heir to all

What I spill in a dream
runs under my door,
ahead of my arrival
and the year's wide round,

to meet me in the color of hills
at dawn, or else collected
in a flower's name
I trace with my finger
in a book. Proving

only this: Listening is the ground
below my sleep,
where decision is born, and

whoever's heard the title
autumn knows him by
is heir to all those
unfurnished rooms inside the roses.

From Book of My Nights, by Li-Young Lee

snuggle

The lovely Elizabeth has just added these perfect little sweaters to her knitwear line Primoeza. I love everything about them!

Available for pre-order here.

swimming in my own pool

According to French philosopher René Descartes (1596-1650), the universe operated as a continuously running machine which God had set in motion. Since he rejected Newton's theory of gravity and idea of a vacuum in space, Descartes argued that instead the universe was composed of a 'subtle matter' he named 'plenum,' which swirled in vortices like whirlpools and actually moved the planets by contact. Here, these vortices carry the planets around the Sun.

via World Treasures of the Library Congress

christian hölscher

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marta miguel martínez-soria

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lucy hutchings

Concrete colors + red rings + bright nylon

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pull it together

Kiel Mead and Sarah Boatright's table that has a crack sewn together with a tennis racket string

via Sight Unseen

medusa

Emma Cook cocoon dress at ASOS


Emma Cook cardigan at Matches


Emma Cook Abbie Dress at Opening Ceremony

satomi kawai

I am fully frilled, brooch, 2009

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judging a book by its cover

La Canne de Jaspe, Pierre Legrain, 1925


Carmen, Rose Adler, 1928


Trois Contes Cruels, Rose Adler, 1928


Quelques fables de la Fontaine, Pierre Legrain, 1928


Lediadé me de Flore, Pierre Legrain, 1925

Book bindings from the Art Deco period via Grabink

citrine clutching

Anntian pillows

freeling

Made by Karl Fritsch in New Zealand

via Gallery Funaki

twilight

Rising and shining

subtlety

My favorite scene of Tilda Swinton as Emma Recchi in I Am Love.

The way the bracelet curves and ends around her wrist and how it is partially obscured by her sheer sleeve is aesthetic perfection and also a very telling analogy for the character.

It also made me realize that I've stopped wearing my silver bracelets. So I wore some today and wow, how I've missed the way they sound when they clatter against each other. I'm definitely no Emma Recchi.