tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80727328638811721892024-03-14T08:46:22.203+01:0063 gramos63 grams is the average weight of a Carré Hermès .Birkinmaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635913931819611noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8072732863881172189.post-76186150858684502122014-03-29T20:48:00.000+01:002014-03-29T20:48:22.780+01:00Hermes scarves: The Rarest OnesThe content of this particular post is restricted, email me for further information.<br />
Thank you.Birkinmaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635913931819611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8072732863881172189.post-39623594361253773912012-09-04T02:08:00.009+02:002012-09-05T22:14:54.773+02:00HUBERT DE WATRIGANT IV: DANS LES BRANCHES DEL'OMBÚ<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">HUBERT DE WATRIGANT: DANS LES BRANCHES DEL'OMBÚ<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Hubert de Watrigant<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />First issued: 2005</span><br />
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</span></div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As usual, Hubert de Watrigant made an incredible research on the theme chosen for the design, which shows great knowledge of the gaucho culture as we saw in his other Argentinian themed design <i>Lujo Criollo</i> (2005) <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(See more about Watrigant's work and biography here: <a href="http://63gramos.blogspot.com.ar/2011/01/hubert-de-watrigant-i-les-haras.html">Hubert de Watrigant</a>)</span></span></div><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /> <br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /> <div style="margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: auto; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 668px;"><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=1880&u=15715137" rel="nofollow" style="color: #eb9500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i31.servimg.com/u/f31/15/71/51/37/dans_l10.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a></div><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /> <br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /> <div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At the center of the scarf there is a silhouette of an Ombú tree which gives the title to the scarf, <i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Under the Branches of the Ombú</i>. This tree is very common in Argentina, actually they are very popular spots in Buenos Aires for the visitors to take pictures of their impressive trunks:</span></div><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /> <div style="margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: auto; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 668px;"><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=1881&u=15715137" rel="nofollow" style="color: #eb9500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i31.servimg.com/u/f31/15/71/51/37/omba_e10.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a></div><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /> <div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The ombú has an umbrella-like canopy that spreads to a girth of 12 to 15 meters (40 to 50 feet) and can attain a height of 12 to 18 meters (40 to 60 feet), it's considered a symbol for the gaucho culture.</span></div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; line-height: 20px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; line-height: 20px;">In this scene we can see two gauchos at full gallop waving <strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">boleadoras</strong>. Traditionally, they are primitive hunting tools made of cow leather but as many other gaucho items, they have also become pieces of art made of noble materials.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; line-height: 20px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span> <br />
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<div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is a charming scene of a <strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">guitarreada</strong>. Gauchos are well known for their musical parties and traditional folklore. If you pay attention to the scene, you can see several key parts of the gaucho attire, such as the <strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">tiradores</strong> (wide leather sash covered with coins or other pieces of silver), fastened with <strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">rastras</strong> (big silver clasps) that hold the <strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">cuchillo</strong> o <strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">facón </strong>(knife):</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; line-height: 20px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span> <br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; line-height: 20px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; line-height: 20px;"> <a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=1891&u=15715137" rel="nofollow" style="color: #eb9500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i31.servimg.com/u/f31/15/71/51/37/tirado10.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; line-height: 20px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">The </span><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">guitarreadas</strong><span class="Apple-style-span"> are usually held in the open after a good </span><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">asado</strong><span class="Apple-style-span"> (barbecue), in these parties, the gauchos play traditional instruments and recite old poems.</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=1892&u=15715137" rel="nofollow" style="color: #eb9500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i31.servimg.com/u/f31/15/71/51/37/guitar10.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a></span><br />
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<div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's impossible to imagine a gaucho without his <strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">poncho</strong>. Ponchos are handwoven pieces of llama or alpaca wool usually worn as a cape, but they can also be used as blankets for the freezing nights out in the open in <strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">La Pampa</strong>. <br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />In addition to the poncho, this scene shows some important parts of the horse equipment such as headstall, stirrups, reins, blanket, etc.</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; line-height: 20px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span> <br />
<div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: auto; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 668px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=1893&u=15715137" rel="nofollow" style="color: #eb9500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i31.servimg.com/u/f31/15/71/51/37/dans_l18.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; line-height: 20px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=1894&u=15715137" rel="nofollow" style="color: #eb9500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i31.servimg.com/u/f31/15/71/51/37/caball10.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; line-height: 20px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=1895&u=15715137" rel="nofollow" style="color: #eb9500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i31.servimg.com/u/f31/15/71/51/37/estrib10.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; line-height: 20px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span> <br />
<div align="justify" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; line-height: 20px;">Nowadays antique ponchos are extremely valuable pieces, they are very sought after for interior decoration. The ponchos worn by women (usually opened at the front) are called <b>ruanas.</b></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; line-height: 20px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span> <br />
<div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: auto; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 668px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=1896&u=15715137" rel="nofollow" style="color: #eb9500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i31.servimg.com/u/f31/15/71/51/37/ruana10.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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<div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Another typical activity of the gauchos is the <strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">jineteada</strong>, they are equestrian shows performing horse races and skill games:</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span> <br />
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<div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have borrowed the last picture from dear <strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Sachiko</strong> from <strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Greenjade</strong> who kindly allowed me to use it to illustrate the title of the scarf with a very different, more subtle color way.</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; line-height: 20px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span> <br />
<div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: auto; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 668px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=1901&u=15715137" rel="nofollow" style="color: #eb9500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i31.servimg.com/u/f31/15/71/51/37/branch10.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; line-height: 20px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span> <br />
<div align="justify" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; line-height: 20px;">The piece near the title is a <strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">chifle</strong>, a big cow horn used to transport liquids, especially brandy.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; line-height: 20px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span> <div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: auto; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 668px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=1902&u=15715137" rel="nofollow" style="color: #eb9500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i31.servimg.com/u/f31/15/71/51/37/chifle10.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span></span></span><br />
<div align="justify" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; line-height: 20px;">Another interesting detail of this part of the scarf is the ribbon displaying a thistle flower, the <b>flor de cardo</b>, is the national flower of Argentina.</span><br />
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</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; line-height: 20px;">Dans les Branches del'Ombú is not the only Argentinian themed Hermès scarf, to the best of my knowledge there are some others:</span><br />
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</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><i>Lujo Criollo</i> by Hubert de Watrigant silk/cashmere PM 2005 GM 2011</div><div></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; line-height: 20px;"><div align="justify" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i>Gaucho</i> by Cathy Latham 1978<br />
<i>Gaucho</i> (pochette) by J.Metz date unknown<br />
<i>Pampa</i> by Jean de Fougerolle 1988<br />
<i>Argentine Diaguita et Guaraní</i> by J.Y Merthier 1966<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It depicts most of the typical elements of Ledoux's work: minute detail in human figures, architectural elements, elaborate ornaments and historical aspects.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The title of the scarf is shown in the center of a gilded rococo frame:</span></div><br />
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<div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The corners of the scarf feature four elaborate ornaments with a riot of decorative elements: Flowers and other vegetal decoration, musical instruments, palm leaves, cherubs, ribbon, scrolls and so on, all of them characteristic elements of the Rococo Style. Rococo (<i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">pronounced /rəˈkoʊkoʊ</i>/) took place in the early part of the 18th century in Paris as a reaction against the grandeur, symmetry and strict regulations of the Baroque. Its main features are a strong usage of asymmetrical designs, curves, gold and creamy, pastel-like colors.</span></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">The theme of the scarf is the traditional Chanson, which is in general any lyric-driven French song, usually polyphonic and secular. A singer specialising in chansons is known as a<i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"chanteur" </i>(male) or <i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"chanteuse"</i> (female); a collection of chansons, especially from the late Middle Ages and Renaissance, is known as a <i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"chansonnier"</i>. French solo song developed in the late 16th century. Another offshoot of chanson called <i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">chanson réaliste </i>(realist song), was a popular musical genre in France, primarily from the 1880s until the end of World War II. Born of the cafés-concerts and cabarets of the Montmartre district of Paris and influenced by literary realism and the naturalist movements in literature and theatre, chanson réaliste was a musical style which was mainly performed by women and dealt with the lives of Paris's poor and working class.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">There are twelve vignettes displayed in a circular pattern around the central medallion, all of them are accompanied by a fragment of its score.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><i><u>Dansons le Capucine</u></i>, a circle game song:</span></span><br />
