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Beautiful scarf and very clever with the scarf ring.I'm not sure I ended up loving this knot with this design--I was trying to highlight the greens/browns in this scarf, and avoid the orange--but nonetheless, SotD was Duo Cosmique. I suppose it is sort of neat that my chain d'ancre scarf ring appears to "connect" to the rings in the scarf?
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Such lovely examples @Living. I'm especially enthralled with your Bonnes Vibrations and the idea of the Chladni figures. I immediately fell down the Google rabbit hole researching - so fascinating! Thank you for sharing that wonderful scarf.Thank you, @HermesEchidna for such a wonderful intro and all your perspectives on the theme…
I had a lot going on towards the end of last week and had to go MIA here, but wish to thank everyone for all the lovely comments and likes on my posts…
Regarding this week’s theme, I must admit that my brain immediately shuts down at the mere mention of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, but I will attempt to contribute beginning with one of the most obvious examples… Le Laboratoire du Temps
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Continuing with Bonnes Vibrations which was inspired by the acoustic Chladni figures. From the Hermès catalog: “In the eighteenth century, German physicist Ernst Chladni Florend Friedrich, creator of a musical instrument named the Euphone and author of an acoustic treaty, undertook a singular experiment. He took a copper disk, sprinkled it with sand and rubbed the edges using a bow. The vibrations made this a musical instrument and the sound was accompanied by a surprising reaction: the sand was organized in geometric figures, creating art. They were named acoustic Chladni figures.”
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Index Palmarum was inspired by the pages of the Historia Naturalis Palmarum, a 19th-century treatise on palms by the German botanist, ethnographer and explorer Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.
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Cosmograohia Universalis depicts an imaginary landscape full of fantastical architecture and vehicles
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La Maison des Carres shows the behind-the-scenes manufacturing process of an Hermès carré
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Perfect examples @Forever Orange. Happy to be your Planifleurs sisters! It was my SOTD, I'll share a picture a little later.It has been snowy, windy, icy here and lots of bundling up inside, especially when the power went out. Brr...
So archive pix for this week's theme, that I am stretching a bit:
Botanica and world traveling: explorers like Bougainville went out to discover new plants and Planifleurs captures the spirit of that era
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Laboratoire du Temps... need I say more?
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Continuing with explorers of the Pacific ocean and discovering islands and their peoples
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More tomorrow!
Another great post @HermesEchidna. This scar mistress thing - you're a natural!Let us blow some steam off and get moving! Today it is all about machines and transportation. And STEM is only an addition of Art away from being STEAM!
The use of steam as a source of power in the years around 1800 changed both production and tranportation. Steam engines powered large factories, and thus modern Industry, with all it’s flaws and benefits, was the foundation for fast and large scale transportation on land and sea. Trains and steam boats changed the communication and connections and Exchange of people and products all over the world.
This development is celebrated in Philippe Ledoux’ Le Merveilles de la Vapeur with an assortment of steam engines, locomotives etc. This is a special edition with the name of the Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Assurance Company in the middle instead of the name of the design. There are two article on the Carre de Paris blog about the investors and machines mentioned on the scarf, which I recommend.
Philippe Ledoux: Les Merveilles de la Vapeur
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But of course transport is so much more than steamers and train tracks. Several designs have wonderful nautic motives of other kinds of ships and boats - this one even claiming to have all the ships in the world (some of us probably looks more at the border wildlife, but well…)
Aline Honore: Tous le bateaux du monde.
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But let us also see everything with cars, bikes, busses etc - and if we include coaches and carriages the examples are almost limitless!
And of course we also need to look up. Even though space travel has already been mentioned this week, we have the good Old airplanes, airships and balloons - @Jereni and others in here have already modelled great designs with airplanes etc, and here is my historic example ( I Think one of you might already also have postet it, but I forgot who - forgive me)
Loïc Dubigeon: Les Folies du Ciel
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The Technology of transportation is everywhere in Our scarves, and I look so much forward to see all the great examples I know you have in ye olde scarf drawer!
