wing and a prayer

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 detail of Cavallini's angel

I am utterly inspired right now by the new blog  COLETTE van den Thillart and Nicky Haslam are writing.  A recent COLETTE entry- A WING AND A PRAYER started me thinking.
Now-You may say, Here We Go.
Well Yes.
come along.

photograph NH Designs

Collette talks about a recent shop acquisition and the co-opting of classic symbolism into massively mass production-she puts it this way concerning : "Wings, like skulls, have become by and large cheap clichéd symbols of our time" CvdT This console, acquired by Nicholas Haslam Designs- wings and all- Is 18th century.

photograph NH Designs

This one- or "pair" as it were- Is the exception- and isn't there an exception to every cliched cliche?
So there-
The Wings.
The prayer would be- to host on high-that it was Mine. No, it was not to be. It was scooped up by lofty Haslam clients immediately.

Along with the Wings everywhere, Skulls must be dealt with. What does it all mean? Wings? Skulls? The motifs are ever present in Momento Mori imagery from centuries past telling the earth bound "Remember your mortality."
Embraced in our Youth obsessed world today-unusally enough- it is easy to dismiss them as Trend. Fashion. They will be Out and the next big thing is In.
I do have a little skull here and there.
I embrace.
I would definitely have this-

I spotted this Delfina Delettrez  ring  about 2 years ago.

So don't shy away from a gorgeous skull, it has been knocking about since-

 Pompeii

 &

Sophocles

“Let every man in mankind’s frailty

Consider his last day; and let none

Presume on his good fortune until he find

Life, at his death, a memory without pain.”

Sophocles

& so it is with Wings,

 Pompeii

&

yes, snakes- (the next "big" thing.)

Pompeii

Pompeii had it all- everything, it started there & never stopped.

we grasp at something new, undiscovered.

it had all been done -B.C.E

& I mean everything darlings, 

Pompeii.

& I'm not talking about jewelry -

but they had that too-

Pompeii

I would have this in an instant & I would wear it with my
Delettrez skull.

Victorian gold and diamond snake bracelet at 1st dibs 

Are you on Trend or are you already into snakes?

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thanks, and thanks.

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"I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks."

-Shakespeare.

 to Nicky Haslam for naming little augury as one of his favourite blogs of the moment on the Life.Style.etc website of the UK magazine Livingetc. HERE.

&  another current favourite he names is Amanda Eliasch’s RAT TAILS. I checked it out and I can see why, can not wait to subscribe there

when asked in the lifestyle.etc interview:

What can we expect from your blog?

he answers:

The unexpected, the unsuspected, the unforgotten, the unexplained, the chic, the charming, and the cool.  

 this composition of benches by Haslam encapsulates all that

 image from his SHEER ELEGANCE book

&  this is why I am loving his own, written  by  NH and NH Designs Creative Director Colette van den Thillart.
Here is their OWN

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