Banquet Journal

felted carpets

marie taglioni

Reading this: In the 1840s, when Marie Taglioni went on pointe for a few seconds in La Sylphide, her momentary weightlessness became an icon of the transcendent power of ballet. A pair of her sho...

maisons de vacances

    since it is technically the last day of summer vacation, i thought i would post these images from a thrifted copy of hachette's la décoration: maisons de vacance. what i find most remarkable a...

rock

beautiful chromolithographs from cabinet of treasures, including minerals and stones...

auntie mame

  how much do i love this movie...

bloom magazine

the only failing in having access to the bloom magazine archives is trying to credit the contributors - any ideas? postscript: Amira Fritz!!!

molly

  from cat party via flashes of her and now that i've gone super short again, i found these to covet. kingfisher feather? get out of town... and lastly, thanks for the shout out erin!

inspiration

an odd title perhaps for a post about the total lack of inspiration i have been feeling around here. blame it of the flu, the drudgery, the moon closing in. i need a thrift store and a newstand an...

t & t & twitter

  tams, my business partner in all things banquet, has started a twitter for us (see the link at right). i have to say, i have gone from a non-believer to a quick convert, and not for any of the re...

lygia clark

  at art school, she was behind most of what i was doing in the end, but i had kind of forgotten all about lygia clark. today she's on the brain again.