If you are responsible for a dog...

Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside 3rd


read this about nail bed tumors. It may not be easy, but forewarned is forearmed.



Now playing: Shane Mack - More Than This

The lady in the picture

In 1934, Bobsy Goodspeed, seated beneath a portrait of her by Bernard Boutet de Monvel, relaxes at her lush Lincoln Park apartment; the architect David Adler designed the space.


Portrait of a Lady

By Geoffrey Johnson

Between the world wars, a beautiful, artistic woman named Bobsy Goodspeed stood at the heart of Chicago's social and cultural scenes. Now, prompted by a salacious if glancing remark in a recent book, this forgotten woman re-emerges and opens the door on a vanished era peopled by painters and pianists, plutocrats and politicians—and an irresistible force named Gertrude Stein


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The lost language of crones

Those humble and honest objects that WASPy old dears pressed into service with great aplomb.



Terracotta pots and saucers instead of cachepot.



Wicker baskets, used for everything from bread to wastepaper.




A colourful 19th century American hooked rug with a geometric design.


A cushion faced with a floral needlepoint panel.


Bright, purposeful handiwork pieces: hooked rugs, needlepoint (in all its mutations), patchwork quilts, etc.
Both the cushion and the hooked rug are from Sybil Colefax & John Fowler Antiques.



Tole ware, whether decorated or plain, fashioned into absolutely anything useful.



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Provenance

Copper vessels once the property of the late Ingmar Bergman, whose estate was auctioned by Bukowskis in September.




Ingmar Bergman photographed by Irving Penn, 1964



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Fall and switch

Sophia Loren




Princess Margaret




Allegra Caracciolo di Castagneto


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