Trolley dolly

A French two tier pierced metal trolley by Mathieu Mategot, 1956. Dimensions, H:68.5cm W:66cm D:66 cm.
A snip at £2200.


1. trolley dolly -
An often over-painted but nonetheless glamourous and sexy cabin crew member on a commercial airline, so-called because they offer drinks and other refreshments from a trolley pushed down the centre aisle.


Pam Ann - Cabin Service


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Funny because it's true

Louis C.K. on Late Night with Conan O'Brien.

We live in an amazing, amazing world, and it’s wasted on the crappiest generation of spoiled idiots. - Louis C.K.

Found via The Errant Aesthete, Nobody's Happy.


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Come dancing

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A little ditty, not for the faint-hearted

Bitch, I Stole Your Purse by Wendy Ho

When pop artists aren't pop artists

Hey House of Beauty and Culture,

I came across your site while looking for sites who feature
Pop artists. Your site seems to be just what I was looking for.

The opening of this email caught my attention. Unfortunately, I was not thinking in today's vernacular. I was thinking more along the lines of Lichtenstein and Johns.


Drowning Girl by Roy Lichtenstein


Flag by Jasper Johns
Encaustic, oil and collage on fabric mounted on plywood,1954-55

Sara at Ariel Publicity's Cyber PR meant something entirely different. Yet, still interesting and fresh.

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More ways to waste time...

but in reality it is anything but a waste.

The David Weissman Collection
At long last, three of David Weissman's short films are available on DVD.


976 is a clever and engaging short spoof on phone sex, the style of 1990s 976 ads in light of AIDS, and one very creative alternative to the standard phone sex ad..."If you're tired of talking dirty and just want to talk dirt," then 976 will fill your every need.


Beauties Without a Cause, four lawless drag queens prepare for a night of light crime. A delirious moral comedy with compelling hairdos and an excitable soundtrack.

A frenzy of a film. Like all great American cinema, it's about our country's mythology: youth, speed, peroxide blondes and a car crash. - John Karr, Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco



Song From an Angel is a poignant film about the final performance of Rodney Price, a popular San Francisco actor and dancer who, rail thin and seated in a wheelchair, bravely sings a jaunty tune about his own mortality--and even tap dances sitting down--a mere two weeks before his death from AIDS. Weissman's film captures the courage, honesty and humor that made Price a consummate performer even on the eve of his death.

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My Dears,

El Gordo Single Tassel

Evidently, we are meant to be having a big tassel debate. Fascinating.
So, let's have at it. I say yes. What do you say?

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Attention Seattle

Miss Coco Peru is coming your way.

Re-bar
1114 Howell St.
Seattle, WA 98101
(206) 233-9873

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Tell the truth and shame the devil

Still think that ebay "find" and punch of colour are a good idea? Think again.


James Lileks's take on the hideous, Interior Desecrations: Hideous Homes from the Horrible '70s




Welcome back to Interior Desecrations, a brutal examination of the unlovely, unattractive, unlivable and unforgivable homes of the 1970s. All eras have some bad taste, of course – but it took the 70s to make bad taste triumphant and universal. It took the 70s to convince everyone to stick foil wallpaper on the wall, paint the bathtub purple, smother the floors in shag so deep it tickled the tops of your ankles, and hang art that managed to clash with everything, including itself. I mean, look at this picture – what is that? A dissected Rubiks’s Cube attempts to threaten a potted plant and his child, I guess.




Here we see the problem that bedevils most urban dwellers: what can I do to make my unbearably claustrophobic room seem even smaller? Even with the gigantic empty-staring 17th century moonhead there still seems to be a certain airy quality to the place.

I know! I can paint the window!


Sweet smokin’ Judas, what were they thinking?

More tales of Portobello Road

I love it when it rains on a Saturday. It always seems to keep the casual, and trifling, visitor away. Unfortunately by early afternoon it had cleared.

There I was chatting away to Hills, a tall drink of water who always attracts the attention of men, when a man turned to her and asked, Are these your things?
Hills shook her head and pointed to me, and I replied,
She's not that lucky.
To which she and I chuckled. He didn't get it. Men who dress and look like that seldom do. He could have been the forty-something poster boy for Stuff White People Like.

How much is the sawfish blade?



I explained that it was a collection and told him the price. To which he exclaimed, Oh my goodness!

How much is the small bird?



Skipping any explanation, I told him the price. Again he replied, Oh my goodness!

All I could do was smile. Well, smile and bite my tongue.
Aside from hearing myself telling him to fuck off amongst a slew of other things, I could also hear Mae West intoning, Goodness has nothing to do with it.

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Doc Martin says

- you unctuous platitudinous eunuch! Ooh, I can hardly wait for the appropriate moment to spit that one out.
For those who don't know, Doc Martin is a wonderful television show that is a spin off of the movie Saving Grace.

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Confucius say, a picture is worth a thousand words

I ask you, is nothing sacred? First Gwyneth on the cover of House & Garden, now this.
Ugly Betty is one of the few shows I look forward to, and now they have gone and done this. Shame on them! I haven't even seen the episode yet (we are a week behind) and I am already indignant at the thought of it.





Why use a thousand when three will do.



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It is probably just me

but I think, that Gwyneth, she just might be a bit of a Jonah.
RIP House & Garden.


I was just reminded by the lovely PM that Kathy Griffin does a hilarious bit about Gwyneth and Stella McCartney in her Allegedly show.

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