La Specola, Firenze
I took these pictures on March, during my trip to Florence. I don’t know why I waited so long to post them, anyway, La Specola is the first wunderkammer-museum I saw, that’s way the pictures are so faltering. At first…
Pamela Love
The New York based jewelry designer Pamela Love is the proof that wunderkammer-culture, in some way, arrived till nowdays and today is still alive. She caught my attention when I knew she was the assistant of italian painter Francesco Clemente for years. In 2008…
Meadham Kirchoff SS 2012
“Cleanliness is next to Godliness” Courtney Love, Miss World video I want to talk about Meadham Kirchoff SS 2012 and maybe I will be a little overtalking but there’s so much to say! I know some “serious” designer could see…
Jayne Mansfield’s house
Another example of kitsch furnishing and decoration, the Jayne Mansfield’ s house, the “Pink Palace”. In November 1957 (shortly before her marriage to Hargitay), Mansfield bought a 40-room Mediterranean-style mansion formerly owned by Rudy Vallée at 10100 Sunset Boulevard inBeverly Hills. Mansfield…
The Doll
The Mechanical Doll, Nino Rota Hans Bellmer dolls, 1930 ca. Ernst Lubitsch’s, Die Puppe (1919) What ever happened to Baby Jane? (1962) Jan Švankmajer, Jabberwocky (1971) Federico Fellini, Casanova (1976) Joseph Cornell, Untitled (Bébé Marie) early 1940’s Mechanical Dolls, Tim Walker…