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Showing posts with label Valentine's Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Valentine's Day. Show all posts

have a heart

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one of the all time best torch songs- still best in its original sound- the one and only Cilla Black






HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY



Les couturières VUILLARD (1890)
Cilla Black here



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all you need is love

from YSL & Katy Kane at 1st dibs here

there is also a wonderful jewel of a book LOVE by Yves Saint Laurent if you can find a copy do get it-inside a collection of  Yves Saint Laurent's drawings of the holiday greeting he would send out to close friends and his best clients.


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Love's Lavender Sandal

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EROS
Love in Idleness
Sidney Harold Meteyard 

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Love's Lavender Wings

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 Hope comforting  Love in Bondage
Sidney Harold Meteyard


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for the Love of Lady Emily

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a frenzy of passionate love letters were sent to Lady Emily.
Ned was a promising architect but no match for the daughter of the Earl of Lytton.
Proposals were made.
The marriage forbidden.
Proposals were reconsidered.
Financial statements were submitted.
Love was accepted.
Lady Emily became the bride of Ned Lutyens.




Not surprising, Lutyens expressed his undying devotion to the Lady in architectural details.
"the Casket" was a gift from the heart to Lady Emily Lytton. Designed in Lutyens' distinctive classical style an olivine leather adorned with the Lady's initials held secret compartments for tokens of his affection.

The box held the hopes of and dreams of the young Ned and Emily:
a crucifix designed by Lutyens
a heart
an anchor
and finally
a small 4 inch square detailed drawing of' the little white house' the pair dreamed of building one day.

Edwin Landseer Lutyens, often referred to as Britain's greatest architect, married Lady Emily Lytton in 1897.
The marriage produced five children.
The intellectually frustrated Emily  found solace in Theosophy*.
Ned Lutyens went on to become The architect of his age, Sir Edwin Lutyens, working in the Arts and Crafts style and incorporating Classicism into his over 300 public spaces, country homes and monuments.

The 'little white house' the couple had dreamed of building never materialized.




*the doctrine of religious philosophy and metaphysics.

the human heart

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the artist vocation is to send light into the human heart. 
george sand








dress from Alexander McQueen's 2009 preFall Collection

can't buy me love

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from an Irish scrapbook-with many more treasures to behold
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