A World War I poster from the U.S. Food Administration by F.G. Cooper.
I would like to hang it in my kitchen.
Via Wall Blank, $24.
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Red Balloon
Please tell me you’ve seen The Red Balloon? It’s a charming short film that follows a little boy across Paris who is following a red balloon. This print is a charming nod to the spirit of the film. And yes, I’m on a balloon kick.
Monsieur III via The Shiny Squirrel, $30.
This ring is one of the more unique and cute versions of the large flower ring I’ve seen and comes from the same designer as the Plaid Pintuck Dress.
Via Spool No. 72, $24.
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Weekend Ride
If I could do anything this weekend, it would be to go on a hot-air balloon ride. And I’m not sure there is anything as iconic as the hot air balloon to represent pure, fanciful imagination… ah. Happy Weekend, everyone!
More photos from Celine via A Cup of Joe.
For whatever reason, the art of writing seems more fully expressed when published via a typewriter or your own hand. Words seem especially poignant. Like when Mick Jagger tells Andy Warhol, “He will probably look nervous and say ‘Hurry up’ but take little notice.”
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Japanese Poster 1
This print is by far one of my favorites right now and in fact, I bought it and it now hangs above my laptop at home. Artist Valero Doval is based in London and has a devastatingly interesting portfolio. I’m loving some of his newer work too – see Drawers, IncorporealEnergy and HiddenCompositions – and would buy them in an instant if only they were on sale.
Japanese Poster 1 via inPRNT, $40.
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The Burning “T”
Normally I don’t go for things that are ridden with deeper, darker associations, but set designer Gary Card’s Burning T was just too powerful to pass up. Created for New York Time’s Tmagazine, Card describes his work as “a burning effigy in a dramatic countryside setting” which “sounded like too much fun not to do.” Other inspirations came from The Wicker Man, a 1973 English cult horror film that features pagan ritual and is a film I will probably never, ever see.
“We lit it with a blowtorch,” Card continues, “and then ran for our lives.”
The result is one of the best sculptural pieces I’ve seen.
Via The Moment.
Just imagine these wool shorts with tights for winter. The designer “eschews the flashy and fleeting in favor of re-worked timeless basics, and old-fashioned tailoring.”
Steven Alan Pip Wool Short via Frances May, $178.
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog
This was a bestseller in France originally and is now a bestseller here as well. It’s not the type of book that you sit on the edge of your seat with, but rather that you pick up and savor slowly.
Renee is a cultured concierge who mulls over great philosophers and acts like she doesn’t, while Paloma is a bourgeois teenager who has decided to commit suicide on her thirteenth birthday. The two characters are living in the same building, but never interact until mid-way through the book when an event pulls them together. And when that happens, of course, you do start to sit on the edge of your seat, ever so slightly.
, $9.
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Yellow Dress
I like when the light in a photograph helps your other senses experience the scene. Like the light here makes me think of an evening towards the end of summer, with a light breeze, and the smell in the air that only comes about when the seasons are on the cusp.
And the woman in the yellow dress is just fun.
By Joseph Holmes via 20×200, $20.