Toamna / Fall

De citit neaparat (8)- Nancy Mitford

GORE VIDAL

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn.
Gore Vidal

photo : ISTANCOOL

Marie Antoinette: "I Want Candy"

Debutantes

Zile si nopti - martie

Afternoon Tea at Chatsworth

Manhattan Apartment - Nina Griscom

Sursa : Architectural Digest - Feb. 2012

Wish list

André-Charles Boulle (1642-1732) Bureau plat, 1715 Marqueterie Boulle - 198 x 93 cm Jean-Baptiste Limonne Table de bibliothèque, 1786 Acajou, bronze doré - 390 x 185 cm

Zile si nopti - februarie

Downton Abbey

Mda, cina la Chatsworth

I wish to be Queen 's guest

Each couple arrives between six and seven o’clock, to be greeted by an equerry and lady-in-waiting and escorted to their suite in the Lancaster, York, or King Edward III tower. The customary accommodation includes two large bedrooms and bathrooms, a ladies’ dressing room and commodious sitting room furnished with desks equipped with writing paper and pens, tables laden with mineral water, decanters of whisky, sherry, and gin, cornucopias of fruit, bowls of peppermint candies, jars of biscuits, and vases of fresh flowers. ... She assigns a footman and housemaid to serve as each guest’s valet or ladies’ maid Their job is to unpack the suitcases, fold underwear in gauzy organza bags, line up cosmetics and perfume bottles in perfect order, whisk away clothing for washing and ironing (“better than any dry cleaner in London,” said the wife of a Commonwealth diplomat), draw the bath at the guest’s requested temperature, drape a large a towel over a nearby chair, lay out clothes, and before departure time repack everything with tissue paper. Sally Bedell Smith "Elizabeth the Queen; The Life of a Modern Monarch ".

Chatsworth in Winter

De citit neaparat (7): Christine Gräfin von Brühl

Blithe Spirit

Nostalgie

Parisian Christmas

Noël - Ruxandra Donose, Teodora Gheorghiu și Leontina Văduva

Aura Urziceanu

Expozitie de Craciun

Posh Christmas

Christmas Shopping (1)

Count Guy TYREL de POIX, founder of S.E.R.V.E. and creator of Vinul Cavalerului and Terra Romana, has prepared for stomatology which he gave up to deal with the 50 hectares of vineyards inherited in Corsica. He came for the first time in Romania in 1993 and in 1994 founded S.E.R.V.E. (Societatea Euro-Romana de Vinuri de Exceptie) which is the producer of two of the most popular range of wines on the Romanian market: Terra Romana and Vinul Cavalerului. This was the beginning of the "Romanian adventure", adventure which made him fall in love with this country. You can find them here http://www.serve.ro/

Christmas dinner (1)