Hand-fans from Fan d’Eventails Paris for July. Perfect for making your own breeze until you can get to the pool and jump in.
Wanting a whole new something but needing to start somewhere before the salesman arrives. Imagery from a 1950 catalogue titled “Collection of ideas: Pella Casement Windows,” put out by the Rolscreen Company of Des Moines, Iowa which was founded in 1929. Rolscreen having been the company’s original name.
dingy bedrooms, consider one like this with walls of sunshine! Composed of stock-size Pella Casement Units, they can be specified for any length and are easily installed. About two out of each three casement units are made to open. The others are stationary. Cleaning is facilitated by omitting vertical glass dividers. Pella Dual Glazing may be left in place all year to protect against summer heat as well as winter cold. All Pella windows are 100% assembled and pre-fitted at the factory. No cutting or fitting is necessary when they are being installed. This saves construction time and extra costs. Image 8 of the 1950 trade catalogue Collection of ideas: Pella Casement Windows put out by the Rolscreen Company. Probably in the public domain. Collections of Columbia University via https://archive.org/details/collectionofidea00rols/page/5/mode/1up
Pella is still around and still making windows. Visit them here https://www.pella.com/about/history/
An envisioning. July 1971. Suppertime over, and the evening about to begin at the summer house on Lake Tuscarora.
Oh to be here.
The children’s sparklers greeting the costumed up reenactor men paddling over as Revolutionary War someones. Funny. The family having summered on Lake Tuscarora one way or the other for all of eternity. Grandmama having sat by the canoe rack telling the same stories, but with ancestors in the canoes with real muskets, terrified the British would get them and they’d never get to go home.
my new short fiction piece with the rest at the link if you’d like to read the rest. The image is from lastminute. com.
https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/an-envisioning-july-1971-suppertime
Art in stone and wood back when stylish meant razzle dazzle something not polished granite with huge windows and infinity swimming pools. No these have no swimming pools at all. Imagery from the 1915 work “Materials and Documents of Architecture and Sculpture.” Antonin Raguenet, Architect. C. Broes Van Dort Company, Importers and Dealers in Books on Architecture and Industrial Art, importers and sales agents, publishers.
Looking like you are living it up going on train trips and staying at fancy hotels when you are merely modeling for Loom and Needle which was a fancy women’s dress shop located at 170 Esplanade in Lexington, Kentucky. Images from the University of Kentucky Archives.
Engravings of furniture design ideas, like the ones Marie Antoinette must have looked through when she was picking out furniture for her Trianon hideaway. A volume of plates inscribed 1780 on Page Two with ornamentation designs by Richard Le Londe. Richard Le Londe was a French designer noted for his work on fine furniture and interior designs. Various engravers.
A private library of one’s own. Something to aim at if you own lots of books, even if you never get there. Images from Digital Commonwealth.
An envisioning. 1950 and mid August with cocktail hour coming on at Erskiniana Manor.
Oh to be here.
A pitcher of something to mix up, as soon as one of the recipes in the booklet that came stuck to the back of the Bacardi bottle looks pretty. That, and needing one that matches whatever frozen juice colors are in the freezer section of the fridge.
my new short fiction piece published to my Substack with the rest at the link – the image is from an archive in Massachusetts.
https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/an-envisioning-1950-and-mid-august
Bits and pieces of life long gone by that may or may not still be part of someone’s holiday villa. Imagery from an illustrated supplement to “Armorial of Jersey: being an account, heraldic and antiquarian, of its chief native families, with pedigrees, biographical notices, and illustrative data; to which are added a brief history of heraldry, and remarks on the mediaeval antiquities of the island.” Published between 1859 and 1865, written by James Bertrand Payne.
This work has a lot of images of coats of arms, too not just this last one that I picked up because I like the dog. Mentioned in case someone would like to look at those.
An envisioning. 2011, July, and early morning approaching the crack of dawn as the mosquitoes start to whine at the townhouse on Alexandrine Bay.
Oh to be here.
Another travel mug of iced coffee with half a chug of half and half and two spoonfuls of Demerara sugar. The last being a bit too healthy, what with being accustomed to food that doesn’t have a picture of the farm it grew up on. But no sacks of Domino sugar for miles. The only shop you can walk to being more like the essence of Whole Foods crossed with a hippie-era patchouli oil vendor instead of a regular supermarket.
My new envisioning/short fiction piece published to my Substack at the link if you’d like to read the rest. The image is from Mid Century Modern on Facebook and Instagram
https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/an-envisioning-2011-july-and-early
