Saturday, March 31, 2007

Art deco vanity


In Summer's Room, originally uploaded by Shani's Stuff.

Paper Moon


date, originally uploaded by kathleenie.

Loretta Young, age 19

Friday, March 30, 2007

Marland Stone, Gloria Swanson


Marland Stone, Gloria Swanson, originally uploaded by Gatochy.

Found in Greenbriar Picture Shows blog. Click image for 895 x 1024 version.

Thursday, March 29, 2007

Enoch Bolles, Spicy Stories April, 1929

Cutex, 1936


SEPT 1936 NAIL AD, originally uploaded by kristina images.

W.T. Benda


W.T. Benda, originally uploaded by Gatochy.

Found in The Golden Age of Illustration Project thread. Click image for 626 x 640 version.

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

The Big Day


The Big Day, originally uploaded by 1CDNGUY.

October 4, 1927. Ann Fenwick Bett (nee Mailer) and David Alexander Bett.

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Renée Perle, 1930-1932

"John Galliano calls Renée Perle, the inspiration behind his fall show, "a kittenish Parisian coquette." Jacques Henri Lartigue, who immortalized her in his pictures, had another term: angel. The revered photographer met his muse in 1930 on the Rue de la Pompe. He thought she was Mexican, but he guessed wrong; Perle was Romanian, and a model once employed by the French dressmaker Doeuillet. "She is beautiful," Lartigue told his diary. "The small mouth with the full painted lips! The ebony black eyes. From under her fur coat comes a warmth of perfume. The head looks petite on her long neck." The pair spent two years together, cavorting as if on eternal vacation in Cannes, Juan-les-Pins, and Biarritz, with Lartigue's camera always at the ready. In the "shadowless heaven" of his photographs, glamorous women, including his first and second wives, Bibi and Florette, abound, but Perle's lacquered hair, slender silhouette, modern T-shirts, armfuls of bangles, and talonlike nails shone the brightest. "Around her," Lartigue wrote, "I see a halo of magic.""

Laird Borrelli

1931
Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Renée Perle, 1931

At Biarritz, France, 1930
Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Renée Perle, 1930

Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Renée Perle, 1930-1932

Juan-les-Pins, France, 1930
Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Renée Perle, 1930

1931
Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Renée Perle, 1930-1932

1930
Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Renée Perle, 1930

My Sweetie Went Away, 1923

Click image for 637 x 877 version.

Monday, March 26, 2007

W.T. Benda

W.T. Benda
W.T. Benda, originally uploaded by Gatochy.

Found in The Golden Age of Illustration Project thread.

Sunday, March 25, 2007

La Vie Heureuse, 1913


La Vie Heureuse, 1913, originally uploaded by faithxrudd.

Click for bigger.

Along Came Auntie, 1926

Along Came Auntie, 1926
Along Came Auntie, 1926, originally uploaded by Gatochy.

Found in Trouble in Paradise.

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