Parisian Shops

The models for my fantasy country store, Marius et Victorine.

More Urban Rustic Style

Another of my interpretations of the Urban Rustic style. This was the first time I set the table with my "Dansk Jette" flatware, collected painstakenly from e-bay.

Axel Vervoordt

I have recently been taken with the design work of Axel Vervoordt. His particular brand of elegance coupled with rusticity fits well with my idea of how to live in the country. This arrangement on my coffee table was my effort to create some of that urban-rustic style. The table itself belonged to my parents, and was made by Drexel in 1959. I used some of my collection of celadon pottery together with boxes, shards, and other bits I found around the house.

Someone named Victorine.

This painting by Manet of Young Woman in 1866 is said to be of the model Victorine Meurent, who also posed for Manet's Olympia.

Someone named Marius