06 Thursday Jul 2017
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This is such a perfectly summery perfume advertisement that I had to post it. I don’t know anything about Princesse Isabelle, or about this fragrance, other than that it seems to be a romantic floral eau de toilette.
What I do know is that Princesse Isabelle selected a painting by Claude Monet for this ad…
13 Tuesday Jun 2017
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Last week I took a “busman’s holiday” and spent an afternoon going to museums. The Cooper-Hewitt was on my list because I wanted to catch the temporary exhibition The “Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.”
I had already happily wandered through rooms and rooms of radios, jewelry, textiles, architectural renderings, and furniture, when I spied a small but rich selection of perfume bottles. Here are my snapshots…They’re not great, but they give an idea of what I saw.
29 Monday May 2017
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Floyd Davis, “GI in a Perfume Shop,” 1944. Oil on canvas. Via SOLDIERS.
14 Sunday May 2017
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Paul Iribe’s illustration of Jeanne Lanvin and her daughter Marguerite, as used for Lanvin merchandise—including perfumes.
10 Wednesday May 2017
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This week in The New Yorker (May 15, 2017)…a scent-related cartoon from the peerless Roz Chast.
Finally, the real life smells of NYC that Bond no. 9 has never addressed.
08 Monday May 2017
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Have you ever visited someone’s home and wished you could peek into his or her closet? It’s ok; I won’t tell.
The temporary installation “Sara Berman’s Closet” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art gives us that opportunity, in a staged yet subtly effective way. It’s a recreation of the closet of one woman who lived alone in Greenwich Village from 1982 through 2004, and who happened to be the mother of artist Maira Kalman.
14 Tuesday Mar 2017
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This print, titled L’Odorat, was issued in France circa 1750. It’s a typical example of the Rococo style: beautifully dressed aristocrats engaging in flirtation while enjoying a garden landscape, all rendered in soft, bright colors and delicate curves.
