ANNEMARIE SCHWARZENBACH.

Mongolian burial tower. Thysville Africa Dancing men in the jungle between Bumba and Aketi (Route Royale). Imam Reza. Turkestan. Bazaar: carpets from Daulatabad. ““Hazrat Ali” – tomb of the 2nd prophet. Annemarie Schwarzenbach was a Swiss writer, journalist, traveler and photographer. In July 1939 she and ethnologist Ella Maillart drove from Switzerland to Afganistan via [...]

GARDEN PARTIES.

Elizabeth & Solita are back! with the kitties & plenty of gardens and parties to go ’round. I am revisiting the files of Elizabeth Jenks Clark and enjoying her at-home outdoor lifestyle. via Yale University Beinecke Rare Book Library

TEXTILE MASH UP.

Whew! I just dove into a deep deep pool of textiles, patterns and power. My eyes are now beaming pattern light. Check this place out and if you have the money—spend it on South Persian Tribal rugs. Totally worth it. via Rug Rabbit

ROERICH MTNS.

Mountain study. c. 1925–34 Red Horses. 1926 Kanchenjunga. 1936 Everest Range. From “Himalayan” series. 1924 Nicholas Roerich was a Russian guru—also a painter, philosopher, scientist, writer, traveler, and public figure. Upon watching hours of television in Florida I rediscovered via the Discovery channel the works of Roerich. The paintings were familiar to me. And then [...]

NAGALAND.

A Saturday afternoon viewing of a very dated, though forever interesting The Men Who Hunted Heads – the Nagas of Assam. A BBC film, compiled from film made by Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf in the Naga Hills of the Himalayas in 1970. An overview on the Naga people written here via University of Cambridge – Digital [...]

MS. HEYMANN.

Margarete Heymann—Bauhaus bad girl—unhappily left the school after one year. She appealed to founder Martin Gropius for permission to study ceramics. Bauhaus/Gropius strongly encouraged women to study textiles and most did. But Heymann refused, rocking the Bauhaus boat. Read more about her life via NYTimes Thanks to Carl Williamson for sharing this portrait. So so [...]

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