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</div></div><div align="justify" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; line-height: 20px;">The second vignette in the bottom right is <i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><u>Aupres de ma Blonde</u></i>, "Next to My Girlfriend". This tune already existed in the mid of the 17th century, it appeared during the French-Dutch War reigning Louis XIV. The verses were composed later by André Joubert who was taken as a hostage by the Dutch in 1674. The song was first seen in print in 1704.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; line-height: 20px;">There are slightly different versions of this song. It's also well know in Canada.</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</div><div align="justify" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">The song is still commonly played at parades. For the same reasons, it gained widespread popularity as a drinking song and nursery rhyme</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121;">.</span></div><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><div style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: auto; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 668px;"><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=1577&u=15715137" rel="nofollow" style="color: #eb9500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i41.servimg.com/u/f41/15/71/51/37/aupres10.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a></div><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><div align="justify" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">The third vignette at the bottom right corner is <u><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Giroflé, Giroflá</i>:</u></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">From an opera bouffe in three acts, music by Charles Lecocq and text by Van Loo and Aterrier. It was first produced at the Théâtre des Fantaisies Parisiennes, Brussels, March 21, 1874.</span></div><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><div style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: auto; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 668px;"><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=1578&u=15715137" rel="nofollow" style="color: #eb9500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i41.servimg.com/u/f41/15/71/51/37/chanso22.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a></div><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><div align="justify" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">The scene is laid in Spain in the XVIII century. The story relates the pecuniary difficulties of Don Bolero, governor of the province with a variety of titles but no money. He is, in fact, badly in debt, owing 4,000,000 francs to Marasquin & Co., with no prospect of paying it. His available assets are his twin daughters, so remarkably similar in appearance that they can be distinguished only by wearing scarfs of different colors. </span></div><div align="justify" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">You can listen to Yves Montand's version of this chanson by clicking below:</span></div><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><div style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: auto; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 668px;"><embed height="350" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" quality="high" scale="exactfit" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/yWQbyG4qQOI" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" wmode="transparent"></embed></div></span><div style="color: #292121; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.4em;"></div></div><div class="content" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 3em; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="color: #292121; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.4em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></span></div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="color: #292121; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.4em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<div style="line-height: 1.4em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Upper corner to the right, <i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><u>Il Était un Petite Homme</u></i> (There was a little man). </span></span></div><div style="color: #292121; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.4em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span></span></div><div style="color: #292121; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.4em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=1583&u=15715137" rel="nofollow" style="color: #eb9500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i41.servimg.com/u/f41/15/71/51/37/chanso23.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a></span></span></div><div style="color: #292121;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This little rhyme, whose author is unknown, is very popular with children because of its absurd and comical character.</span></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=1584&u=15715137" rel="nofollow" style="color: #eb9500; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i41.servimg.com/u/f41/15/71/51/37/iletai10.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">At the top of the scarf there are two vignettes, to the right top corner we found a scene of the song <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i><u>Il Pleut, Il Pleut, Bergére</u></i></span> (It's raining, shepherdess)</span></span></span></div><div align="justify" style="color: #292121; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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<div style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.4em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=1585&u=15715137" rel="nofollow" style="color: #eb9500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i41.servimg.com/u/f41/15/71/51/37/chanso24.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a></span></span></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">This song is taken from the operetta <i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Laure et Pétrarque</i>, written in 1780 by Fabre d'Églantine, with by Louis-Victor Simon.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />The shepherdess to which the song refers is the French queen <strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Marie Antoinette</strong> who loved to play the shepherdess in the Hameau de la reine of the Palace of Versailles. The rain and the storm coming could be an allusion to the troubles that led to the French Revolution.</span></span></span></div><div class="content" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 3em; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="content" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 3em; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.4em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"></span></div><div align="justify" style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">At the top left we found <i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><u>La Palisse eut peu de Bien</u></i>. The Song of la Palice (in French: la chanson de la Palisse) is a burlesque song attributed to Bernard de la Monnoye (1641–1728) about alleged feats of French nobleman and military leader Jacques de la Palice (1470–1525). From that song came the French term lapalissade meaning an utterly obvious truth</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=1586&u=15715137" rel="nofollow" style="color: #eb9500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i41.servimg.com/u/f41/15/71/51/37/chanso25.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><br />
<div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Jacques de la Palice died in the battle of Pavia (1525), while fighting against the Spanish armies as a marshal under Francis I. The epitaph on his tombstone reads:</span><br />
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</span></span></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">The next vignette shows a scene from the song<i> <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><u>Chantons Pour Passer le Temps.</u></span></i> The Norman sailors sang that melody when traditionally "saw the capstan", which is a vertical-axled rotating machine developed for use on sailing ships to apply force to ropes, cables, and hawsers.</span></div><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=1589&u=15715137" rel="nofollow" style="color: #eb9500; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i41.servimg.com/u/f41/15/71/51/37/chanso27.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">The sailors would coordinate the rhythm of their movements by singing this particular type of sea shanty as they walked around the capstan.</span></div><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=1588&u=15715137" rel="nofollow" style="color: #eb9500; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i41.servimg.com/u/f41/15/71/51/37/chanto10.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a></span><div style="color: #292121; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.4em;"></div></div><div class="content" style="color: #292121; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 3em; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div class="content" style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 3em; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">There are four more vignettes around the central medallion. From left to right, the first one is <i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><u>En Passant par la Lorraine</u></i>, this song became famous following the proclamation of the Third Republic (1870):</span><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=1590&u=15715137" rel="nofollow" style="color: #eb9500; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i41.servimg.com/u/f41/15/71/51/37/chanso28.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">The following one is <u><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Cadet Rousselle a Trois Habits</i>,</u> the song satirized a French bailiff by the name of Guillaume (William) Rousselle, widely known as Cadet Rousselle. He was seen as a jovial bon vivant, a little eccentric, but he enjoyed the sympathy of his fellow citizens. The song inspired a French film by André Hunebelle in 1954.</span></div><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=1591&u=15715137" rel="nofollow" style="color: #eb9500; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i41.servimg.com/u/f41/15/71/51/37/chanso29.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span></div><div class="content" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 3em; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="content" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 3em; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">To the right we found a vignette based on the song <i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><u>Bon Voyage Monsieur Dumollet</u></i>, composed by Marc-Antoine-Madeleine Désaugiers. This is possibly one of the pretties drawings on this scarf because of the beautiful details, body language and general atmosphere:</span><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=1592&u=15715137" rel="nofollow" style="color: #eb9500; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i41.servimg.com/u/f41/15/71/51/37/chanso30.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><div align="justify" style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">The last scene is <i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><u>Menier tu Dors</u></i>, a french circle song which tells us the story of a miller who felt asleep while his mill was spinning, a bell ringing in each round allowed the miller to assess the speed of the mill, a passerby warns the miller: "your mill is spinning too fast". In this circle song, the children mock the movements of the mill.</span></div><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=1593&u=15715137" rel="nofollow" style="color: #eb9500; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i41.servimg.com/u/f41/15/71/51/37/chanso31.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a></span></div><div class="content" style="color: #292121; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 3em; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div class="content" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 3em; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">I'd like to finish this long post with some pictures of other <i>Chansons de France</i> owned by two good friends of mine, a brown carrè property of <b>Bonnie</b>, here displayed with her beautiful Havanne Birkin:</span></span></div><div class="content" style="color: #292121; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 3em; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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<div class="signature_div" style="color: #292121; font-size: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></div><div class="signature_div" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">Some of you have asked for some action pictures of the scarves I review in this blog. Lately, I'm wearing vintage silks "in pairs", I think it's a way to make them look updated. Here you are a picture of <i>Chansons de France</i> paired with <i>Paris London</i> (Ledoux 1967).</span></div><div class="signature_div" style="font-size: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><br />
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</span></span></div>Birkinmaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635913931819611noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8072732863881172189.post-36528744913619398242011-12-11T03:08:00.006+01:002011-12-22T17:23:18.235+01:00CATY LATHAM I: NEIGE D'ANTAN.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">CATY LATHAM: NEIGE D'ANTAN (The Snow of Former Times</span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px;">)</span></span><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Caty Latham</span></span><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">First issued: AW1989</span></span><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Reissues: AW1991, AW2002</span></span><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Other issues: AW1991 GM cashmere, AW200 70 cotton, AW2001 PM cashmere.</span></span><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Versions: Neige d'Antan II AW2001</span></span></span><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: auto; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 668px;"><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=1457&u=15715137" rel="nofollow" style="color: #eb9500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i41.servimg.com/u/f41/15/71/51/37/neige_16.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a></div><br />
