Happy Sunday! Here's this week's serving of the freshest Breakfast Links, a selection of noteworthy tidbits gathered from other blogs, web sites, news stories, and other curiosities that we've discovered wandering around the Twitterverse:
• We've gone all hearts-and-flowers looking at the beautiful vintage Valentine’s Day cards from the collection of the Beamish Museum: http://bit.ly/h9zQtc
• Astonishing transformation of 17th c Spitalfields, London, worker's house: http://bit.ly/hyNxaI
• This year's Oscar-worthy film costumes on display in LA, from The King’s Speech to Alice in Wonderland: http://bit.ly/gCNPrf
• Talk about Anglo-American history! This week in 1964,The Beatles debut on Ed Sullivan show: http://t.co/zJ5VnpA via @youtube
• A niche subject I admit, but for anyone interested: “A world of sallats:17th Century salads”: http://bit.ly/hgRxAH
• Hugh Thomson, the 19th c. illustrator of Jane Austen's six novels: http://t.co/q1Q
• London Lives 1690-1800, Searchable database of Londoners: http://www.londonlives.org/index.jsp
• For Gilded Age Millionaires, c. 1900: a nice "little" summer place in Maine w/ 35 rooms & battling footmen: http://bit.ly/epVRxr
• The favorite color for Georgian gardens: “invisible green”: http://bit.ly/dmvhcU
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6 comments:
I haven't made it through all the links yet, that usually takes me the better part of the day. But one thing I've noticed and it hit me again with 10 Downing; I often look at houses for sale in London, Edinburgh and the surrounding areas. I'm a curious thing ;o) I've notice the majority of houses and things that I see are furnished on a more modern vein as if they're trying to get away from their design traditions. Does that make sense? Probably not, I'm not explaining it well. And I don't know why it makes such an impression. Maybe it's my romantic idea of the way things *should* be.
I'm stopped cold at the Victorian Valentines! What a beautiful collection. I think I'll send some of these to my friends this year.
Happy Valentines Day to you ladies, too.
Thank you so very much for providing all of these interesting links I will sure check out all of them. Blessings.
Thank you for all these wonderful links. I loved the article about the Spitalfields house. Have you ever heard of the late Dennis Severs' house in Spitalfields: http://www.dennissevershouse.co.uk/
I have long wanted to vist; seems like an interesting and unique encounter with the past; historical performance art!
I have just discovered your blog - ! Love it. Who painted the picture on this entry? Thanks.
Theo, I can understand why the modern furnishings may seem somewhat jarring in older buildings - but I'm guessing that because these are buildings and houses that are in use rather simply as museums, the owners choose to go with more functional comfortable pieces rather than antiques.
Maria L, I have seen the Severs house on-line - it looks fascinating, doesn't it? What a project! I'd love to visit it someday.
Linda, the painting is "At Breakfast", by Laurits Andersen Ring, 1898. Loretta found it, and we think it perfectly captures the feel of a lazy Sunday morning with something interesting to read.
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