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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Lily Donaldson by David Slijper for Harper's Bazaar UK. Image via Visual Optimism.
Have a lovely weekend. xx Pris
Lily Donaldson by David Bellemere for Porter #10. Image via Visual Optimism.
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This weekend the island is filled with saxophones, trumpets and an amazing array of artists, composers and performers. We'll be dancing the night away (not in heels I might add) to the tunes of Emeli Sande, John Legend, Gregory Porter, Enrique Iglesias and many more at the 6th edition of the Curacao North Sea Jazz Festival.
Image via Visual Optimism. Ophelie Guillermand by Nagi Sakai
Katryn Kruger by Matthew Sprout for Russh. Image via Visual Optimism.
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Image via Visual Optimism. Elisabeth Erm by Olivia Frolich for Costume Norway.
A stunning editorial by Vincent Peters fro UK Harper's Bazaar with Maryna Linchuk. For more of this go to Visual Optimism or {this is glamorous}.
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Love this.
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While living in Amsterdam I would love the look of magnolia branches in my tiny apartment. I would walk from the market, somehow carrying the branches and groceries over the canal bridges to my home. Magnolia branches bring Spring inside. So lovely.
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“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
“We are the dreamers of dreams”
Image via here. Flowers via Maison des Fleurs in Paris.
Every month or so I send notes, short letters and cards - handwritten - to a handful of family and friends around the world. I love the concept of the postal mail. How a simple letter will need to pass through many hands to reach its final destination; a small 'army' of helpers to convey a lovely message.
Whenever we are in New York or London or Hamburg or Venice (and quite a few other places) we spend hours in stationary shops, exploring the endless options of printed or letterpress designs. The creativity is inspiring. The inspiration is almost overwhelming and we leave each boutique feeling happy with a card (or ten) that will hopefully bring a smile to its recipient.
By Bespoke Letterpress via their Pinterest board.
“E-mails are good. But parcels and post are better.”
Letterpress cards are my favorites. Their texture, the process of producing them, the vintage experience they bring along; it is a marvel. I recently 'discovered' a wonderful letterpress in Australia (not exactly around the corner, but luckily they ship to Curacao as well). Have a look at Bespoke Letterpress when you have a chance.
By Bespoke Letterpress via their Pinterest board.
““How wonderful it is to be able to write someone a letter! To feel like conveying your thoughts to a person, to sit at your desk and pick up a pen, to put your thoughts into words like this is truly marvelous.” ”
By Bespoke Letterpress via their Pinterest board.
“Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment”
“Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication ”
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Have a lovely week. Enjoy the details.
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“Diptyque scours the globe in search of sensory treasures, gathering together specimens from the world’s finest gardens, from citrus and arid plants from the Mediterranean as well as the wooded and lush regions of the Asia Minor, blending botany and artistic creation in a perfumed, poetic alchemy.”
“Live less out of habit and more out of intent”
Yesterday I had dinner with two lovely ladies who dream of going to Paris. It inevtibably has me dreaming of the city of lights today. And thus, a few lovely images to start the weekend.
xx Pris
Photographs by Alasdair McLellan, of Edie Campbell. Image via the beautiful Dustjacket Attic.
“A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life”
Hotel Henriette in Paris. Image via here.
“Hotel Henriette resides on the Left Bank — a quiet cobblestone street on the quaintly-named rue des Gobelins”
The Dani's Rose Boutique at Hotel Costes. Image via here.
“I have never considered Roses Costes as an ordinary boutique. I prefer to define it as a treasure chest, a box where dreams can be touched and chosen.”
Love this.
Love the marble.
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