thehystericalsociety: Brownie box camera (Via)
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about mebelle epoque
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petitdictionnairelamode: Women’s gloves, ca. 1837 (1825-1850); Boston MFA
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romanticism
memoryecstacy: ‘Plagued by depression and a growing mental instability, Tennant became more and more reclusive, rarely leaving his bedroom. His formerly stylish manor was in complete disarray, yet he never lost his unique sense of the fabulous, or his taste for champagne, and continued to dream his idle dreams. ’
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my room looks exactly like this right nowplus books everywhereand tearsStephen Tennant

thevictorianlady:

F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Coward, 1913

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I'D RATHER NOTF. SCOTT FITZGERALDBELLE EPOQUETHEATER
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"How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?"

~   Virginia Woolf, from Selected Essays

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Virginia Woolfquote
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lauramcphee: Woman’s back, 1930s (Paul Outerbridge Jr.)
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1930s
fleurdechair: “Circa 1890, this is a gorgeous floral tiara, with old brilliant and rose-cut diamonds adorning the branches and leaves, and pear-shaped pearls forming the buds. It’s gold, and also has a detachable setting that can convert the piece to a brooch.”
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belle epoque
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POETRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRY.william shakespearet.s. eliotjohn keats
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valleyofstrangers: living embellishment of the garden 1919 (by Captain Geoffrey Spaulding)
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the swan is all 'wut'belle epoqueswan

Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

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Dead Poets Society
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Germaine Krull, Hands Study, 1929
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also one of my favourite photogtaphs of all timesStephen Tennant
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