GLAMOUR PHOTOGRAFY

. . . hello! after a busy & lovely weekend, a [very] late start here, and how are things? the new week is already filled with a million things, including still more sorting & organising [beribboned boxes of old photographs, long-lost love letters and beautifully written correspondence cards], and plotting & plan-making, meetings and appointments and telephone calls, but also, moments of leisure in all of the busy-ness, for catching up with an old friend, and lattes and mid-day lunch dates . . .

hope you had a beautiful weekend, and that your week is off to a perfect start, —roséline xo



{p.s.} also : a flurry of new posts from just before the weekend, which you [very likely] may have missed:

* runway inspiration : derek lam pre-fall 2012
* runway inspiration: rochas pre-fall 2012
* places : champagne afternoon tea at the dorchester


{images: a life worth eating // the paris hotel boutique via pinterest // a previous post // smitten with pretty via sketch 42}

There is something significantly special about vintage and antique luggage pieces. Unlike the compact pieces that are created out of convenience and necessity today: suitable for planes, trains, ships, and automobile travel—the type of luggage needed from years past is quite different.



For instance, baby strollers today are easy to clean and maintain, can carry a number of children at time, and can fold into a fraction of their size, not unlike an origami piece; whereas in the past, more scalable prams were standard, designed with large, more industrial strength metal parts, and were produced with fine materials—some even included beautiful paintings and special storage compartments, and were often decorative and treasured for many, many years.



The same is with luggage; today, we seek quite different conveniences and scales, and yet can appreciate and enjoy the beauty of pieces from a bygone era.



Proficiently and arduously, “constructed by hand from metal, timber, leather and brass, these trunks were highly sought after and favoured by royal families and international high society alike.”



Traveling in style was considered as important as where one would travel. It’s lovely to imagine the sorts of journeys these pieces went on—exotic trips to Africa, trains through Europe, new homes and lands, discovered . . .




[continue reading sarah's tips for purchasing vintage and antique travel cases below . . .] x


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. . . you know weekends are good when friday links become late-sunday ones, and sunday links are moved to monday . . . and this weekend was paris vogue and spanish wine, a late saturday night of dreams and plans and moonlight, an always leisurely sunday brunch and drinks on a sun-drenched terrace {first of the season!} . . . and, now monday, monday and it's good to see you again -- how are things?

wherever in the world you may be, hope you had an extravagantly lovely weekend and that your week is off to a perfect start, roséline xo

a f e w l o v e l y l i n k s
* the perfect intermingling of: modern & ornate
* patterns & textures: fall versus spring
* architecture: a castle in miami, complete with a moat
* style: are you a marilyn or a jackie?
* photography: chandeliers & lace
* details: in black & white
* spring hair inspiration: ponytails
* spring things: container gardening
* travel: norwegian architecture & nature
* all in a day's work: this chiffon blouse & these shoes
* travel: horses & geysers in iceland
* décor inspiration: a lacy curtain {via 79 ideas}
* a study: in fireworks

. . . there is a vintage sterling silver serviette holder on my desk {below}, that is used for favourite photographs, letters, invitations, and gold foil-lined envelopes; however with a change in season and a brand new month, aside from the overwhelming desire to throw open every french door and window, there are also thoughts of redoing, perhaps repainting, but most of all, reorganizing, and at this moment {besides the closets} it is the office, currently overflowing with letters, cards, bills, receipts and recent boarding passes . . . and the serviette holder, however lovely, can only hold so much, so perhaps a silver vintage toast rack {beautiful and practical} may be just the thing . . .


above, on my desk, sterling silver serviette holder


above, vintage toast rack, from etsy


above, ultra-luxe english sterling silver toast rack from 1938, ebay


above, silver plated toast rack from mothology


above, metal and below, silver plate, both florence & florence



. . . and if you ever find yourself roaming about the antique markerts early one saturday morning, in paris, or otherwise, a latte in hand a boyfriend in tow, you'll most likely find a wonderful array. . . and of course, for those quiet moments on weekday mornings, there is always a vast assortment online, from etsy, {here}, and ebay, {here} . . .


{images: top, scan by this is glamorous from domino magazine, 2 - iphone photography by this is glamorous; 3, 5 & 6 -- as listed; 4 - scan by this is glamorous from domino magazine, february 2008, photography by justin bernhaut}

. . . if you have been reading for a while, you will know about a certain and enduring love for chandeliers, and whether in a quaint café or a cozy british pub, an ultra modern living room or a château in the french countryside, things always seem to look a little better under the romantic glow of a chandelier, and this beautiful antique is pure and simple elegance . . .


{photography by patrick cline for lonny magazine}

. . . whether painted or gilded, empire, george iii, german, swedish or italian lyre-backed, have always had quite a love affair with chairs . . .

{p.s.} another beautiful chair & here as well, and more stunningly lovely spring green

{photography by sylvie becquet, with the exception of the last, photography by carolyn roehm; scanned by this is glamorous from a passion for interiors by carolyn roehm}

. . . at this moment, there is a bouquet of roses on the desk the very shade of dusky lilac as this mesmerisingly beautiful and utterly romantic carved and gilded chair . . .

{images: photography by sylvie becquet, scanned by this is glamorous from a passion for interiors by carolyn roehm}

. . . nearly impossible not to be utterly captivated by this perfectly tiny and devastatingly romantic victorian cottage in the catskills, all draped in netting and dusky white and overflowing with ruffly bed linens and silver tea services, antique mirrors and chandeliers, and limoges china patterned in tiny rosebuds -- an enchanting summery retreat for long and luxurious afternoons spent dreaming, dreaming to the soft sounds of a sunlit stream . . .

{p.s.} special thanks to lovely reader betsy for sending along the link xo








{images: trevor tondro for the new york times}