Crooked Symmetry

There is a row of homes in Springfield, Vt. that seem to teeter on the hillside on which they were built- weather- worn and crooked, they have the same elegance that Annie McClure achieves in her home's styling- symmetrical, off-balanced, elegant and refined yet working-class practical. When we first saw her profile in Country Home, it changed us! Here is Ms. McClure's home with the crooked homes of Springfield (and an open Grew's Anatomy of Plants):

Haunted

1. Melanie Comber, Lake Search for Missing Swimmer 7

Melanie Comber's oil and pigment on canvases at Fine Art Society reference everything from daguerreotypes to lunar landings, snowy landscapes to viruses under a microscope. They are as foreign as they are familiar, as beautiful as they are inexplicably unsettling.

1. Melanie Comber, Short Story

2. -minus- album artwork for Arctic Exhibition via Yahoo! Music UK and Ireland

3. Melanie Comber, Anglosaxon

1. Melanie Comber, Fish Wish

2. Daguerreotype for jonnyphoto's Flickr Photostream

1. Melanie Comber, Odds and Evens

2. Herbert Ponting, Icebergs from Scott's last expedition if the Arctic

3. Melanie Comber, No Man's Land

1. Jonnyphoto, Forgotten Moon

2.Melanie Comber, 123

3. From Australia's First Arctic Expedition, Skeleton of a sea elephant and Harold Hamilton

Loving Green

A guest room at our home in New Hampshire

In researching images for the blog today, we came across an image of our own home that inspired us--a shot of our front guest room in green. When we bought the house, the room was covered with wallpaper that wasn't our style nor old enough to retain any history...so it came down. We had dreams of exposing creamy, horsehair plaster walls, but when the paper was removed we were surprised to find green walls. At first we were wildly disappointed, but upon further evaluation, we not only realized it was old milk paint (history!), it was also looked kind of amazing. Some other beauties in green...

via Interior Divine

Ancestral Myth Theodoros Stamos, 1947 via 1st Dibs

Interior of Oswaldsmill

Straw Milton Resnick, 1982 via 1st Dibs

Interior from Lars Bolander's "Scandinavian Design" via Home Design

20th Century expressionist painting, Jennings Tofel, 1940's via 1st Dibs

via Interior Divine

Time Passages

Kevin Paulsen, Four Bearance via Blue Works Ground

We discovered through The World of Interiors a profile about Kevin Paulsen, artist and muralist. We fell in love with his very modern interpretation of 18th and 19th itinerate art, his palette, stylized rendering and subject matter. Somehow, his works ring so true that we accept them as historical references and as a relevant modern paintings....

Kevin Paulsen via Tyler Taylor Fine Art

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Old Deerfield Village #156 by Crick3 on Flickr

Kevin Paulsen via Tyler Taylor Fine Art

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Shoe from the walls of the 1788 Sycamores house from the South Hadley Historical Society

Kevin Paulsen Untitled Ink on Paper

Old Deerfield Village #154 by Crick3 on Flickr

Kevin Paulsen via Tyler Taylor Fine Art

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Shoe from the walls of the 1788 Sycamores house from the South Hadley Historical Society

Kevin Paulsen via Tyler Taylor Fine Art

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Old Deerfield Village #155 by Crick3 on Flickr

Kevin Paulsen via Tyler Taylor Fine Art

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Wingchairs and Nicholson

1. William Nicholson, Sir James Matthew Barrie

2. William Nicholson, The Nailsea Jug

3. 1930's Frits Henningsen Wingback via Remodelista

4. William Nicholson, Woman in Hat with Gloves

5. English library chair sold at Susanin's for $2,200

6. William Nicholson, Books and Things

7. 19th century wingchair from San Rafael Auction Gallery brought $425

8. William Nicholson, Portrait of Diamond Hardinge

9. Library chair sold at Kamelot Auctions for $700

10. William Nicholson, Sheffield Plate