'I would not exceed the limits of expense that I have always set myself. Let us do everything properly and well, mais pas trop.'- Edwin Lascelles to Robert Adam, c. 1765.When Edwin… Read More
Nostell Priory was designed in the fashionable Palladian style, intended to be a symbol of the owner’s wealth and fashionable taste. It was almost completely furnished by Chippendale… Read More
Thomas Chippendale (1718 – 1779) was a London cabinet-maker and furniture designer in the mid-Georgian, English Rocco, and Neoclassical styles. In 17… Read More
On Friday we went to see – oh! the palace of palaces! and yet a palace sans crown, sans coronet – but such expense! such taste! such profusion! ... The old house I have… Read More
Celebrate
– Fierce Fiction by William Cass –
Marcia chose the little photography shop in North Park because one of her work colleagues had recommended it. She’d called the… Read More
How often do you get to go to a place? It could be business or maybe a holiday gate away. I love the idea of just going to a new land and exploring all the great things that they have to of… Read More
What a day as the inevitable happened.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
He was over 15 years old and had lived a charmed life for a cat. Although he never had offspring, he had a fam… Read More
A NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) resupply spacecraft named in honour of late astronaut Kalpana Chawla has been launched to the International Space Station (ISS). The sp… Read More
Mindfulness practices are acquiring appeal as well as show up to be fairly stylish these days. Possibly it is since we understand, as well as have experienced, that there is incredi… Read More