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<div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As Christmas is coming, I wanted to welcome the season with the profile of a Christmas themed scarf. There were several scarves which may have fitted this purpose, being the most iconic ones <i>Noel au 24 Faubourg</i> by Dimitri Rybalchenko and <i>Neige d'Antan</i> by Caty Latham, but I finally decided to review the last one as it is a perfect example of vintage Christmas.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm posting detail pictures of different color ways, the ice blue one is from 1991 and the black bordered is from 1989 both of them are from my collection, the turquoise and the royal blue ones are from Lanit's collection, thank you dear friend!</span></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The central motive is set into a square created by two pairs of wooden skis with antique leather bindings and many Christmas symbols, such like holly tree:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lovely and meaningful mistletoe: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">According to ancient Christmas tradition, a man and a woman who meet under a hanging of mistletoe were obliged to kiss. The custom may be of Scandinavian origin.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 13px;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">It was described in 1820 by American author </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Irving" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="Washington Irving"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><i>Washington Irving</i></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"> in his "</span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sketch_Book_of_Geoffrey_Crayon" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">":</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The central image of the scarf presents a couple of Belle Epoque jumping skiers in Chamonix Mont-Blanc, they are holding a red sign with the title of the scarf. The clothes that they are wearing are particularly interesting, just imaging jump skiing with a skirt!</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The four borders of the scarf are even more beautiful than the center, they depict charming winter scenes that gives us many hints about how people from 1900s got dressed for winter sports:</span></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The evolution of ski wear has brought about several new technologies over the last century. When downhill skiing took off as a recreational sport in the early 1900s, women wore wool skirts and men wore riding breeches. In the 40s and 50s, it was common for people to wear garments made from wool or even tweed coats and hats tailored specifically for skiing. In the 1950s, with the onset of downhill ski races, the mountains attracted more people. During the 50s and 60s, skiers wore sweaters and wool coats and women wore thin leggings. Patterns included plaid, argyle and Icelandic prints. Hounds tooth was a popular print in the 70s, as were nylon suits and puffy jackets.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
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<div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">The scarf might take its name from <i>The Ballade des dames du temps jadis</i> ("Ballad of the Ladies of Times Past"), a poem by François Villon which celebrates famous women in history and mythology. Particularly famous is its interrogative refrain, <b>Mais où sont les neiges d'antan?</b> This was translated into English by Rossetti as "Where are the snows of yesteryear?", for which he coined the new word yesteryear to translate Villon's antan.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although is commonly assumed that all the Hermès scarves have the brand name accented, there are other designs that feature this characteristic (Les Robes by Ledoux in the newest reissues comes now to my mind).</span></div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhziWtEt8DsMCtfpjEltYNXz45fHl9s4ldjiiA02WBmcdq0uiW2gixwVymvdUuSYBtFyF4SeD5Fs-yofLoQ2g3WN738fcCmGA5J12MN_yKXa6FJV10pzaQVqJ0fSn1f4rnetVeg5QWob3s/s1600/Collage+de+turandot1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhziWtEt8DsMCtfpjEltYNXz45fHl9s4ldjiiA02WBmcdq0uiW2gixwVymvdUuSYBtFyF4SeD5Fs-yofLoQ2g3WN738fcCmGA5J12MN_yKXa6FJV10pzaQVqJ0fSn1f4rnetVeg5QWob3s/s640/Collage+de+turandot1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(Original 1926 poster)</span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121;">As an opera enthusiast, I'm very happy to present the profile of this beautiful scarf inspired in the homonymous work by </span><b style="color: #292121;">Giacomo Puccini. Turandot </b><span style="color: #292121;">was</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121;"> his posthumous opera, a master work in three acts set to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni whose first representation took place at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan on April 25, 1926, one year and five months after Puccini's death.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let me present a very brief plot of this beautiful love story, unlike most of the operas, Turandot has a happy although controversial ending.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why is Turandot's ending controversial? Let's see: Puccini died in 1924 before completing Turandot, and the score was finished by his student Franco Alfano in 1926. Even though Puccini had left notes for the final scenes, Alfano did his own thing — and his ending has been performed ever since. But the story is not over yet: Luciano Berio, one of Italy's leading composers, came up with his own, very different ending. Berio's version was sanctioned by the Puccini estate, and after trial runs in the Canary Islands, Amsterdam and Los Angeles, it was performed in 2002 at the Salzburg Festival... it's amazing, isn't it?</span><br />
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<dd class="comment-body" id="Blog1_cmt-8177067303346371059" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0.5em;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>"I was just wondering about the animals you've described, that are located in the corners of the scarf. I thought that they were representing the 4 gods/seasons/elements in Chinese culture: The Phoenix, which is associated with summer, fire element and the South. The Tiger, associated with autumn, air element and the West. The Dragon, associated with spring, water element and the East and the Tortoise, associated with winter, earth element and the North".</i></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><br />
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<span class="hps">Turandot</span> <span class="hps">tells us that</span> <span class="hps">even in</span> <span class="hps">a fable</span>, which occurred in <span class="hps">a remote time</span>, the <span class="hps">hatred has</span> n<span class="hps">ever</span> <span class="hps">triumphed</span> <span class="hps">over love</span>.<br />
<span class="hps">And</span> <span class="hps">perhaps the</span> <span class="hps">last great</span> <span class="hps">mystery of</span> <span class="hps">Turandot</span> <span class="hps">is</span> <span class="hps">just</span> <span class="hps">how it manages to </span><span class="hps">seduce</span> <span class="hps">almost a</span> <span class="hps">century after its</span> <span class="hps">premiere,</span> <span class="hps">forever in a</span> <span class="hps">captivating</span> <span class="hps">fairy tale</span> <span class="hps">that </span><span class="hps">we can hardly</span> <span class="hps">leave</span> <span class="hps">without seeing</span> <span class="hps">the</span> <span class="hps">final</span> <span class="hps">conclusion</span>. </span></span><br />
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</span></span></div></div>Birkinmaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635913931819611noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8072732863881172189.post-34108324972893670912011-08-10T21:26:00.007+02:002018-01-30T21:32:53.056+01:00MAURICE TRANCHANT I: L'ART D'ECRIRE<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">MAURICE TRANCHANT L'ART D'ECRIRE<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Maurice Tranchant<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />First issued: 1956<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Reissues: 1998, 1999 (mousse gavroche), 2005<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Catalogued 3B</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">Today's post is especially dedicated to my dear friend </span></span><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">Hclub</span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;"> because she is an adoring fan of this beautiful design and she is going through a tough time right now. I know she'll enjoy this entry and hopefully it will put a big smile on her face. </span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;"><i>L'Art d'Ecrire</i>, The art of writing, refers us to calligraphy: The art of producing artistic, stylized, or elegant handwriting or lettering.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />The word calligraphy is derived from the Greek words </span><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">'killi'</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;"> and </span><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">'graphos'</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">, meaning "beautiful" and "writing".<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />The art of calligraphy as we know it today, finds its origins in cave paintings. As humans developed, the art of drawing pictures became quite highly developed and reached great heights under the direction of the Egyptians, who created the highly stylized hieroglyphics.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />A few thousand years later, around 1000 BC, the Phoenicians went a step further and developed one of the first alphabets and writing systems. Being sea faring types, Phoenicians passed along their new skills to every seaport where they went. They influenced the Greeks who developed their own form of writing which by 850 BC the Romans adapted to suit the Latin language.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Latin was the lingua franca of the churches of Europe in the Middle Ages and the monks constituted the only literate members of society, they began to carefully scribe ancient texts into decorative books used by high-ranking church members and nobility members. Paper was expensive during the Middle Ages, so scribing monks developed a writing style that was narrower allowing more words to fit on a single line. This style came to be known as Gothic and lasted as a popular scribing technique throughout much of the Middle Ages.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">By the mid-15th century, however, </span><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">Johannes Gutenberg</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;"> invented the printing press based upon the Gothic lettering of the monks. This new technique allowed faster printing of Bibles and threatened the métier of the monks. Although the use of the printing press spred worldwide, handwriting skills were still in high demand. As the arts bloomed during Europe's Renaissance, so did the art of calligraphy. The italic script was invented in Italy, and became popular throughout most of Europe. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">One of the most special things about today's scarf is to know more about </span><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">Maurice Tranchant's </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">source of inspiration for this design. We find out as soon as we take a look at the center of the scarf:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">In fact, </span><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">Tranchant</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;"> virtually transferred into silk the treatise </span><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">"L’Art d’écrire réduit à des démonstrations vraies et faciles...",</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;"> included in the Diderot and D’Alembert Encyclopedia.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">HUGO GRYGKAR LES EDIFICES DE PARIS 1806<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Hugo Grygkar<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />First issued: unkown date, around 1960<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Catalogued 2A</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">My dear friend </span><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Pauillac</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> kindly shared with me several wonderful pictures of her new Hermès treasure, </span><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Les Edifices de Paris 1806.</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> Our little community of vintage lovers had a wonderful time trying to discover and label all the distinctive building displayed on this beautiful piece of art.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />The central motive is a medallion ornate with ribbons, spears and flags with the colors of Paris, blue and red. In the very center we can find the title of the scarf:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The date, 1806 provides us with the historical framework: </span><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The First French Empire led by Napoleon</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, which was the dominant power of much of continental Europe during the early 19th century.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Beginning at the top center and moving clockwise we can find eight magnificent, historic building of the city of Paris, I have made some little collages with the different designs on the scarf and their corresponding image IRL.</span></div>
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<b>The Spanish Riding School of Vienne</b>, a significant part of Austria’s cultural heritage, is not only <i>the oldest riding academy in the world</i>, it is also the only one where the High School of Classical Horsemanship has been cherished and maintained for over 430 years.<br />
The School takes the Spanish part of its name from the horses which originated from the Iberian Peninsula during the 16th century and which were considered especially noble, spirited and willing and suited for the art of classical horsemanship. Today’s Lipizzaner stallions are the descendants of this proud Spanish breed, a cross between Spanish, Arabian and Berber horses, and they delight horse lovers from all over the world with their performances.</div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
