Collage - Journal 1932...

Collage - Journal 1932...

Sunday, December 25, 2011

Our Tastes are Traditional, Old and Simple...

Année 1811

You asked me the other day for some advise on rare bottles - my knowledge is limited but may I suggest the exceptional quality of year 1811 ...

Année 1811


Année 1840


Année 1895


And if you are a connoisseur - 1928 and 1948 Hine Grande Champagne Vintage Cognac for those special evenings.


and why not - a bottle of Laphroaig - Année 1887
and for Port a bottle of Tuke Holdsworth 1912 or 1920...

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Timeless Furniture - Christmas Wish list for your "Travellers Nest"...


Folding Chair in Oiled Walnut...

If you like a contemporary take on Campaign Furniture - Wood/Leather/Canvas - Pure understated Elegance and Simplicity -  Get it from Richard Wrightman...Brilliant - we all are in need of portable furniture.

Folding Chair for your travels

Richard Wrightman’s campaign inspired furniture- simplicity taken from the Scandinavian designs - (A reminder about Designer Carl Malmsten's refined designs) mixed with the old English Campaign style.  

Cot - for "Under Canvas" or in your "Travellers Nest"

Cot used as a Coffee table

Luggage Rack

Stool

Desk Chair

Folding Screen

Tray Table 

Bookshelf

Coffee Table

All Photos from his site - click the below...to explore more of his designs

http://richardwrightman.com/

Saturday, December 3, 2011

Early Morning - A Walk With Nature - Northern Europe...

(All Photos by Tavarua)

Waking up - another great day - a moth on the window...

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."
- Marcus Aurelius


Today a walk with nature...


After breakfast in the old library...


The sun is rising...


Shadows from the old trees - reflections of the past... 


The air is cold and crisp...


Some frost on the ground...


"Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen."

- John Muir



"If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not knowing, life would not be worth living."
- Henri Pioncera




"Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more."
- Vincent van Gogh


"Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her.”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Sculptured by nature - a simple leaf of beauty...






Another evening and a walk in the park. 


Evening smoke...