Have a great day!
Fabulous @xincinsin!In the office building where I work, the upper floors house many specialist teams, including some who deal in forensics and assist our police in keeping Singapore safe. No, they don't dissect any bodies here, but this is their HQ.
Just an opener to say that skills such as inductive and deductive reasoning as well as extrapolation are important in STEM. So-called leaps of logic or Eureka! moments are the result of many connections and inferences percolating beneath the surface of our consciousness.
In Mystere au 24, we are invited to view the strange scene in the house with chaos everywhere, tame pets and wild beasts rampaging, a bewildered fox in the chimney, and Did The Kitty Do It?!!! Whodunit indeed (who done what?), filmed in Hermescope! I say it was the guy on the horse outside the house who dunit to my wallet
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Oh wow, your Jardin de Leila au Bloc is lovely @LKBNOLA, and it looks fabulous with your blazer!Good morning! Sharing my SOYD, Jardin de Leila au Bloc, by Francois Houtin, whose training as a landscape architect and garden designer has informed his imaginative and finely drawn etchings of gardens and landscapes. Besides Le Jardin de Leila, Houtin also designed Fantaisie Pittoresque and Jardin des Metamorphoses. If I am not mistaken, there is a fair amount of STEM involved in both architecture and garden design!
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Fabulous @Cookiefiend, and I love it on the striped top. Such a great combo!Good afternoon sweet scarfies!
Woefully behind, but will try to at least catch up!
Currently in Georgia, where it is sunny but chilly and - sadly - I am feeling puny.
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I am kinda sorta of topic - math is most definitely not my strong suit - but my SOTD is beautiful and someone had to employ math and/or science to do this fantastic printing job.
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I empathize @Teaforparrots, I've had a cold since last Friday. I hope you feel better soon! I love this scarf and someday I'll own one. I am an old school pencil user, (no mechanical pencils for me!) I rarely ever use a pen.I have a cold and am not sure when I might be photo ready again, but I wanted to share this scarf. How often in the history of human endeavor has a great invention begun with a pencil sketch?View attachment 5931229
Planifleurs is the perfect mix of geography and botany!Cartography is the study and practice of making and using maps. Cartography combines science, aesthetics, and technique to build on the premise that reality (or an imagined reality) can be modeled in ways that communicate spatial information effectively. (Thanks Wikipedia).
My scarf of the day is Planifleurs. I particularly love this scarf because it reminds me of wonderful trips I've taken both in the US and abroad. When I travel for work or with DH, I almost always plan trips around gardens to visit, even in the winter. I think Christine Henry did a great job charting her planisphere and bringing her aesthetic to this fabulous map!
I didn't do this lovely scarf any favors today with my choice of top, but my first Zoom call was at 6am, so I was proud of myself for getting up and getting dressed. Now that I think about it, I can tie this scarf in to my early call today since I spoke with colleagues from Japan, India, Ireland, and the US!
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Thank you, bunnycat!Thank you Croisette! I was plenty cozy in all that.
What a treasure Croisette! You look fabulous!
Thank you Nomad! I was indeed very cozy.
This is such a dreamy pairing LKB! The florals with houndstooth is fantabulous together. PS- I do not get an autocorrect on fantabulous does this mean it has been accepted as an actual word?
Beautiful pairing Nomad!
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Thank you, fifi!Oh my! Please stay safe! Wonderful examples… I’ve been very intrigued by that CW of Planifleurs… It is fabulous!
Great post! These are all great and very inspiring to “move along” with the theme!
What awesome posts! I always either learn something new or see something new when I see them…And now I suddenly need a Glitch… It ties like a dream!
The perfect winter shawl
A masterpiece!
What a treasure it is! And, I can think of no one better to own this beauty… The colors are amazing
Love these colors! And beautiful patterns, too
I think that various shades of green, including chartreuse suit you so beautifully! This is a gorgeous silk
Please take care and feel better soon! This shawl is mind-blowingly beautiful
Please take care and feel better soon!
