Perfume (Parfum), ca. 1900. Published by Editions de la Trading Company. Color lithograph on card stock. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Gift of Leonard Lauder. 2012.6949.12
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Category: Just Because
Girls at a Woolworth’s Perfume Counter, 1947
This photograph was taken in 1947 by Stanley Kubrick, when he was a staff photographer for LOOK magazine in New York. LOOK no longer exists, nor does Woolworth’s. I wonder where these two girls are today, and whether they still wear perfumes, and if so, which ones.
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Just Because: Eastman Johnson, Catching the Bee (1872)
Eastman Johnson, Catching the Bee, 1872. Oil on board. The Newark Museum, Purchase 1958 Wallace M. Scudder Bequest Fund 58.1.
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Happy Bastille Day!
My “fragrance of the day” will be Atelier Cologne’s Sous le Toit de Paris. Are you wearing or reading anything French-inspired today?
Image: Willy Ronis, Les Amoureux de la Bastille (1957), via Christies.
A Gilded Age Dressing Table
I was just looking through the exhibition catalogue Gilded New York: Design, Fashion, and Society, edited by Donald Albrecht and Jeannine Falino (published in 2013, so it’s fairly recent!), and I wanted to share this photograph of an arrangement evoking a “Lady’s Dressing Table.” It includes a glass flask in the shape of a swan (1885-1910, retailed by the jeweler Theodore B. Starr), a dance card with a mother-of-pearl cover, a decorative vial of smelling salts, and a sapphire brooch from Tiffany & Company. The stunning silver scent bottles, dated 1886, were also created by Tiffany.
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