✨Wack-An-Author!!!✨
Pick a dead classic author from this poll that you'd personally want to punch!! This is all fun in games, I love bullying dead people 💛.
Listen everyone wants to beat up Lovecraft. That's a given, no competition. So he's not here.
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Fenn: Father, this is my paramour, MC.
MC: It's a pleasure to meet you, your majesty.
Louis-Ernest: Please, call me "daddy."
MC:
Fenn:
MC: With all due respect, I must politely decline.
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Wood Engraving Wednesday
THÉO SCHMIED
The French painter and illustrator Pierre Brissaud (1885-1964) was commissioned to produce watercolor illustrations for the 1950 Limited Edition Club (LEC) production of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary. The watercolors were turned over to the workshop of master French wood engraver Théo Schmied (1900-1985) to be reproduced for the edition as these remarkable, multi-block color wood engravings.
Schmied's Swiss-born father François-Louis Schmied (1873-1941), also a wood engraver and formally trained in the book arts, established his Paris workshop in 1910 to produce deluxe, illustrated limited editions. Théo Schmied took over the management of his father's workshop beginning in 1924 and inherited the business after his father's death.
This edition was designed by Francis Meynell of the Nonesuch Press in London, with the text composed in Monotype Ehrhardt at the Curwen Press under the supervision of Ernest Ingham and printed letterpress at the Marchbanks Press in New York on specially-made paper bearing the title of the book as watermark by the Curtis Paper Company of Newark, Delaware. The edition is limited to 1500 copies signed by Pierre Brissaud.
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AKA Inadvisably Drawing Blades
Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (French), La Rixe (The Brawl) 1855
Jan Steen (Dutch), Argument over a Card Game 1640-1679
Andalusian School (19th century), Knife Fight
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You know what would be fun? A spin-off featuring the kings during their study days in Colde
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Grand Duke Ernest Louis of Hesse and his little niece, Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna, 1899. 🥹🤍✨
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Ernest Hemingway – a restless spirit if ever there was one – also took to imagining his ideal trunk. Gaston-Louis Vuitton brought it into being and, in May 1927, delivered the library trunk, a marvel of secret drawers and snug shelves that would henceforth accompany the writer on his travels.
It subsequently disappeared, only to reappear in the basement of The Ritz in Paris, along with the long-lost manuscript of A Moveable Feast, Hemingway’s posthumous masterpiece.
Years later, this intriguing tale was taken up by Nicolas d’Estienne d’Orves, whose short story Sentinels of the Void joined works by Yann Moix, Virginie Despentes and Eliette Abecassis, among others, in the anthology The Trunk, a paean to the celebrated literary spirit of Saint-Germain des Prés and Louis Vuitton’s love of words.
This spirit is revived, just a stone’s throw from Café de Flore, in the Louis Vuitton writing store, where one-off pens, exclusive inks and crystal inkstands mix with the “Writing” collection and the now legendary library trunks.
@somethere in the web
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“Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig was so handsome in his youth!” - Submitted by Anonymous
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