OMG that is frightening! I see that your contact with skeletons is more of the silky kind now… LOL
Always love to see you wear this one… Gorgeous!
Love this design in this format and this CW is spectacular
Gaaah! Magnificent! Love this knot!
Many thanks, Maedi ... my winter fav.This shawl is a masterpiece and looks beautiful with your cozy sweater.
Très chic, Jereni!No real theme connection today, just Selle Imaginaire with a camel peacoat, and snow.
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Looks pretty on you, labelo ... clever tied!I'm not sure I ended up loving this knot with this design--I was trying to highlight the greens/browns in this scarf, and avoid the orange--but nonetheless, SotD was Duo Cosmique. I suppose it is sort of neat that my chain d'ancre scarf ring appears to "connect" to the rings in the scarf?
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All the best for you, dear!Good afternoon sweet scarfies!
Woefully behind, but will try to at least catch up!
Currently in Georgia, where it is sunny but chilly and - sadly - I am feeling puny.
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I am kinda sorta of topic - math is most definitely not my strong suit - but my SOTD is beautiful and someone had to employ math and/or science to do this fantastic printing job.
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As others have said…a stunner with the blazer. Scarf is so beautiful!Good morning! Sharing my SOYD, Jardin de Leila au Bloc, by Francois Houtin, whose training as a landscape architect and garden designer has informed his imaginative and finely drawn etchings of gardens and landscapes. Besides Le Jardin de Leila, Houtin also designed Fantaisie Pittoresque and Jardin des Metamorphoses. If I am not mistaken, there is a fair amount of STEM involved in both architecture and garden design!
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An amazing bold cw! Showing the strength of NO to fight back against the damage from KatrinaThis is another wonderful post @HermesEchidna and just by coincidence I can post a scarf I wore this week! New Orleans Creole Jazz features one of the City's most enduring examples of river transportation: the paddlewheeler called "The Creole Queen." Historically, the paddlewheels were run by an engine that was powered by steam. Steam to run the engine was made by boilers, which were giant copper tubes with two flues and a firebox. The boiler was filled with water, and the fire was stoked high enough to make steam. Today's Creole Queen is an authentic paddlewheeler powered by a 24-foot diameter paddlewheel and the most modern, fuel efficient GE diesel-electric system ever installed in a boat of this class. You can take a Mississsippi River cruise while listening to jazz. Here is a photo:
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And here's the beautiful Creole Queen on my scarf.
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You can see the Riverboat tied up close to my neck on this Limited Edition issued in support of Katrina recovery efforts.
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Oooo these colors are chefs kiss on you. WOW!Wonderful examples of technology, HE. I admire your Les Merveilles de la Vapeur very much. I have looked for it in the past, but remind myself that I already have quite a few vintage Ledouxs.
I would like to share a Ledoux steam engine from my golfing scarf, The Royal and Ancient Game of Golf. Even in modern times I have often played golf on a course that was built next to the train tracks.
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DH was leaning over me as I was photographing the train and pointed out the windmill as another great technological achievement.
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While windmill technology has been updated, many of the windmills of today are also built in cow pastures.
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My scarf of the day is The Royal and Ancient Game of Golf.
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Mind blown. Thank you!@momasaurus Yes, it is a bushbaby (also called a galago in Africa). They are not lemurs but a type if primate known as a prosimian, so not really monkeys either, just like lemurs are their own category and are also prosimians but not really monkeys. They are all primates though - characterized by forward facing eyes for binocular vision to enable leaping through trees accurately, or in the case of chimps, humans, and baboons - capable of being skilled predators. Many prosimians eat insects and the binocular visions helps them catch / grab them. Primates also have nails instead of claws. Lemurs live exclusively on the island of Madagascar and no other primates live there (except humans). Bushbabies live in sub-Saharan mainland Africa and are nocturnal, thus their enormous eyes for enhanced light gathering capabilities.
As others have said..brilliant on the striped top! Inspiring. This is one of the many reasons why I love this thread. Get so inspiredGood afternoon sweet scarfies!
