Art Nouveau Furniture

Christmas Star by Cathrine Langwagen

Art Nouveau Tattoo

Luscious Art Nouveau II by Jaguarwoman

Pure Temptation

Art Nouveau Lady

Weekend Reading - The Complete Claudine

For some reason, I'm not sure why, I've never seemed to get around to reading anything by Colette. So, I recently started reading Cl...

Sharing the LOVE

And what's not to love? Go over to Fashion's Most Wanted and share the love with Christina for Love Magazine

San Clemente, Modjeska, Dana Point Harbor

Here's another circa 1940 postcard from Tom Pulley ; this time showing Coast Highway (Route 101) in San Clemente . Click to enlarge and...

Mid-Summer Musings About Travel

Since it is mid-summer and I have this on my mind I thought that I would share with you this article from the WSJ A Hotel Executive on How t...

And speaking of Paul Gross --

And speaking of Paul Gross (which I was in my last post where I said my farewells to Canadian character actor Maury Chaykin), the man is bac...

Goodbye, Maury

If your only interest in movies is for hot bods and sexy action, you're probably going to say, "Maury who?" But if you appreci...

Orange, Carey Baughman, and Escape from L.A.

Today's image is a view up N. Glassell St. in Downtown Orange . It comes from a postcard in Tom Pulley 's collection that was postm...

LVMH - Why Is This Man Smiling?

I've always thought that we lived in a world with an oversupply of luxury goods and that in the event of a deep recession a strong corre...

Jewelry Biz- Stephen Webster Will Open 1st US Store on Rodeo Drive

 Jewellery brand Stephen Webster is opening a flagship US store on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. From Retail Jeweller The retail space desig...

Paris Fashion Week Spring 2010/2011 Trends

2011 Fall Winter Fashion Trends

For fall or winter seasons, colours those we put on could being as lively as possibles. Fall fashion trends, Sometimes though gray appears t...

Antique Four Pane Screen

This design was originally an antique four panel screen, but has been beautifully reproduced here.

Vintage Art Nouveau Lady

How to Wear Vintage Animal Brooches

A couple of days ago I wrote a post about blogger Jane Aldridge and her menagerie of vintage animal brooches.  It's one thing to wear a ...

Civil War, using cameras for research, Katella, etc

Another historic point of interest at Irvine Park is the Civil War cannon in front of the Spanish-American War monument on the lake's ...

Twisted Prep or How to Wear Your Hilfiger Duck Boots

Tommy Hilfiger's tailgating ad campaign is continuing to get play in the blogosphere, with  Look Muffy An Ad Campaign For Us ! at Habitu...

Irvine Park, Knott's, Huntington Center, and books

Here's an interior view of the 1914 boathouse at Irvine Park . You can see where the rowboat-shaped slips have been modified to fit the...

Christy Turlington by Steven Meisel and Karl Templar - Modern and Classic Indeed

If you haven't already picked up the latest edition of Italian Vogue...go out and spend $18 to buy it right now! The Christy Turlington ...

Ete by jillian2388 on DeviantArt

Enchanted Art Nouveau

Ophelia John William Waterhouse

Art Nouveau Lady With Floral Crown

Ancient Grecian Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau Poster

This stunning example of art nouveau is a beautiful wall cabinet! What makes it even better is that you can get a pattern for this design b...

Vintage Brooches - When Too Much Actually Is Too Much

Usually when I get dressed up I pile on the jewelry.  In fact when it comes to estate jewlery our office motto is "too much is never en...

Irvine Park, cemetery book, tourist traps & Googie

Here's a postcard from Tom Pulley 's collection, depicting Irvine Park (originally called Orange County Park ) in the early 1920s....