Anthropologie has come to Ottawa! (More to come on that thrilling note.) My haul from the new store included 6 lovely knobs and Rifle Paper Co.'s beautifully illustrated Little Women novel!
Sunday, August 14, 2016
Thursday, August 11, 2016
Recent Thrift: Delft Blue Tin
This appears to have been a cookie tin. The bottom is stamped: Dirk Eden--Fabrikation feiner Teegebäcke--Jever, Friesland. I love the painterly scene and the scalloped band around the bottom and lid.
Tuesday, August 09, 2016
Saturday, August 06, 2016
Monday, August 01, 2016
An American in Paris
An American in Paris is a fun musical full of exuberant song and dance set to an exclusively Gershwin score. It stars the dynamic dancer, singer, actor, and choreographer Gene Kelly alongside impressively flexible Leslie Caron, who has a contagious ear-to-ear smile.
The 17 minute ballet at the end of the film is the real stunner, as it brings to life the art of Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, Renoir, Utrillo, Rousseau, and Dufy in rhythm and vivacious sets and costumes.
This storefront is so delightfully masculine, as was Gene Kelly's style of dance.
Notice all the vibrant stripes used against the simple leaf shapes.
Gene Kelly even transforms into Toulouse-Lautrec's Chocolat in a hilariously wiggly dance!
It is a riot of colour.
Magnifique!
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