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In 1729 Emperor Charles VI commissioned the architect Josef Emanuel Fischer von Erlach to build the magnificent Winter Riding School in the Hofburg Palace; it was completed in 1735. A portrait of the monarch graces the splendid baroque hall in which the riders of the Spanish Riding School train their Lipizzaner stallions and show off their skills to an international audience during the public performances.</div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
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The budding rider has to overcome many challenges on his long journey from inexperienced cadet to fully qualified rider, perhaps even to chief rider. Depending on each cadet’s individual talent and personal commitment it takes approx. 4 to 6 years to leave the supervision of the Stable Master and achieve the career jump to the position of an assistant rider.</div><br />
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<i>It takes around 8 to 12 years to successfully achieve the status of a fully qualified Rider</i>, years in which many give up and only the very best persevere.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dear <b>Holsby</b> shared a picture of a Lipizzaner with me and kindly accepted that I posted it here, it's called <i>Levade - Spanische Reitschule</i>, it was made by Augarten porcelain factory in Wien. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you so much, dear friend!</span></div><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">First Issue: 1958</span><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">I received my lovely Phaeton this week and couldn't resist doing a bit of research. (BkM this is especially for you and for shelby for her assistance in authenticating it!):</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"></span><br />
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</span></div><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">PHAETON – PHILIPPE LEDOUX</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"> (originally issued in 1958)</span></span></div></strong></span><br />
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</span> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic8zLi-CTn3PNH-0zzQPxuKPcnlNtV6z235Q_hVrJNKf03FWlA8sHtWFHVSrBuimlEypvxXj9571k1nP-zSTe6rKseqFRB0ZCYUO2iLu2cIjSacSP2SNF2P3VV6uDOIKa07QFm6PrFyDk/s1600/phaeto10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><img border="0" height="486" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic8zLi-CTn3PNH-0zzQPxuKPcnlNtV6z235Q_hVrJNKf03FWlA8sHtWFHVSrBuimlEypvxXj9571k1nP-zSTe6rKseqFRB0ZCYUO2iLu2cIjSacSP2SNF2P3VV6uDOIKa07QFm6PrFyDk/s640/phaeto10.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Any Hermes scarf collector, no doubt, is familiar with one of Hermes’ often used design motifs – the carriage. After all, it’s even part of their iconic Ex Libris logo. Ledoux seemed quite fond of the carriage, as well, and often incorporated various styles in his designs for Hermes.</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"></span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">The carriage in question here is a phaeton, from the Greek </span><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">phaethon</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"> - to shine - and dates to the early 19th century when it was fashionable in France to use classical references (we’ll get to that a bit later.) In carriage speak, the phaeton was defined as a sporty open carriage, drawn by a single horse or a pair and was owner driven. Typically, it featured four extravagantly oversized wheels and was very lightly sprung with a minimal body. It was fast, and it was dangerous. It was also quite elegant, as one can see from the painting by George Stubbs below. Because of its speed and grace, the aristocracy adored it.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=123&u=15712164" rel="nofollow" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><img alt="" src="http://i21.servimg.com/u/f21/15/71/21/64/phaeto11.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">And, here we see the various phaetons depicted in Ledoux’s design:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=124&u=15712164" rel="nofollow" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><img alt="" src="http://i21.servimg.com/u/f21/15/71/21/64/phaeto12.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=126&u=15712164" rel="nofollow" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><img alt="" src="http://i21.servimg.com/u/f21/15/71/21/64/phaeto14.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=127&u=15712164" rel="nofollow" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><img alt="" src="http://i21.servimg.com/u/f21/15/71/21/64/phaeto15.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">But, there is so much more to this scarf than simply the haute monde out for a pleasant carriage ride on a lovely spring day in the Bois de Boulogne.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Phaeton also refers to the disastrous ride of Phaeton, the son of Helios (Apollo to the Romans) and the ocean goddess, Klymene (or Clymene, an Oceanid), who set the earth on fire in an attempt to drive the chariot of the sun. Phaeton was raised as the foster son of Merops, the King of Ethiopia, and one day his friend, Epaphus (the son of the king of Egypt) taunted him about his parentage.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><br />
</span></div><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">“Son of Helios?” the other boy said. “A likely story. Your mother is ashamed to admit her liaison with some commoner, and so she claims a lofty lover who’s too </span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">far away to deny it.”</span></i></span></div></i><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Phaeton was distressed by his friend’s taunts and went to his mother, asking again about his true father. Even though she had told him many times, she told him once again:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">“</span><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">It is Helios. I swear by the River Styx, the dread river of the underworld on </span></i></div><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">which the gods of Olympus themselves swear binding oaths. Your father is</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Helios, and if you doubt me, you can go to him yourself, for his halls are to the </span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">east and not far from here.”</span></i></span></div></i><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Delighted and relieved, Phaeton set out to seek his father’s house, following the directions provided by Klymene. His adventures in the eastern lands were many, but they are no longer remembered. In those days, there were no searing deserts but instead, lush gardens, verdant forests and shallow lakes. Still, he was wandering in wild lands, which according to Herodotus, were inhabited by strange and dangerous creatures. So, it took wile and courage to at last reach the Mountain of the Sun.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">He declared himself at the gates, and servants led him up to his father’s great hall to await the chariot of Helios at day’s end.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Helios, when he descended the sky-track and found his son waiting in his halls, was very pleased that Phaeton had sought him out. He embraced the boy and affirmed Klymene’s words that he was, indeed, his true son. Moreover, Helios swore by the River Styx that we would grant Phaeton a wish – any one wish.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><br />
</span></div><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">“Then let me drive your chariot, Father,” said Phaeton. "For then, no king's son will mock me as a bastard."</span></i></span></div></i><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><br />
</span></div><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">“Not that,” said Helios, in distress. “It is not safe for you, my son. The horses</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">that pull the Sun are fierce and wild. Only I may handle them. Ask me another</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">wish.”</span></i></span></div></i><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><br />
</span></div><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">“That is my wish,” Phaeton insisted. “Father, you promised.”</span></i></span></div></i><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">At this, Helios was distraught, for even the gods dared not break an oath sworn upon the Styx. At last, he gave in to his son’s pleas and led him to the stable shortly before dawn.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><br />
</span></div><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">“Fly not too high,” Helios instructed him. “Nor too low. Keep to the zodiac.</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">That is the middle way.”</span></i></span></div></i><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Then he put the whip in Phaeton’s hand and helped him into the chariot. He placed the golden helmet on Phaeton’s head, crowned him with his own fire, winding the seven rays like strings upon his hair and put the white tunic girdlewise over his loins, clothed him in own fiery robe and laced his foot into the purple boot. Overjoyed and proud, Phaeton took the reins with great joy and looking down, thanked his reluctant father for his gift.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Meanwhile, the four horses of Helios, </span><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Aethon</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"> (Blaze), </span><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Eous</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"> (Dawn), </span><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Pyrois</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"> (Fire), and </span><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Phelgon</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">(Flame), kicked at the gates, anxious to be off on their daily journey.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">The bronze doors of the east opened with a clang, and Phaeton stood tall in the chariot as the horses leapt into the sky. They vaulted upwards, red sparks clattering from their harnesses. At first all went well . . . </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=128&u=15712164" rel="nofollow" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><img alt="" height="515" src="http://i21.servimg.com/u/f21/15/71/21/64/img_he11.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="640" /></span></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; line-height: normal;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">(“Phaeton & The Chariot of the Sun,” Athenian red-figure krater, 5th century BC, British Museum, London)</span></i></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><br />
</span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">But Phaeton feared that his friend would not believe him unless he had some proof, so he tried to coax the horses to drop lower over Africa, so Epaphos might see him. The steeds fretted in their harness. His weight was lighter than his father’s, and the chariot was already swinging wildly from side to side. Abruptly, they bolted. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Down they plunged. The sun rattling behind them burned the lower air and set the forests ablaze. Rivers and lakes smoldered and dried up. The lands were parched to deserts, and the people living there were turned brown in the heat. Desperately, Phaeton tried to jerk the reins back and turn the horses upwards. They reared and raced heavenward, leaving the smoking earth behind. The lands below cracked under sheets of ice, and the sky itself began to burn, leaving a white scar in his wake – the Milky Way.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Phaeton drove harder still, drawing the chariot close to </span><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Notos</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"> (the South), to </span><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Boreas</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"> (the North), and close to </span><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Zephyros</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"> (the West) and then to </span><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Euros</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"> (the east.) With wonder, Luna (Selene, the Moon goddess) saw her brother’s team running wildly below her own. She sensed the impending disaster. There was tumult in the sky, shaking the core of the immovable universe. The very axle, which runs through the middle of the revolving heavens (and holds the constellations in their place) bent under the strain. Libyan Atlas (another son of Klymene) could hardly support the rolling firmament of stars, as he rested on his knees with back bowed under this great burden, and all the constellations and the stars were thrown from their paths in complete disarray.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">As Phaeton looked down from this great height, he grew dizzy and ill. With the furious horses of fire running madly before him, he wished he had never set foot in his father’s chariot. But now the chariot was speeding head-long toward the gigantic Scorpion, and the huge monster raised its tail in an attempt to slash Phaeton with its stinger. Fear-struck, the boy dropped the reins completely, and the unchecked horses galloped downwards.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">The horses bolted down, then up, then down again, burning and freezing the earth and sky. Zeus, the king of the gods, heard the cries from his suppliants, praying at the temples and looked out from Mt. Olympus. Seeing a stranger in Helios’ chariot, he launched a thunderbolt. There was deafening crash as the lightening shattered the chariot, and Phaeton fell wrapped in sizzling flames. The horses of the sun, now driverless, broke free of their harness, bolted and headed back to their stables on the Mountain of the Sun.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=129&u=15712164" rel="nofollow" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><img alt="" src="http://i21.servimg.com/u/f21/15/71/21/64/n-r00010.