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Sep. 4th, 2009 02:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lapsedmodernistI was taking some photos of my bedroom renovations (I painted, hung up a different light fixture, put up a mirror and some new framed photos, and different curtains), and ended up taking snapshots of a few details from around the house, so I figured I'd show y'all little corners of my little home universe, stitched together from thrifstore and fleamarket finds, and random treasures picked up around the world.
this is the gilded top of a large purple mirror that looks like something out a theater dressing room I picked up during a trip to a large second-hand store housed in a farm in the middle of a field, run by recovering addicts, as a way for them to provide for themselves. The thing you see reflected is a fairy lamp, all art nouveau curves and twists of copper wire and glass balls fo different colors:
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theophile took of a statue of Pan and one of his minions in a labyrinth in Prague some years ago. I wove some branches that I picked up in the woods in Norway this summer into the spirals and twists of the lamp.
here is the lamp at work. Although it's a Russian superstition that you shouldn't open an umbrella indoors, I like having this faux-Victorian cloth umbrella hanging over my regal armchair in my study. the Buddhist prayer flags are, I think, from a flea market in Berlin.
that is my Sandman collage, from a postcard set I got...I don't even know how long ago. I definitely had it when I lived at 99 Montrose, so at least 6 years ago...but I don't remember buying them or being gifted them--perhaps they just appeared in my suitcase one day en route to or from somewhere. In any case, in this abode I cut them up and glued them into a collage in this old frame that used to house a mirror.
I painted the bedroom this color blue. The photo is of a patch of the street right outsidekhalinche's old place in East London.
more Norwegian wood in a thrifstore vase...you can kind of see at the very edge of the curtain that it's purple
a key in an old frame...to where?
What else?theophile brought back a book I've been wanting to read for me, "Manhattan Memoir"--Mary Cantwell's three-book autobiography, of growing up in a small New England town, and then her young adulthood and adult life in New York in the fifties and sixties. So good! I also now have "The Scar"--the second book set in China Mieville's "Perdido Street Station" universe, so that's next on the list. At the recommendation of some of you I have been watching "Swingtown" which is wonderful, I watched the first episode of "United States of Tara" and will probably watch more...The school year has started, new student names and faces to memorize, I am in a new office, this one in the main faculty building, at the end of a little semi-hidden corridor, I share it with my friends--much better than my previous office! The new bedroom decor lends itself to vivid dreams, I think, and I am still determined to make sangria before fall officially sets in. Fionn is basically over his jet-lag, it is sunny and windy, and I was going to go to a party tonight, but I think I will skip it as I feel like I am coming down with something. My father is here for the weekend, which means built-in babysitting, which means theophile and I might go see "Inglorious Bastards." This has been brought to you by my river of consciousness. That is all.
this is the gilded top of a large purple mirror that looks like something out a theater dressing room I picked up during a trip to a large second-hand store housed in a farm in the middle of a field, run by recovering addicts, as a way for them to provide for themselves. The thing you see reflected is a fairy lamp, all art nouveau curves and twists of copper wire and glass balls fo different colors:
The picture in the background is an infrared photo
theophile took of a statue of Pan and one of his minions in a labyrinth in Prague some years ago. I wove some branches that I picked up in the woods in Norway this summer into the spirals and twists of the lamp.here is the lamp at work. Although it's a Russian superstition that you shouldn't open an umbrella indoors, I like having this faux-Victorian cloth umbrella hanging over my regal armchair in my study. the Buddhist prayer flags are, I think, from a flea market in Berlin.
that is my Sandman collage, from a postcard set I got...I don't even know how long ago. I definitely had it when I lived at 99 Montrose, so at least 6 years ago...but I don't remember buying them or being gifted them--perhaps they just appeared in my suitcase one day en route to or from somewhere. In any case, in this abode I cut them up and glued them into a collage in this old frame that used to house a mirror.
I painted the bedroom this color blue. The photo is of a patch of the street right outside
khalinche's old place in East London.more Norwegian wood in a thrifstore vase...you can kind of see at the very edge of the curtain that it's purple
a key in an old frame...to where?
What else?
theophile brought back a book I've been wanting to read for me, "Manhattan Memoir"--Mary Cantwell's three-book autobiography, of growing up in a small New England town, and then her young adulthood and adult life in New York in the fifties and sixties. So good! I also now have "The Scar"--the second book set in China Mieville's "Perdido Street Station" universe, so that's next on the list. At the recommendation of some of you I have been watching "Swingtown" which is wonderful, I watched the first episode of "United States of Tara" and will probably watch more...The school year has started, new student names and faces to memorize, I am in a new office, this one in the main faculty building, at the end of a little semi-hidden corridor, I share it with my friends--much better than my previous office! The new bedroom decor lends itself to vivid dreams, I think, and I am still determined to make sangria before fall officially sets in. Fionn is basically over his jet-lag, it is sunny and windy, and I was going to go to a party tonight, but I think I will skip it as I feel like I am coming down with something. My father is here for the weekend, which means built-in babysitting, which means theophile and I might go see "Inglorious Bastards." This has been brought to you by my river of consciousness. That is all.
