a crowned profile bust in an oval.

The cast and chased hilt is comprised slightly upturned and the double shell-guard is decorated in relief on the inner and outer sides with Zeus in a chariot drawn by two eagles and a Classical warrior in armour in a chariot drawn by horses. Each have in between naked demi-figures placed against a pierced ground and with a grotesque mask above.

The quillon-block is decorated on each side with a putto-head between demi-figures, a horned satyr-mask beneath with partly reeded arms. The reeded rear quillon and knuckle-guard are issuing from the mouth of a monster.

The former comes with a terminal formed as a demi-figure in the round holding a bow, the latter with mustachioed grotesque-masks back and front centred on a standing naked female figure. The globular pommel is built en suite with later grip bound and varying thicknesses of twisted gilt wire.

Source: Copyright © Peter Finer

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davidhorvitz: The Distance of a Day. A video of a sunset in Los Angeles made by my mother with her iPhone next to a video of a sunrise in the Maldives made by me. They were recorded simultaneously. At the exact same moment the sun was setting in Los Angeles it was rising in the Maldives. We were watching the sun together, thousands of miles apart.

davidhorvitz:

The Distance of a Day. A video of a sunset in Los Angeles made by my mother with her iPhone next to a video of a sunrise in the Maldives made by me. They were recorded simultaneously. At the exact same moment the sun was setting in Los Angeles it was rising in the Maldives. We were watching the sun together, thousands of miles apart.

(via so--darkness-i-became)