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span></a></div></div><span style="font-size: 9px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">(“The Fall of Phaeton” Peter Paul Rubens, 1605)</span></i></div></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=130&u=15712164" rel="nofollow" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><img alt="" src="http://i21.servimg.com/u/f21/15/71/21/64/sebast10.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span></a></div></div><span style="font-size: 9px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">(“Fall of Phaeton” by Sebastiano Ricci 1703/04)</span></i></div></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">The ill-fated Phaeton dropped like a falling star and plunged into the river Eridanos. His sisters, the Heliades, gathered on the banks of the river, and in their mourning were transformed into amber-teared poplar trees. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=131&u=15712164" rel="nofollow" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><img alt="" src="http://i21.servimg.com/u/f21/15/71/21/64/tito_s10.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span></a></div></div><span style="font-size: 9px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">(“The Sisters of Phaeton” Tito di Santi for the Studiolo, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, 1572)</span></i></div></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">“Helios, mad with grief, his bright sheen subdued as in the gloom of an eclipse, loathing himself, the light, the day, gives way to his grief, and then with grief turning to rage denies his duty to the world. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">'</span><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Enough,' he cries. 'Since time began my lot has brought no rest, no respite.</span></i></div><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">I resent this toil, unending toil, unhonoured drudgery. Let someone else take out</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">my chariot that bears my sunbeams, or if no one will, and all the gods confess they can’t, let Jove (Zeus) drive it, and as he wrestles with the reins,</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">there’ll be a while at least when he won’t wield his bolt to rob a father of his son; and when he’s tried the fiery-footed team and learnt their strength, he’ll know no one should die for failing to control them expertly.'</span></i></span></div></i><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Then, all the deities surround Helios and beg and beseech him not to shroud</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">the world in darkness. Zeus, indeed, defends his fiery bolt and adds his royal</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">threats. So Helios took in hand his maddened team, still terrified, and whipped them savagely, whipped them and cursed them for their guilt that they destroyed his son, their master that dire day.” (</span><span style="font-size: 9px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Ovid – “Metamorphoses</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">After his death, Phaeton was placed among the stars as the constellation </span><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Auriga</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"> (the charioteer), or else transformed into the god of the star the Greeks called Phaeton – the planet Jupiter or Saturn. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">His devoted friend (some claim lover), Kyknos, who dove repeatedly into the river Eridanos, attempting to retrieve his body, was turned into a swan (a bird sacred to Helios) by the gods in an attempt to relieve his grief. (You can see his swan’s image in “The Sisters of Phaeton” above.)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Ledoux’s portrayal of the doomed youth, Phaeton and the centerpiece of the scarf:</span></div><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=132&u=15712164" rel="nofollow" style="color: #eb9500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i21.servimg.com/u/f21/15/71/21/64/phaeto16.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a></div><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Obviously, he’s chosen to portray the ill-fated Phaeton prior to his disastrous destiny and fiery death. He is still in control of the horses of the sun at this point, but, sadly, we know the fate that awaits him. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">And, in closing, two of the four lovely corner details - much more docile horses, who, no doubt, would be happy to pull a phaeton through a Paris park on a tranquil day and avoid the fate of Phaeton and his ferocious team.</span></div><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=133&u=15712164" rel="nofollow" style="color: #eb9500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i21.servimg.com/u/f21/15/71/21/64/phaeto17.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a></div><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=134&u=15712164" rel="nofollow" style="color: #eb9500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i21.servimg.com/u/f21/15/71/21/64/phaeto18.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a></div></span>Birkinmaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635913931819611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8072732863881172189.post-39336706665038567702011-02-20T16:07:00.004+01:002011-07-05T13:20:53.823+02:00HUBERT DE WATRIGANT III Plaza de Toros 1993<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">PLAZA DE TOROS<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />First Issue: 1993<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Catalogued: 3B</span></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Not only is <b>Hubert de Watrigant</b> a brilliant equestrian painter but he is also a connoisseur of the world of <i>tauromaquia</i>, the art related to bulls and bullfighting as we can see in many of his paintings:</span></span></span></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">In </span></span></span><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Plaza de Toros</span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"> he depicts the traditional elements of a classical <i>Corrida de Toros.</i> The scarf is designed around a broad circle which represents the bullring (<i>La Plaza</i>). In the very center we can see the entourage of authorities (<i>alguaciles</i>) who officially open the corrida, the <i>montera </i>(matador's hat)<i> </i> two pairs of </span></span></span><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">banderillas</span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"> and a Matador jacket (</span></span></span><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">la chaquetilla</span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">). </span></span></span></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">This is the main piece of the </span></span></span><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Traje de Luces</span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"> (Suit of Lights) called so for the reflections produced by the thousands of hand embroidered sequins and gold thread. A suit of lights can cost over 4000 Euros and some of the best known <i>toreros</i> wear it only once. Until the 18th century it was made of suede but since then is made of silk and adorned with gold for the matadors and silver for the <i>banderilleros</i>, the hat called montera, is made of astrakhan and lined in taffeta. T</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">his is a detail picture of the back of a <i>chaquetilla</i>:</span></div><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Since the <i>Traje de Luces</i> is entirely hand made by accomplished artisans, it's not wonder that it inspired fashion designers like <i>Galliano, Dior, Gaultier, Lacroix,</i> etc:</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"><div class="postbody" style="clear: both; color: #292121; float: right; line-height: 1.48em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 668px;"><div class="content" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 3em; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="signature_div" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Bullfighting and art have always walked hand in hand. The visual intensity of bullfighting has greatly fascinated plastic artist like </span></span></span><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Goya, Picasso, Dalí or Miró:</span></span></span></i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Several contemporary photographers have also gotten inspiration from bullfighting, like the French photographer </span></span></span><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Josephine Douet</span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"> in her wonderful series on the handsome Spanish matador <i>José María Manzanares</i>:</span></span></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Back to the silk, we can see other characters depicted on the scarf, like the <i>Mozo de Mulas, Picador </i>and<i> Rejoneador</i> (shown in the next pictures). Around the central motive, there are <i>toreros</i> performing different <i>pases</i>, meaning different figures of bullfighting art: <i>Verónica, Pase de Pecho, Natural</i>, etc. In the corners we can find four <i>alamares</i>, traditional decorations on a classic <i>Traje de Luces</i>.</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">HAUTE LICE 1969</span></strong></span></div><div style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">Philippe Ledoux</span></b></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">Catalogued: 3C</span></b></span></div></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; line-height: 23px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Haute Lice </i>(pronounced ho-t-li-s) translates to high warp and applies to the process of weaving rather than to a tapestry itself.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In the <i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">haute lice </i>manner, the warp is vertical, and the weaver stands behind it while weaving in the figures (or the woof). In the opposite method, <i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">basse lice </i>(low warp), the warp is horizontal, and the weaver works in the pattern from above. In the <i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">haute lice </i>method, he works from the wrong side of the tapestry (but in the basse lice, it is worked from the right side.) The work of the former method is slower, more difficult and, therefore, more expensive to produce and is considered of a “higher order.” </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">These tapestries, which were used as elaborate wall and floor coverings, have their beginnings in the Middle Ages, and the most famous were known as the “Tapestries of Arras,” which were worked exclusively in the high warp method – <i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">haute lice </i>- and often included the addition of gold or metallic threads.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">From Les Tapis de Haute-Lice (Galerie Girard, Lyon, France, which still produces these tapestries today, worked on a high warp):</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“<i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">It was during the Crusades that Europeans discovered “hairy” carpets in the Near East. The Europeans endeavored to create their own versions and to compensate for economic losses sustained as a result of importations.</i></div><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></i><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">From the early 17th century, orientalizing styles are superseded by carpets from the Savonnerie Workshops (cotton is used for both the warp and the woof), and in the 18th century, by those of Aubusson and Beauvais (a combination of cotton used for the warp and wool and/or silk velvet for the woof). As status symbols and statements of good taste, these carpets were for the privileged kings and gentry, but they spread throughout Europe and the West: Spain in the Golden Age; Great Britain and its Moorfields, Exeter and Axminster carpets; America, Eastern Europe, Ireland, Scotland, Austria, the Netherlands and its Deventer workshops; Tournai in Belgium, etc. And in the last two centuries, designs by William Morris, Walter Grane, Charles Mackintosh, V. Horta, J. Olbrich, Frank Lloyd Wright, Sonia Delaunay, Picasso, Starck, Hockney and Harding.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Towards the end of the 20th century, the Aubusson workshops, the last great manufacturers, experienced ever greater difficulty producing and, even more so, selling the last Savonneries, as the cost of labor in the West had priced them out of the market. The last entrepreneurs “burned their boats,” setting up shop where labor was plentiful, qualified, inexpensive and skilled in the old ways.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In Ledoux’s little masterpiece, we see the artisan or <i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">licier</i> at work on his high warp frame in the center of the scarf, and he closely resembles this drawing I found. He’s working from the wrong side of the tapestry, and you can see the various shuttles hanging from the weaving he’s completed, each of which used to weave a different color into the woof.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">The center ground is a representation of the actual cotton warp – the basis and foundation for the weaving, and the four border panels represent various tapestries in production. I can’t identify them, but I would imagine that an historical tapestry expert could, as I’m sure that Ledoux probably used famous examples as his inspiration. Interestingly enough, Ledoux also incorporated the actual date of the design in Roman numerals in the center plaque - 1969.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">The right panel represents a hunt scene, and a rather violent one at that. Hounds have chased an unfortunate stag into a river, and one is leaping at the stag’s throat, while another pack of hounds bays on the riverbank, and huntsmen blow their horns, encouraging the dogs on. Servants push off the bank in a dugout boat, probably to transport the bloody prize back to their lords, who eagerly await a feast of fresh venison.