LustList: Tod’s
(bonus points for the red being in patent.)
From Tod’s.
Really??
Now I am definitely on the antique trunk-as-decor bandwagon, I love the whole concept of steamer trunks– trunks that you would pack for a long voyage with every possible necessity and luxury you could need organized into neat little compartments– but this?? Really??
Restoration Hardware, the kings of knocking off the current trends (see their other trunks, which are direct copies of Andrew Martin’s cool repro steamer trunks), may have gotten a little overambitious on this one.
While I do like the concept of an office-in-a-box (it just seems so wonderfully organized), this is a bit ridiculous. A trunk + an office in a box is just too much. And seriously, would you ever close it? It’s essentially an entire room within a room, it would look absurdly gargantuan if you closed it! Like an actual elephant in a room!
Restoration Hardware Mayfair trunk here.
From Sea to Shining Sea
Cool city posters designed by Heads of State, based on traditional tourism advertising icons for each city.
Award-winning poster designers and illustrators Heads of State here.
via Curated.
LustList >> Art Over Bookshelves
At top by Jan Showers.
Curated by:
Eliza Coleman
Section:
Arts Visuels, Interiors, LustList, styling
Labels:
The Americans
All images from Jacob Perlmutter website.
Unfortunately for those of us stateside, the exhibit will be in London. Hopefully it will come to the US at some point! If not, I’ve got my eye on the catalogue from the exhibit…
Discovered via Curated.
Curated by:
Eliza Coleman
Section:
Arts Visuels, Classics
Labels:
classics, Photography
New L.L. Bean
Golden Age
Loving this piece from the NYT Style Magazine on the former glory of the styles of the skies.
“We’re told that there was a magical time long ago when, whatever your seat assignment, flying was first-class. But when did it all end? Last week, Marie Force, the archivist at the Delta Heritage Museum in Atlanta, published an online gallery of photographs of Delta flight attendant uniforms from 1940 to the present. “Delta was one of the more conservative airlines,” Force says. “We didn’t have hot pants.” Still, for almost 40 straight years, the airline’s female flight attendants (something called “stewardesses”) turned heads.
In the 1940s, they did it with military-style overseas caps and spectator shoes; in the ’50s, with futurist insignias and stiletto pumps; and in the ’60s, with A-line topcoats, alligator-print boots, Chanel-inspired jackets with three-quarter-length sleeves and the “Delberet,” a pillbox hat designed for Delta by Mea Hanauer, a New York milliner. The ’70s were all about coo-coo colors, bell-bottom pants, Slavic tunics and, weirdly, a yellow raincoat. And then in the ’80s, Delta took a sartorial nosedive that it couldn’t recover from until 2001. Return your seat to its upright position, and take a look.”
My mom was actually just telling me today that the prettiest girl she knew as a teenage in Memphis went on to be a Pan-American stewardess and that it was the biggest deal because only the most beautiful girls were hired by Pan-American. Then, she was scouted by someone from Hollywood who was on one of her flights, and she ended up in the movie South Pacific. A “fairytale story,” as my mom put it. Those were different days indeed.
Article here.
via… someone who still flies in style… thanks!
You’re Just My Type
What a cute idea.
Morning, sunshine!
PS- I love when babies, like the one at top, are in the “surprise face” phase and they make that face all the time, like, for any/no reason.
