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Chardin, Self Portrait with an Eyeshade_, 1775
Chardin lookalike, Guy Wolff
English pancheons from the collection of Guy Wolff
English salt glazed garden edgers and lipless terracotta
pots from the collection of Guy Wolff
Hot House Garden Pot by Guy Wolff
LIVING: Guy Wolff Pottery, Bantam, Connecticut.
photographed by Charles Cushman.
Throwing a googly in a Hemsby
in Hope and Glory._
REVIVED: The Hemsby, at Old Town,
for those who remember the 80s, or the
40s, or the 80s version of the 40s.
LIVING: The circus. Kodachromes
by Charles W. Cushman.
LIVING: Nabokov, via Pablo Delkán, of Menorca.
_The Ypres Salient at Night_ + _The Mule Track_
by Paul Nash (an inspiration for the character of
Paul Tarrant in _Tobys Room_ by Pat Barker).
My Work Room_ + _View From the Old British _
_Trenches _by William Sir Orpen. Both going on
the cover of _Tobys Room_ by Pat Barker.
LIVING: Tiles in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.
Photographs by Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii
(taken c. 1900) at the Library of Congress.
LIVING: Steele Canvas Basket Co.,
established 1921, in Massachusetts.
Available with a twist, at J. Crew.
LIVING: Richard III.
Nothing to add here
A willow boot tree is more practical than
wood when the boot is wet
Time to revive the Farve-chic leather gaiter
that keeps out the cold
Deer bones for polishing the boot
after it has been polished
TROTTING ON: Horace Batten boots.
Outtakes from a visit to Northamptonshire
work shed as reported in Gardenista.
Photographs by Kendra Wilson.
LIVING: _Irish Folk Furniture_, by Tony Donahue.
Winner for Best Animation at Sundance.
EXCTINCT: The Third Avenue El, demolished in 1955.
Photographs by Esther Bubley, 1951.
LIVING: The pancheon. A Hardy-esque red clay vessel
once commonly used for kneading dough, collecting
cream and holding various and sundries.
Available at Barrington Pottery and Butter Wynd Pottery.
RIP: Dave Brubeck, 1920-2012.
LIVING: Pendleton, begun as a mill in Oregon
which traded blankets with Native Americans.
Photographs by Edward S. Curtis, c. 1900.
BACK THEN: Instructor explaining the
operation of a parachute to student pilots,
Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Texas.
Photographs by Arthur Rothstein, 1946.
LIVING: Willow weaving, in Northants.
Bicycle basket with contrasting willow
available at Ancient Industries UK.
