Theatrical Set Designs and other Fripperies, December 18th edition in the MMXXIV winter show . . .
sparking on air on the tip of a baby snowflake as she naps on her mama's points as somewhere in the Amazon where snow never falls there is a sigh and then a clatter . . . one of the abandoned explorer's camps from back when there was an emperor with a bride who loved anything jungle-ey . . . born where there were so many trees you could barely see the sun from the ground and stuck in the big city with a crown on her head . . . out looking for whatever she fancied for her costume balls but afterwards not . . . empresses that wanted frocks from Paris not ones made from giant fronds of fern
Masks from the opera Orlando whose premiere was staged in December 2019 at the Vienna State Opera, Vienna. Rei Kawakubo, designer. Photo credit Kuba Dabrowski for Womens Wear Daily. via wwd.com.
Rendering by an associate of the architect LeRoy Buffington of Pillsbury Hall at the University of Minnesota Minneapolis that was built in 1889. American. Richardson Romanesque. via startribune.com.
Papercut valentine made by a William Kohler in 1879. via skinnerinc.com.
Ice sculpture that was part of the 2017 International Ice Sculpture Festival held in Novosobornaya Square in Tomsk, Russia. Image ©. via riatomsk.ru.
Costume for the character of the Buffoon's Wife from the Ballets Russes 1921 production of Prokofiev's ballet The Tale of the Buffoon. Russian. Cane, stiffened felt and cotton. Mikhail Larionov, designer. via the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Fantasy tiara based on the Yusupov tiara. via Reynard on theroyalforums.com.
Musiciens de Campagne from the court ballet Ballet des Fées des Forêts de Saint Germain. 17th c. French. Daniel Rabel, designer (1578-1637). via bibliodyssey.blogspot.com.
Rendering of the inner sanctuary and ark of Temple Emanu-El, New York. 1927. Clarence Stein, Robert D. Kohn, and Charles Butler, architects. via nyc-architecture.com.
Set design for a March 1940 La Scala production of Giordano's opera Mese Mariano. 20th c. Milan, Italy. Luigi Brilli, designer. via gettyimages.
Playbill for a 1777 performance of Handel's oratorio The Messiah held at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London. Printer not known. via zazzle.com.
Yellow sapphire, diamond and demantoid garnet pendant brooch. ca. 1915. via Facebook.