not the fun kind.

Stenciled pattern has added distinctive decoration to our homes since the beginning of our country. In this bedroom simple wall-stenciling patterns are a homey contrast to the elegant gold stenciling on the bedposts. Pattern and texture are combined in the woven turkey-red coverlet and the afghan.

Mirror, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, screenplay by Andrei Tarkovsky and Aleksandr Misharin, cinematography by Georgi Rerberg, and edit by Lyudmila Feyginova.

When I speak of poetry I am not thinking of it as a genre. Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality, said Tarkovsky. From the perspective of a filmmaker, Tarkovsky allures with his grasp for the art of cinema. Still, and more importantly so, from the stance of one who shares in this experience of human life, Tarkovsky allows us to connect with the heart of cinema through his portrayal of emotions and truth, in other words, what makes us human. In a Tarkovsky film, we face life.

Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates melancholy from happiness.

Traditional thatched cottages and their equally traditional planting and gardens.

You & i are Earth 1661

Earthenware plate excavated in London

Verner Panton ‘Wonderlamp’, model no. TYP H, c. 1970.