Fine Lines
Can I just rave a little about the illustrations gracing the pages of All the Time in the World? Let’s put it this way–months later I’m still obsessed. I love everything that Minka Sicklinger did to make the book shine….
Thanks to Vogue for including All the Time in the World among the gifts perfect for a “literary It Girl.” Megan O’Grady calls it “a sensualist’s miscellany of Gilded Age dinner dressing customs and Edwardian treasure hunts.” Among good company—check…
Gone Wilde
There is such a wealth of Oscar Wilde ephemera surrounding his 1882 tour across America out there. Where to begin? Two items recently sifted to the top of my files. I loved this newspaper clipping, printed that year: “Frightened at…
Monkeying Around
If I could have any clock ever made, I would probably choose this one—an organ pipe clock with a porcelain monkey orchestra—made by a French clockmaker and goldsmith in the mid-18th century and kept now at Paris’ Petit Palais. The…
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