September 7, 2011.Reading time 2 minutes.
I’ve managed to amass a considerable collection of Art Nouveau/Art Deco and vintage prints and postcards. My impulse to collect started almost accidentally when I came across Victorian postcards featuring women in romantic, dreamy poses standing with horses. These images really appeal to me — I love the dresses, the horses and the women in […]
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June 19, 2011.Reading time 4 minutes.
When I was growing up, my father collected antique signs. I loved some of the old images which were amongst the earliest commercial images. It’s not surprising, then, that I felt an immediate attraction to antique crate labels as soon as I saw them. Fruit and vegetable growers started using colorful labels on their caratesto […]
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April 18, 2011.Reading time less than 1 minute.
I’m crossing my fingers that it doesn’t rain. The forecast isn’t good. But then again, 50% of the time the meteorologists are wrong, aren’t they?
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April 3, 2011.Reading time less than 1 minute.
I found some wonderful Art Deco horse prints of horses from the early 1920s. These were originally published in a French magazine called Le Sourire (the smile). I will be rolling these images out over the next few days. I love the stylized, elegant design of these prints. I will probably get them framed but […]
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