Woefully behind, but will try to at least catch up!
Currently in Georgia, where it is sunny but chilly and - sadly - I am feeling puny.
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I am kinda sorta of topic - math is most definitely not my strong suit - but my SOTD is beautiful and someone had to employ math and/or science to do this fantastic printing job.
Le Jaguar et Le Colibri
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It TOTALLY works! GorgToday is about warmth over matching. Though I thing the tones work. La Charmante aux Animaux CSGM.
Hope you feel better soon. It’s tough out there this winter. So many sick. And you are so clever!I have a cold and am not sure when I might be photo ready again, but I wanted to share this scarf. How often in the history of human endeavor has a great invention begun with a pencil sketch?View attachment 5931229
No more late night indeed haha. And beautiful scarvesI used to do a lot of studying in medical anthropology - my favourite place was the laboratory with skeletons....until one night I was alone in the lab and I heard strange noises. No more late night work for me in the lab after that!
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Love the entire look! Perfection! I realized something on my last boutique trip. I can NOT follow in some of your amazing colors. I wlll have to just be smitten seeing these looks on youNo real theme connection today, just Selle Imaginaire with a camel peacoat, and snow.
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Ooooo I love this! Great choice!A snowy day here, too, which is rare. SOTD was (meteorologically) off topic, but otherwise on theme. On a summer day depicts the dreamed town of architect and scarf designer Nigel Peake. As you see, I could not resist after seeing the photos several of you posted of this scarf.
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Stunner alert stunner alert! I stopped in tracks when scrolling. Congratulations on this beautyMore architectural drawings on Le Petit Duc today. (A 140 is perfect since it is freezing here!) View attachment 5931314
So happy to be twins in several. Your azulejos look is a knock out!! That top is totally your color w pulling your hair highlights. BeautifulStarting off with a design that has everything! Le Tour du Monde… too many examples to highlight for this week, especially a ton of architectural ones
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Speaking of which, the planning and building of the Chateau of Versailles was possible due to a refined usage of technology and engineering
Here, Flanerie a Versailles
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And, speaking of architecture and design… Grand Theatre Nouveau
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Continuing with the fanciful envisioning of what Atlantis would have looked like… L’Atlantide
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Azulejos is another perfect example for this week’s theme. The design’s style mimics the ubiquitous Portuguese tiles of the title. At the center there is a compass surrounded by ships in a harbor, ships in a harbor are depicted. Every corner is decorated with a nautical still-life of charts, compasses, astrolabes, parallel rulers, quadrants and globes.
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This was another one that stopped me in my tracks. These colors are stunning on you!! As Jereni said these jewel tones are perfection on you.Hi, scarf friends! I am wearing La Promenade de Platon today. Plato contributed to many key mathematical hypotheses.
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Yes! It is totally neat the ring continues the design. So cool! And great idea to pull those colors w your tops. InspiringI'm not sure I ended up loving this knot with this design--I was trying to highlight the greens/browns in this scarf, and avoid the orange--but nonetheless, SotD was Duo Cosmique. I suppose it is sort of neat that my chain d'ancre scarf ring appears to "connect" to the rings in the scarf?
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Ummm how did you do the colors??Ohhhhhh I love the jewel tones!!!
Brilliant. Thanks for the help w theme and to WikipediaCartography is the study and practice of making and using maps. Cartography combines science, aesthetics, and technique to build on the premise that reality (or an imagined reality) can be modeled in ways that communicate spatial information effectively. (Thanks Wikipedia).
My scarf of the day is Planifleurs. I particularly love this scarf because it reminds me of wonderful trips I've taken both in the US and abroad. When I travel for work or with DH, I almost always plan trips around gardens to visit, even in the winter. I think Christine Henry did a great job charting her planisphere and bringing her aesthetic to this fabulous map!
I didn't do this lovely scarf any favors today with my choice of top, but my first Zoom call was at 6am, so I was proud of myself for getting up and getting dressed. Now that I think about it, I can tie this scarf in to my early call today since I spoke with colleagues from Japan, India, Ireland, and the US!
