A new year, a new Tumblr project! I’m still reading Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch, taking my time (and taking occasional short breaks when the novel’s many episodes of loss overwhelm me a bit). In the meantime, I’ve started a Tumblr as a sort of collage-homage, juxtaposing images of places, objects, and works of art that occur in the story. You can view it here.
To see my other obsessive posts about Donna Tartt, click here.
Image: via BBC.
My latest post on Now Smell This is a list of my favorite perfumes, bath and body products, and home fragrance of 2013. You can read it here.
Wishing all my American friends a very happy Thanksgiving Day, full of good company and good cheer.
(My mother gave me this book when I was ten years old, knowing my love for Little Women. Maybe I’ll re-read it this weekend!)
This photograph shows a vanity designed by Paul T. Frankl, who furnished the Los Angeles home of comedian and radio personality Joe Penner and his wife Eleanor in 1938. It’s a classic piece of Art Deco design and, best of all, it displays more than two dozen perfume bottles.
I see Vol de Nuit, Shalimar, and Liu (Mrs. Penner was apparently a Guerlain-lover!), Bellodgia by Caron, and Cassandra by Weil. I’m sure I’ll identify a few more bottles as I keep studying this photo. Can you name any?
Image: Paul T. Frankl, vanity in Penner House, Holmby Hills, California, 1938. Reproduced in Christopher Long, Paul T. Frankl and Modern American Design, 2007.
Last night the actress Christina Hendricks appeared with designer L’Wren Scott at a preview of Scott’s limited edition collection for Banana Republic. I’m ambivalent about Banana Republic (my last BR cardigan sweater pilled within one wearing!), and I don’t know much about L’Wren Scott (other than that she dates Mick Jagger and that her fragrance for Barneys was pretty good), and I really don’t write red carpet posts. On the other hand…Christina Hendricks!!!
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