In dutch you don’t say “I love you”, you say “godver mijn klote fiets is alweer gejat” which is like “our hearts will be together forever, even when we’re apart”, I love that. Such a beautiful language.
Editorial detail of Guinevere van Seenus in ‘Dreaming of Another World’ photographed by Tim Walker for Vogue Italia March 2011
Karlie Kloss in “Destination Detox” by Mario Testino for Vogue, July 2013
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William Sharp, one of the first chromolithographic printers in the U.S., created these extraordinary illustrations for the large folio Victoria Regia (1854) by John Fisk Allen. Allen, a well-known horticulturalist, cultivated a specimen of the rare, huge (up to 8 feet in diameter), fast-growing (up to an inch an hour!) water lily, native to the Amazon. After months of careful tending, the plant—named in honor of the recently-crowned Queen Victoria—blossomed on the evening of July 21, 1853. Sharp’s depictions of this exotic wonder—in various stages of bloom—were masterpieces and elevated the then-nascent art of chromolithography to spectacular new heights.
image captions: All images are from a copy of Victoria Regia in our collections. Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
The Inspiration Pad by Marc Thomasset
“I wanted to turn the conventional upside down with curved, angles and twisted lines in order to create one which could inspire people to unleash their own creativity.”
