Les Eyquems, France, September 1925, photographer unknown, via Penny on flickr (used by permission).
There’s a quartier of Les Eyquems in the commune of Mérignac in southwestern France, just west of the city of Bordeaux. There’s also a Chateau Les Eyquems (vineyard) north of Bordeaux.
“A couple watching the world go by from their flat on York Street, Dublin,” 1954, via National Library of Ireland (cropped slightly by me.)
The photo was taken by Elinor O’ Brien Wiltshire or her husband Reginald Wiltshire, owners of The Green Studios Ltd., Dublin.
Enclosed porch, location unknown, ca. 1900 – ca. 1920s, by Bain News Service, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Nice. . . chintz, wicker, books, and potted geraniums — and I love that swing. There are striped awnings outside over the windows.
. . . You’re bunkered in your
Aerie, I’m perched in mine. . .
We’re content, but fall short of the Divine.
Still, it’s embarrassing, this happiness—
Who’s satisfied simply with what’s good for us
When has the ordinary ever been news?— Rita Dove, from “Cozy Apologia“
A little Monday morning prettiness. . .
The walk to the house from the flower garden at “Thornewood,” Lakewood, Washington, 1923, a hand-colored glass lantern slide by Frances Benjamin Johnston, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
The house was built between 1909 and 1911 for Chester and Anna Thorne — constructed partly from a 400-year-old Elizabethan manor house, which Chester purchased in England and had dismantled and shipped to Lakewood.
Thornewood’s over 30 acres of formal “English” gardens were designed by James Frederick Dawson and John Charles Olmsted of Olmsted Brothers from 1908 to 1913. They were originally cared for by 28 gardeners.
In 1926, House Beautiful magazine named Thornewood one of the five most beautiful formal gardens in America. In 1929, the Garden Club of America held its national convention there.
Today, the property still exists as the Thornewood Castle Inn and Gardens.
It is magnificent. It is what God would have done if he had the money.
— [of a perfectly groomed estate] Noel Coward
Stongfjorden, Norway, ca. 1910, by Paul Stang, via Fylkesarkivet i (County Archives of) Sogn og Fjordane Commons on flickr.
I love the striped curtains — and those here.
enclos*ure 