The St. Andrew Knot

The Drawing Room of Stanway House, Cotswald, Gloucestershire, England… with its two stunnining Chinese Chippendale daybeds c1760 facing each other… 

🪩How the waltz and nineteenth-century protocol changed interior design in the Palaces of Europe - Yes, you read that right. Since the beginning of the 19th century, the palatine traditions of the Ancien Régime have been changing and transforming. Along with them, musical characteristics did too, passing from the minuet to the waltz in a matter of a few decades. To this concept we must add fashion, which after the Napoleonic period, began to innovate with large and voluminous dresses. 🙏🏼What was the result? Banquets and parties in European royal courts required larger rooms. 🌿A beautiful example of this transformation was the gala dining room of the Royal Palace in Madrid, which you can visit in its present museum. 📌In 1885 this great hall was finished following the design of José Segundo de Lema. It was conceived for receptions, balls, dinners and banquets. With the union of 3 rooms of the former Queen’s apartment, the Royal Palace of Madrid became fashionable with an eclectic decoration and a size worthy to receive kings, queens and foreign dignitaries. 👑To this day it has been used on countless occasions, did you know that? - 💕As always, thank you to @patrimnacional for receiving me | by jepsolell

Valentino Fall/Winter 2013-2014.

Oxford, England (1982) by alh1

@deborabrosa

Both of Molly’s shots from this photoshoot are spectacular! Her pose with the male model is just insane; I love the curve of her body, the pointed toe, and her wistful gaze off to the side, almost like she’s having second thoughts about the relationship. Her more solo oriented shot is probably my favorite in her portfolio. Her choice to stand on the rock makes her look incredibly tall and allows for the dress to be shown to it’s fullest extent, and her face is extremely beautiful. She looks so powerful and elegant. This could easily be a double page feature in Vogue Italia!

Piero Tosi and Silvana Mangano on set of Luchino Visconti’s La morte a Venezia, Lido of Venice, Italy.

📍Colonnade de la Naumachie

GQ UK December 2014 - Simon van Meervenne photographed by Sean Thomas

Appartements Napoléon III, Musée du Louvre, Paris (by alicefound).

Infanta Isabel of Spain, known as ‘La Chata’. Photographed by Fernando Debas, c.1895.

Belle Epoque Emerald and Diamond Tiara

lorenzo zurzolo by brett llyod for vman, spring/summer 2020

‘Beauty and the Beast‘, photographed by Tim Walker for Vogue Italia, December 2015.

📸: Fred Romero [Wikimedia]

Petit Trianon | abbygracephoto

by LlNDSEY TRAN