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Spectacular post!! Wow. Just wow. I can’t even comment because I don’t know where to begin with all I love about it.,Today I want to celebrate -ologies ; the Scientific fields, the arenas of Beautiful Nerds who dig themselves into one single subject and only rarely come up for air.
We do know the Big sciences Biology, Geography, Geology, chemistry, physics etc and they certainly have scarf designs to remind us of them (I am still looking for the perfect Mineraux and Geologie), and the field opens even more up with alchemy, astronomy, ecology, entomology, meterology, not to forget oceanography, hippology and mixology! Earlier this week @EtsyBoss gave us a Grand tour of scarf primatology and many others of you lovely people have also shared botany and zoology already.
I will just begin the parade today with mineralogy in La Vallee Cristal (cryptozoology represented by the unicorn)
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and volcanology from Nothing but a Dreamer (the scarf that does for this theme what Animapolis does for every other theme)
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and the human with it’s head in a cloud from Sur mon Nuage - certainly a nephologist! And it happens in a cloud shaped like a sea shell - this calls for a conchologist!
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And we could all be considered ornithologists just by looking at birds on scarves!!
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So please bring out your periodic systems, your constallations, your world maps and your cloud maps. And find the scientists, the spectators, the experts, the collectors and the recorders of details looking up to the sky, into the microscope and under the surface to study and describe it all.
I wish you a most nerdy day!
Love these happy colors.
Thanks! That thing on Jungle Love scares me, as it looks like a bat, but calling it a bushBABY will calm me down perhaps.@momasaurus Yes, it is a bushbaby (also called a galago in Africa). They are not lemurs but a type if primate known as a prosimian, so not really monkeys either, just like lemurs are their own category and are also prosimians but not really monkeys. They are all primates though - characterized by forward facing eyes for binocular vision to enable leaping through trees accurately, or in the case of chimps, humans, and baboons - capable of being skilled predators. Many prosimians eat insects and the binocular visions helps them catch / grab them. Primates also have nails instead of claws. Lemurs live exclusively on the island of Madagascar and no other primates live there (except humans). Bushbabies live in sub-Saharan mainland Africa and are nocturnal, thus their enormous eyes for enhanced light gathering capabilities.
Beautiful coloration on this lovely soft cw @Nomad!It’s snowing and that means I dress rough, too rough for scarves.
Archive of Les Ailes.
A Personal stem related scarf. The father of my children has a stem career. During our courting phase in college, he would invite me to go out, at night, and hunt for bugs of all kinds, including moths. He would have to collect and study them. So I can either wear this scarf and think of our hunting death days![]()
Orrrr the much more acceptable thoughts of this being for science!
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I hope that you will soon be feeling as marvelous as you look @Cookiefiend!Good afternoon sweet scarfies!
Woefully behind, but will try to at least catch up!
Currently in Georgia, where it is sunny but chilly and - sadly - I am feeling puny.
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I am kinda sorta of topic - math is most definitely not my strong suit - but my SOTD is beautiful and someone had to employ math and/or science to do this fantastic printing job.
Le Jaguar et Le Colibri
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Feel better soon @Teaforparrots-- this is a wonderful design and color!I have a cold and am not sure when I might be photo ready again, but I wanted to share this scarf. How often in the history of human endeavor has a great invention begun with a pencil sketch?View attachment 5931229
A great story and great choice of silks to illustrate it @mktlim!I used to do a lot of studying in medical anthropology - my favourite place was the laboratory with skeletons....until one night I was alone in the lab and I heard strange noises. No more late night work for me in the lab after that!
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Its beautiful on you @Jereni!No real theme connection today, just Selle Imaginaire with a camel peacoat, and snow.
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Yes and what a marvelous cw you chose @Agrume! It looks wonderful on you-- I hope you are enjoying it!A snowy day here, too, which is rare. SOTD was (meteorologically) off topic, but otherwise on theme. On a summer day depicts the dreamed town of architect and scarf designer Nigel Peake. As you see, I could not resist after seeing the photos several of you posted of this scarf.
