A beautiful quote from a beautiful painter
Art is not what you see but what you make others see.
—Edgar Degas
An Ode to Old Japan
One of the Hello Pretty team, Justin, left Cape Town yesterday for a blissful 2 week break in Japan. So instead of writing about how bitterly jealous I am, sitting here in these foggy overcast conditions, I’m posting some vintage Japan snaps from the Flickr Commons.
- Woman with mirrors, taken in 1890.
- Home Learning to play a harp-like instrument.
- Playing the samisen which is a 3-stringed guitar.
- A doctor and his patient. Taken between 1867 and 1869. Is that a sword poking out from under his cape? Not sure I would like being treated under those conditions.
This one’s a little more modern (from 1966), but I loved it and had to include it. Japanese Origami, photographed in 1966.
Wild Flowers by Skinny laMinx
This excites us!
"It’s a bit Japanese, it’s sweetly feminine, a little Folky, a tad popp-y, and just a little bit mad!" - Heather Moore of Skinny laMinx. How appropriate on the eve of my trip to Japan).
Thanks Heather. Thanks for being awesome.
We love http://skinnylaminx.com/blog
Wallpaper
Love these! From http://ideas.homelife.com.au/
New Moon Africa's iKapa Coat Rack
The current object of my affection: New Moon Africa's iKapa coat rack. Trying to work out how to fit this into our studio apartment - I must have it! Don’t remember the name of the store right at the moment but I know that there is a place at the Old Biscuit Mill who carries them and if memory serves they are in the region of R350.
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