</div><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">The left panel is my favorite of the four. The work in progress seems to be Neoclassical in theme due to the Greek temple with Doric columns in the background. </span></span></div><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=112&u=15712164" rel="nofollow" style="color: #eb9500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i71.servimg.com/u/f71/15/71/21/64/haute_21.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">To the right, we see the proprietress of the workshop accepting payment for the work in progress (an installment plan, no doubt.) She already has a sizable pile of gold coins under her left hand, but she has managed to extract one more from the nobleman’s purse, which rests on her counter. From the look on his face, he seems to be a bit dismayed by the process, akin to a modern day DH paying at Hermes, no doubt!</span></span></div><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=113&u=15712164" rel="nofollow" style="color: #eb9500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i71.servimg.com/u/f71/15/71/21/64/haute_22.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">I’m puzzled by the four figures in the various corners. At first, I thought they were probably famous artisans of the time, but the two in the lower bottom corners seem to be classical sculptures – a boy with a dog jumping at his side and in the opposite corner, a womanly figure, holding a crown in her hand, with a putto, or maybe just a child, at her side and a swan at her feet on the left. Perhaps she is an allegory for Mother France or possibly a reference to the famous Leda of Greek myth. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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Notice the putti, particularly the one bearing the crown in the first painting below.)</span></span></div><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=116&u=15712164" rel="nofollow" style="color: #eb9500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i71.servimg.com/u/f71/15/71/21/64/leda_b10.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a></div><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=117&u=15712164" rel="nofollow" style="color: #eb9500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i71.servimg.com/u/f71/15/71/21/64/leda_b11.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a></div><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">The two female figures in the top corners appear to be in medieval costume. The one in the upper right is expecting, holding her hand over her pregnant stomach. Perhaps they are patrons or artisans themselves. Unfortunately, they remain a puzzle to me.</span></span></div><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=118&u=15712164" rel="nofollow" style="color: #eb9500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i71.servimg.com/u/f71/15/71/21/64/haute_25.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a></div><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=119&u=15712164" rel="nofollow" style="color: #eb9500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i71.servimg.com/u/f71/15/71/21/64/haute_26.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a></div><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">What doesn't puzzle me, however, is the beauty and artistry, as well as the historical detail of this scarf. Ledoux continues to amaze me! He is truly a stellar example of Hermes at its zenith.</span></span></div></span></div>Birkinmaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635913931819611noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8072732863881172189.post-9369088598075203902011-01-30T19:36:00.004+01:002014-07-28T21:22:53.935+02:00HUBERT DE WATRIGANT II. Le Carnaval de Venise 1993/Fetes Venitiennes 1999<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;"><u>January is practically over and Carnaval is coming!</u></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Carnevale, also known as carnival or mardi gras, is celebrated in Italy and many places around the world 40 days before Easter, a final party before Ash Wednesday and Lent. Could it be a better time to review this scarf? </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Both scarves share the same design by Hubert de Watrigan on </span></span><a href="http://63gramos.blogspot.com/2011/01/jacquard-scarves.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Jacquard Silk</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">, the first of them, </span></span><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Le Carnaval de Venise</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"> is from 1993 while the second one, </span></span><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Fetes Venitiennes</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"> was issued in 1999. The Carnevale Comitee of Venice threatened to sue Hermès for the use of the name <i>"Le Carnaval de Venise"</i>, forcing them to change the name of the scarf to <i>"Fetes Venitiennes". </i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;"></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">At the center, the design features a group of passerbyes dressed in period finery admiring a lovely view of San Marco Basilica and Campanile, both in Piazza San Marco, around this beautiful settecento scene, there are groups of people dressed in carnaval costumes, typically inspired in La Commedia dell'Arte masks: Arlecchino, Bauta, Capitano, Brigella, Pulcinella... see <a href="http://63gramos.blogspot.com/2011/01/la-comedie-italienne-philippe-ledoux.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">La Comedie Italienne</span></a> if you want to learn more about it.</span></span></div>
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<div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Hubert de Watrigant was born in 1954 and brought up in South West France where his father bred and trained racehorses. He inherited natural artistic talent from his maternal great grandmother, a landscape artist in the nineteenth century, and his paternal great uncle.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />The de Watrigant family had an inbred passion for horses and it was natural, therefore, that his artistic career should begin by sketching horses in his father's stables. At school he drew ceaselessly in the margins of his sketchbooks.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />On leaving school he joined the Army to serve his year of National Service. He then moved to Paris and began to earn a living through various different jobs, although he continued to draw and paint in his spare time, enabling him to exhibit in various small shows. In 1976 de Watrigant decided to become a full-time professional artist, holding his first one-man exhibition at Maisons-Lafitte. In 1977 he entered Les Sept Collines de Rome exhibition. He won first prize.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />De Watrigant uses a wide range of materials including charcoal, pastels, watercolour and oils and works on many different surfaces. His draughtsmanship is outstanding and he has a remarkable ability to capture both the ambience of his subjects and the drama of a fleeting moment.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Influences on de Watrigant's work include Delacroix, Géricault, and principally, René Princeteau, the first teacher of Toulouse-Lautrec, who de Watrigant admires for his fine draughtsmanship.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />His career was helped at the start by his family contacts in the racing world, but the quality of his work was such that he soon became recognized as one of France's leading equestrian artists. As testament to his talent his work now features in numerous private and public collections in England, Japan and the Emirates. Private collectors include Her Majesty The Queen, as well as many of the leading connoisseurs of equestrian art, including Baron Guy de Rothschild, the late Stavros Niarchos and the late Daniel Wildenstein. In America he has been commissioned by a number of stud farms including Spendthrift Farm, Gainesway and Calumet.</i></div><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During so many years of collaboration, Watrigant has designed several scarves for La Maison, here you are a complete list of his works that I'll be presenting in the next weeks:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">You may also be interested in learn more about Les Haras Nationaux, this is its site:</span></span></span><a href="http://www.haras-nationaux.fr/" style="color: #eb9500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.haras-nationaux.fr/</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next week, I am presenting a new profile: </span><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Carnaval de Venise (Fetes Venitiennes) </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1993, by the same author, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">feel free to email me any pictures of this scarf you would like me to post.</span>Birkinmaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635913931819611noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8072732863881172189.post-46358296607933312552011-01-14T18:29:00.007+01:002011-02-27T13:58:50.561+01:00FRANCOISE DE LA PERRIERE II Traineaux et Glissades 1965<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;">TRAINEAUX ET GLISSADES</span></span><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Francoise de la Perriere<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Original issue: 1965<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Catalogued: 3D<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=575&u=15715137" style="color: #eb9500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i31.servimg.com/u/f31/15/71/51/37/traine10.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">This scarf was bought by my husband during a trip he made to Spain with a client in 2001.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The story is that he bought two scarves and as he thought it was absurd to carry two orange boxes all the way to Argentina, he made both of them put in one only box... the shop assistant asked him whether he was sure and he of course insisted... during almost 10 years it shared box with Brides de Gala. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Este pañuelo lo compró mi marido en un viaje que hizo a España con un cliente en 2001.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><div style="text-align: justify;">La anécdota es que compró dos pañuelos y como le parecía absurdo acarrear las dos cajas, los hizo meter en una sola... la vendedora le preguntó si estaba seguro y él insistió... durante casi 10 años compartió caja con Brides de Gala.</div></span></span><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><div style="text-align: justify;">It's a beautiful scarf which depicts a winter scene, thus its name: Sledges and Skates. This color in particular, white, gray and pale blue, intensifies the sensation of winter, in fact it's one of the iconic scarves related to winter themes together with <i>Les Plaisirs du Froid</i> (Hugo Grygkar), <i>L'Hiver</i> (Philippe Ledoux), <i>L'Hiver en Poste</i> (Philippe Ledoux), <i>Noel au 24 Faubourg</i> (Dimitri Rybalchenko), etc.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Es un maravilloso pañuelo que representa una escena invernal, de ahí su nombre: Trineos y Patines. Este color en particular, blanco, gris y azul intensifican la sensación de invierno, de hecho se trata de uno de los pañuelos-icono en cuanto a temas invernales junto a Les Plaisirs du Froid (Hugo Grygkar), L'Hiver (Philippe Ledoux), L'Hiver en Poste (Philippe Ledoux), Noel au 24 Faubourg (Dimitri Rybalchenko).</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">As an example of the peculiarity of the use of color, let me introduce the same scarf in a different shade, it's surprising that it's the same design, isn't it? this is the magic of Hermès:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Como ejemplo de la peculiaridad en el uso del color, os presento el mismo pañuelo en una tonalidad diferente, sorprende que se trate del mismo diseño pero esa es la magia de Hermès:</span></div></span><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=576&u=15715137" style="color: #eb9500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i31.servimg.com/u/f31/15/71/51/37/captur11.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Some detail shots in a different color way:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Algunas fotos de detalle en diferente color:</span></span><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=578&u=15715137" style="color: #eb9500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i31.servimg.com/u/f31/15/71/51/37/traine12.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=579&u=15715137" style="color: #eb9500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i31.servimg.com/u/f31/15/71/51/37/traine13.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Francoise de la Perriere is one of the best known Hermès illustrators, we own to him countless designs greatly popular like </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><i>Bride de Cour</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> (1969), </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><i>Cannes et Pommeaux</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> (1985), </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><i>Champignons</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> (together with Gavarni 1959), </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><i>Costumes Civils Actuels</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> (1995), </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><i>Les Coupes </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">(1971), </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><i>Cuirs du Desert</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> (1988) reissued in SS 2011, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><i>Early America</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> (1980), o the super famous and super faked </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><i>Voitures a Transformation</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> (1965)</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"></span><br />