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Stunning Petit Duc @Awillow!More architectural drawings on Le Petit Duc today. (A 140 is perfect since it is freezing here!) View attachment 5931314
A great array of connections to the theme-- I particularly love your blue Flanerie a Versailles @Living.la.vida.fifi!Starting off with a design that has everything! Le Tour du Monde… too many examples to highlight for this week, especially a ton of architectural ones
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Speaking of which, the planning and building of the Chateau of Versailles was possible due to a refined usage of technology and engineering
Here, Flanerie a Versailles
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And, speaking of architecture and design… Grand Theatre Nouveau
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Continuing with the fanciful envisioning of what Atlantis would have looked like… L’Atlantide
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Azulejos is another perfect example for this week’s theme. The design’s style mimics the ubiquitous Portuguese tiles of the title. At the center there is a compass surrounded by ships in a harbor, ships in a harbor are depicted. Every corner is decorated with a nautical still-life of charts, compasses, astrolabes, parallel rulers, quadrants and globes.
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Well that is a piece of silk folding magic for sure @labelo! I don't think you could possibly have planned it! Looks great, too.I'm not sure I ended up loving this knot with this design--I was trying to highlight the greens/browns in this scarf, and avoid the orange--but nonetheless, SotD was Duo Cosmique. I suppose it is sort of neat that my chain d'ancre scarf ring appears to "connect" to the rings in the scarf?
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I think this scarf can do no wrong @MabelJo-- I chose it for the exact same reasons you did. When we were children my mother always sought out gardens on our travels-- at the time we sometimes complained but for all of us the habit took hold on our own travels, as for you...Cartography is the study and practice of making and using maps. Cartography combines science, aesthetics, and technique to build on the premise that reality (or an imagined reality) can be modeled in ways that communicate spatial information effectively. (Thanks Wikipedia).
My scarf of the day is Planifleurs. I particularly love this scarf because it reminds me of wonderful trips I've taken both in the US and abroad. When I travel for work or with DH, I almost always plan trips around gardens to visit, even in the winter. I think Christine Henry did a great job charting her planisphere and bringing her aesthetic to this fabulous map!
I didn't do this lovely scarf any favors today with my choice of top, but my first Zoom call was at 6am, so I was proud of myself for getting up and getting dressed. Now that I think about it, I can tie this scarf in to my early call today since I spoke with colleagues from Japan, India, Ireland, and the US!
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This is such a delicious cw for this charmer @Croisette7!
Judt gorgeous, LKB!
Perfect for NOLA!
This is such a dreamy pairing LKB! The florals with houndstooth is fantabulous together. PS- I do not get an autocorrect on fantabulous does this mean it has been accepted as an actual word?![]()
A masterpiece!
What a treasure it is! And, I can think of no one better to own this beauty… The colors are amazing
Such a cool and informative post!!! Your monkey scarf collection is top notch! I am IN LOVE with these colors on Au Coeur… may now have to hunt for this.
So elegant and full of rich detail.
Many scarfies collect Limited Edition issues but it must be an extra special pleasure to have one supporting a cause right at home so to speak. It’s lovely @LKBNOLA.
This is a stunner. When the au bloc version was released, I thought about trading in my original version but then felt a certain loyalty for it. It looks great with the blazer pattern and color.
Thank you @Croisette7, @bunnycat, @Living.la.vida.fifi, @Jereni, @Maedi and @Mebeljo (and @Nomad-- lost your quote) for your very kind compliments on Jardin de Leila au Bloc! And @textilegirl -- I do in fact have three LE designs which each have particular meaning to the places I live: Battery Park (I lived and worked in NYC for 40+ years); New Orleans Creole Jazz for a city I have a long family connection to and spend winters there, and Salt Marsh, as we live on a salt marsh on Cape Cod Bay! They are special indeed to me. Thank you for the comment.Oh wow, your Jardin de Leila au Bloc is lovely @LKBNOLA, and it looks fabulous with your blazer!