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Charade (1963). Look at that beautiful Art Nouveau lamp. I want it bad. The movie — a romantic suspense  set in Paris — was pretty delightful, too. Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn were such wonderful personalities.

Wings of Desire, or Der Himmel über Berlin (1987). Favorite line: “Time heals all… but what if Time itself is [...]

I have been sooooo into mobiles lately. Just ask the several people who received them as Christmas gifts. I have been into metallics as well. You may be unable to tell from the photos, but these twenty-one triangles are painted shiny, shiny gold.
(Also in the corner of my blue, blue bedroom is the Van Gogh [...]

Amazon sez: “What is Amazon PayPhrase? PayPhrase is an easy-to-remember shortcut to shipping and payment information in your Amazon.com account. Use it for Express Checkout at Amazon.com and across the web. … You can create an original PayPhrase  yourself, or select one of our suggestions.”
Robin: “What would you suggest for my PayPhrase, Amazon?”
Amazon: “My suggestions, [...]

Hahahahaha. Look at that ridiculous little face. Hahahaha.

“I do not believe that ever any building was truly great, unless it had mighty masses, vigorous and deep, of shadow mingled with its surface. And among the first habits that a young architect should learn, is that of thinking in shadow, not looking at a design in its miserable liny skeleton; but conceiving it [...]

I am happily reunited with my guitar! To celebrate, here’s a cover of Iron & Wine’s “Jezebel”… Jezebel.m4a

Overheard on airplane from PVD to LAS: “I’m not as awkward as I think I are. Uh, I mean — “

au revoir, chez nous, au revoir, la neige

“To love the contents of a book and care nothing about the volume itself, to love the treasure and to be unmindful of the earthen vessel that loyally holds and preserves it, is to be only half a lover, deaf to a whole series of notes in the gamut of emotion. The book lover, more [...]

Source: Publishers’ Bindings Online, 1815–1930: The Art of the Book. University of Wisconsin–Madison. I highly recommend looking through their collection! Search string “art nouveau” gets 132 results, all of them delicious.
Which one of the above is your favorite?