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</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Francoise de la Perriere es uno de los más conocidos ilustradores de Hermés a lo largo de su historia autor de innumerables diseños enormemente populares: Bride de Cour (1969), Cannes et Pommeaux (1985), Champignons (junto a Gavarni 1959), Costumes Civils Actuels (1995), Les Coupes (1971), Cuirs du Desert (1988) reeditado en la colección Primamera Verano 2011, Early America (1980), o el super famoso y copiado Voitures a Transformation (1965)</span></div></span></span>Birkinmaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635913931819611noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8072732863881172189.post-66179005807200468642011-01-12T19:22:00.009+01:002011-07-26T19:30:00.970+02:00PHILIPPE LEDOUX II La Comedie Italienne 1962<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">LA COMEDIE ITALIENNE</span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">Philippe Ledoux </span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">Jacquard silk</span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">First Issue: 1962</span></span></span></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Let me introduce the beautiful vintage jacquard scarf </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">La Comedie Italienne</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> by Philippe Ledoux in 1962. </span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Dear <b>Lily </b>recently got a beautiful issue of this scarf in olive green, gold and pink, I thought it would be nice to include some of her pictures as a comparison, many congratulations, my friend, for a great find!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<b><div style="margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: auto; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 668px;"><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=634&u=15715137" style="color: #eb9500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i71.servimg.com/u/f71/15/71/51/37/joseph10.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a></div><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752-1834) revolutionised the weaving industry in France and is regarded by many as a forefather of the mechanical computer. The Jacquard Loom is a mechanical loom that simplifies the process of manufacturing textiles with complex patterns such as brocade, damask and matelasse. The loom is controlled by punchcards with punched holes, with each row of holes corresponding to one row of the design. Multiple rows of holes are punched on each card, and many cards that compose the design are strung together in a fan folded loop.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />His invention was fiercely opposed by the silk weavers of the day who feared that its introduction, owing to the savings of labour, would deprive them of their livlihood. However its advantages secured its general adoption and by 1812 there were 11,000 Jacquard looms in use in France. The loom design was declared public property in 1806 and Jacquard was rewarded with a pension and royalty on each machine.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=635&u=15715137" style="color: #eb9500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i71.servimg.com/u/f71/15/71/51/37/jacqua10.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Hermès normally use standard silk twill for their 90cm. Just occasionally they would produce a batch of special designs using jacquard silk, gradually less frequently right up to the end of the 1990's. The jacquard used would usually have some association with the design of the scarf. Probably the best known is the "Bee" jacquard used on the Napoleon scarf.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Hermès scarves on jacquard silk are much valued by collectors and will always fetch a higher price than normal twill versions of the scarf. Some designs have been produced on several different jacquard designs, and all re-issues are now on normal twill silk. The jacquard is also a useful "watermark", virtually guaranteeing authenticity. It appears as a slightly raised, repeating pattern over which the scarf design is printed.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Below are some examples of the most commonly seen jacquards....</b></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><strong>"Bees"</strong> - Napoleon 1995.................... <strong>"Firework"</strong> - Les Fetes du Roi Soleil 1994</div><div align="center" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><img height="294" src="http://i.ebayimg.com/01/!!d2tYtwB(M~$(KGrHgoH-DUEjlLlzqhLBKn93rMo+!~~_2.JPG" style="height: 256px; width: 267px;" width="286" /> <img height="409" src="http://i.ebayimg.com/07/!!d2tYu!B(M~$(KGrHgoH-CQEkJ5gdrdhBKn95J)!Zg~~_2.JPG" style="height: 255px; width: 248px;" width="355" /></div><div align="center" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><strong>"Kangaroo and Anchor"</strong> - Le Geographe 1992......."<strong>Holly Berry"</strong> - Neige d'Antan 2001.</div><div align="center" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><img height="420" src="http://i.ebayimg.com/12/!!d2tYug!(M~$(KGrHgoH-DoEjlLlzR(4BKn96LRrqw~~_2.JPG" style="height: 257px; width: 263px;" width="368" /> <img height="342" src="http://i.ebayimg.com/01/!!d2tYv!BHM~$(KGrHgoH-DgEjlLl1CLoBKn97RVt3!~~_2.JPG" style="height: 258px; width: 251px;" width="324" /></div><div align="center" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><strong>"H Monogram"</strong> - La Cle des Champs - 1995.... <strong>"Lute and Mandolin"</strong> - Fetes Venitiennes 1999.</div><div align="center" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><img height="212" src="http://i.ebayimg.com/14/!!d2tYvQ!nM~$(KGrHgoH-CUEjlLlvzuyBKn98jU1oQ~~_2.JPG" style="height: 219px; width: 263px;" width="257" /> <img height="265" src="http://i.ebayimg.com/05/!!d2tYww!3M~$(KGrHgoH-CcEjlLl4lRpBKn99p)s+g~~_2.JPG" style="height: 218px; width: 255px;" width="285" /></div><div align="center" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><strong>"Skaters"</strong> - Joies d'Hiver 1992............ <strong>"Galleon"</strong> - Christophe Colomb 1992.</div><div align="center" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><img height="278" src="http://i.ebayimg.com/13/!!d2tY)g!(M~$(KGrHgoH-CcEjlLlyiyvBKn9-4Dh9w~~_2.JPG" style="height: 249px; width: 264px;" width="293" /> <img height="389" src="http://i.ebayimg.com/09/!!d2tYz!!3M~$(KGrHgoH-D8EjlLl)cYWBKn-!!Zzvg~~_2.JPG" style="height: 250px; width: 258px;" width="369" /></div><div align="center" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><strong>"Star"</strong> - Cosmos 1964.......................... <strong> "Ginko Biloba"</strong> - Diamyo Princes du Soleil 1991.</div><div align="center" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><img height="265" src="http://i.ebayimg.com/04/!!d2tYzwB3M~$(KGrHgoH-C0EjlLlu15ZBKn-!+Ylsw~~_2.JPG" style="height: 226px; width: 262px;" width="292" /> <img height="366" src="http://i.ebayimg.com/14/!!d2tY0QCHM~$(KGrHgoH-DYEjlLl3iGJBKn-BooJUg~~_2.JPG" style="height: 226px; width: 265px;" width="369" /></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><strong><br />
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</span> </strong></div><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Bees"</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> - Napoleon 1963, Amours, Herbier de Gavarnie 1994.</span></div><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Chicken Wire"</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> - Les Insectes 1959, Grand Vent 1965.</span></div><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Feather"</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> - Races des Coqs</span></div><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Firework"</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> - Feux d'Artifice 1987, Fetes du Roi Soleil 1994, Jouvence 1968</span></div><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Fish Scale"</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> - Romantique, Fauconnerie Royale Deduit 1962.</span></div><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Galleon"</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> - Christophe Colomb 1992.</span></div><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Ginko Biloba"</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> - Diamyo 1991.</span></div><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"H-Monogram"</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> - La Cle des Champs, Louveterie Royale 1962, Romantique.</span></div><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Kites"</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> - special edition of Amours</span></div><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Leopard Spots"</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> - Kenya 1988.</span></div><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Lute and Mandolin"</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> - Fetes Venitiennes 1999, La Comedie Italienne 1962.</span></div><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Peacocks"</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> - Ciel Byzantine 1997.</span></div><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Prancing Horse"</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> - l'Instruction du Roy 1993.</span></div><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Skaters"</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> - Joies d'Hiver 1992.</span></div><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Stars"</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> - Cosmos 1964, En Piste 1998, Emblemes de l'Europe 1993.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13px;"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Treble Key"</span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> - Orguaphone et Autre Mecaniques 1996.</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 13px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some of the data of this review are credit: Geoff Clarke</span></span></div>Birkinmaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635913931819611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8072732863881172189.post-67541148750708220512011-01-12T18:19:00.008+01:002011-02-27T13:57:33.328+01:00PHILIPPE LEDOUX I Napoleon 1963<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">This is my beautiful <i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Napoleon</i> by Philippe Ledoux:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">(Este es mi precioso Napoleón por Philippe Ledoux:)</span></span></i><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=48&u=15715137" style="color: #eb9500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i21.servimg.com/u/f21/15/71/51/37/napole10.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />A detail of the central motive, the colors are incredible, antique green and burgundy, you could almost feel the touch of ancient velvet!!!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Philippe Ledoux </i>made an extraordinary research when designing <i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Napoleon</i>, all four the corners are inspired on different paintings of the historical figure:<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">(Philippe Ledoux hizo una extraordinaria investigación cuando diseñó Napoleón, las cuatro esquinas están inspiradas en diferentes retratos de la figura histórica:)</span></i></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><u style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Napoleon was wounded in Rattisbone:</u><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">(Napoleón herido en Ratisbona:)</span></i></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=50&u=15715137" style="color: #eb9500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i21.servimg.com/u/f21/15/71/51/37/napole12.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><u style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">This is the original painting by Pierre Gautherot:</u><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">(Esta es la pintura original de Pierre Gautherot)</span></i></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=51&u=15715137" style="color: #eb9500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i21.servimg.com/u/f21/15/71/51/37/napole13.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><u>The upper left corner is the most easy to recognize as it's based on a famous painting by JL.David depicting the Pass of St.Bernard:</u></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></span><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">(La esquina superior izquierda es la más fácil de reconocer porque está basada en una famosa pintura de JL David que muestra el Paso de San Bernard)</span></i></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none;"><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=54&u=15715137" style="color: #eb9500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i21.servimg.com/u/f21/15/71/51/37/napole16.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Original painting:</span></span></u></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">(Pintura origina</span></i></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">l:)</span></i></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><u>The last corner (upper right) is the trickiest to recognize, it represents Napoleon proclaimed Premier Consul:</u></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">(La última esquina (superior derecha) es la más difícil de reconocer, representa a Napoleón proclamado Primer Consul:)</span></i></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none;"><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=56&u=15715137" style="color: #eb9500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i21.servimg.com/u/f21/15/71/51/37/napole18.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><u style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Ledoux got his inspiration from a tapestry, Tapisserie des Gobelins: </u></span></u></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">Ledoux encontró su inspiración en un tapiz de Tapicería de los Gobelinos:</span></i></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=57&u=15715137" style="color: #eb9500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i21.servimg.com/u/f21/15/71/51/37/bonapa10.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a></span></u></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><u><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><u>At the center of the scarf</u>, Ledoux depicts the arrival at Notre Dame Dec 2, 1804 after burning the Book of Rites: </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">En el centro del pañuelo, Ledoux representa la llegada a Notre Dame el 2 de diciembre de 1804 después de quemar el Libro de los Ritos:</span></span></i></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><u>Symbols and arms in Napoleon:</u></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The Bees</strong>: the golden bees called cicadas, are symbol of immortality and resurrection, they were chosen to link the new dynasty to the very origins of France as cicadas were discovered in the tomb of Childeric I, founder of Merovingian dynasty in 457. Bees are the oldest symbol for French monarchy.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The uniforms in the center, the swords</strong>: on the left there is the First Consul dresscoat, on the right, Napoleon's <i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Chasseurs à Cheval</i> uniform. Further down the design, the First Consul and Coronation swords can be seen, as well as two sabres from the Egyptian campaign.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The chain of the Légion d'honneur</strong>: it took its name from ancient Rome. The chain of the Légion d'honneur, reserved for the emperor, princes of the imperial family and grand dignitaries, is composed of a gold chain made of 16 trophies linked by eagles with the ribbon and cross of the order at their necks. This chain is bordered on either side by a small chain alternating stars and bees. The central motif, the Napoleonic N, is encircled by a laurel wreath and supports the cross of the Légion d'honneur, a five-pointed pommel-pointed star, in white enamel. In the centre is the laurel-crowned profile of the emperor, the whole surmounted by the imperial crown.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The Eagle</strong>: it's a symbol of imperial Rome, Jupiter's bird, and was associated from the earliest antiquity with military victory. The day after his coronation, Napoleon had an eagle placed at the top of the shaft of every flag in the Napoleonic army.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">I've tried to discover the real meaning of the number 25 displayed four times on the scarf. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">I should think that it has something to do with freemasonry, 25 is a powerful number for old freemasons and it's possible that Ledoux belonged to some of this societies in France as Napoleon did.</span><br />
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</div></div>Birkinmaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635913931819611noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8072732863881172189.post-67128555346085541212011-01-12T17:22:00.012+01:002011-02-27T13:58:28.456+01:00FRANCOISE DE LA PERRIERE I Etriers 1964<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0000ee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">ETRIERS:</span><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Francoise de la Perriere<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Original issue: 1964<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Reissues: 1990, 1997, 1999 y 2009<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Catalogued: 3D<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=594&u=15715137" style="color: #eb9500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i31.servimg.com/u/f31/15/71/51/37/etrier10.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />This was my very first Hermès scarf which means that this was the very first time that, like Becquer (the Spanish poet) "dumb, absorbed and knelt down" I went into a Hermès store with my husband, who watched me with amusement. It was the beginning of the 90's and we were about to move to South America. Little did I know then that my life would have a digression of so many years in the Southern Hemisphere. <br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />I chose this color with the idea of pairing it with a blue silk dress that was a favorite of mine, I didn't have idea of how to choose a scarf with the right criteria and bought it by impulse. I've seen Etriers in many colorations both in neutral and in bright shades in the course of time but that specific combinations is still very dear and special to me.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Etriers is one of the best known, most faked and best seller from its first issue, a real Hermès classic.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Some months ago, there was a very interesting post on a very well know forum in the Internet, it was a young lady who was considering Etriers as her first purchase, she regarded the design as incredibly modern... yes! the classic is modern.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Se trata de mi primer pañuelo Hermès y por lo tanto de la primera vez que, como Bécquer, muda y absorta y de rodillas, entré en una tienda de la firma en Madrid acompañada por mi marido que me observaba divertido.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Eran finales de los años noventa y estábamos a punto de mudarnos a Sudamérica. No tenía idea entonces de que mi vida tendría un paréntesis en el Hemisferio Sur de 11 largos años.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Elegí este color para combinar con un vestido de seda azul sin tener demasiada idea de cómo elegir un pañuelo con criterio. Con los años he visto numerosas combinaciones tanto en colores neutros como increíblemente coloristas. Etriers es uno de los pañuelos más conocidos, más copiados y más vendidos por Hermès desde su aparición. Un auténtico clásico.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Hace apenas unas semanas hubo una entrada muy interesante en el tPF, era una niña de 15 años que estaba guardando dinero para comprarse precisamente este pañuelo, decía que le resultaba muy juvenil. Lo clásico es moderno.</span></span><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Here you are a picture of the scarf stories booklet from 1999:<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=595&u=15715137" style="color: #eb9500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i31.servimg.com/u/f31/15/71/51/37/etrier11.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">"El pañuelo muestra, de un modo poético, varios estribos de la colección de Émile Hermès (1871-1951), nieto del fundador de la firma. Muestra un estribo de costado en plata (Sudamérica, siglo XIX), otro esculpido en madera con acabado de plata (Perú, siglo XVIII), un par de estribos hechos de bronce (Medio Este) y un estribo de cobre (Francia y España, siglo XVIII). Semejantes galas estaban destinadas a embellecer los pies de miembros tanto masculinos como femeninos de la nobleza cuando montaban. A pesar de su variedad, la ingenuidad y la inventiva belleza de los detalles, estas hermosas piezas rinden tributo al saber hacer de los artesanos que ponían su talento al servicio del noble arte ecuestre."</span></span><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Of course, I couldn't resist the temptation to for another color ways:<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Por supuesto, no me pude resistir a adquirir otros colores:</span></span><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; 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<div style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0000ee;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"></span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0000ee;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><u></u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">BRIDES DE GALA:</span><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Hugo Grygkar<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />First issued: 1957<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Reissues: Several from its first issue, around 70 different recolorations.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Catalogued: 6D<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=584&u=15715137" style="color: #eb9500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i31.servimg.com/u/f31/15/71/51/37/brides11.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />This is the best seller Hermès scarf ever and also the most faked one. It's been produced in many different versions: Carrè 90, silk jersey, cashmere 140, mousseline 140, dip dye 140, twily, pointu, gavroche, etc.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Se trata del pañuelo Hermès más vendido de todos los tiempos y también del más copiado.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />A lo largo de los años se ha producido en diferentes versiones: Carré 90, Carré fluido (jersey de seda), Cashmere GM 140, Mousseline 140, Carrè 140 dip dye, twilly, pointu, gavroche, etc.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Estas son las fotos de algunas versiones:</span></span><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Twill silk carré:<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Carré twill de seda 90 cm</span></span>:<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=582&u=15715137" style="color: #eb9500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i31.servimg.com/u/f31/15/71/51/37/brides10.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Silk jersey:<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=583&u=15715137" style="color: #eb9500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i31.servimg.com/u/f31/15/71/51/37/captur14.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><i>Brides de Gala Dip Dy</i>e (photo credit: Hermès.com)<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=585&u=15715137" style="color: #eb9500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i31.servimg.com/u/f31/15/71/51/37/brides12.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><i>Brides de Gala dip dye</i> Collection 2010, size 140. It's a dip dye version, an innovative technique and the result of an artisanal procedure, the carré is immersed in a dye bath that covers it with a colour filter and gives it the velvety feel of washed silk.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Its aged, patinated appearance and irregularities in colour are the expression of its charm and unique identity. Unbelievable as it may be, with this carré, Hermès embraces imperfections!</span><br />
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Es una versión dip dye/surtinte, una innovación técnica y como resultado de un proceso artesanal, se sumerge en un baño de tinte que lo cubre de un filtro de color y le proporciona el tacto aterciopelado de la seda lavada.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Tanto su aspecto envejecido y patinado como sus irregularidades de colores constituyen la expresión de su encanto y de su identidad., una nueva técnica realizada por Hermès que consiste en sumergir el carrè en un baño de tinte, así se consiguen colores de aspecto envejecido y la seda tiene una pátina aterciopelada:</span></span> <br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />AW 2010 collection: (Photo credit: Hermès)<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Colección otoño invierno 2010</span></span>:<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=586&u=15715137" style="color: #eb9500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i31.servimg.com/u/f31/15/71/51/37/hermes10.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Dip dye scarves are a wink from Hermès to the youngest people, the brand presents this new proposal as the perfect match with jeans and casual clothes in very alternative looks:<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Los pañuelos dip dye son un guiño de Hermès a la gente más joven, la marca presenta su nueva propuesta como la perfecta combinación con jeans y ropa casual en looks muy alternativos:</span></span><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=587&u=15715137" style="color: #eb9500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i31.servimg.com/u/f31/15/71/51/37/captur10.png" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Being one of the most distinctive Hermès designs, it's understandable that the brand chose it for one of its most magnificent, impressive and expensive products, <i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"Shiny Brides"</i>, in hand embroidered silk mousseline, collection SS2009:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Siendo uno de los diseños más distintivos de la marca, es comprensible que Hermès lo eligiese para uno de sus modelos más suntuosos e <br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />impresionantes por su rareza y su elevado precio: </span></span><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">"Shiny Brides"</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">, en mouselina de seda bordada (campaña primavera/verano 2009):</span></span><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=588&u=15715137" style="color: #eb9500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i31.servimg.com/u/f31/15/71/51/37/shinyb10.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=589&u=15715137" style="color: #eb9500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i31.servimg.com/u/f31/15/71/51/37/shinyb11.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><i>Brides de Gala</i> is one of the absolute icons of the French brand. Recently, there have come across some new versions that give a new meaning to such classic design, like the version in the exclusive collection for Colette Paris:<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><i>Brides de Gala</i> is uno de los iconos absolutos de la marca francesa. Recientemente han aparecido algunas versiones nuevas que dan un nuevo significado al clásico diseño, como la versión para la exclusiva colección para Colette Paris:</span></span><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=590&u=15715137" style="color: #eb9500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i31.servimg.com/u/f31/15/71/51/37/paris_10.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Even more recently, in the last SS2011 collection, there are new versions of <i>Brides de Gala</i>:<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Aún más recientemente, en la colección primavera verano 2011 hay nuevas versiones de <i>Brides de Gala:</i></span></span><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><i>Brides de Gala en Finesse</i> by Florence Manlik in silk twill (Photo credit Hermès.com):<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=591&u=15715137" style="color: #eb9500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://i31.servimg.com/u/f31/15/71/51/37/captur15.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />This is the Scarf story for this design:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292121; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Para terminar he querido subir la foto de una ilustre coleccionista de pañuelos Hermès, HM la Reina Isabel II de Inglaterra, luciendo un clásico <i>Brides de Gala</i> con su inconfundible estilo:</span></span></span><br />
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