Sans Pretension and a few other things

Photography by Mikael JanssonMissy Rayder
Photography by Mikael JanssonArizona Muse
Photography by Mikael JanssonArizona Muse
Photography by Mikael JanssonArizona Muse
Photography by Mikael JanssonMissy Rayder
Photography by Mikael JanssonArizona Muse
I'm lying in bed at The Actor's as we had a very late night.  Apologies if this post is a bit disjointed but I'm just going to blog a few random

Friday quotes - Salvador Dali

"At the age of six I wanted to be a cook.At seven I wanted to be Napoleon.My ambition has been growing steadily ever since"
Salvador Dali(1904-1989)
I was as thinking of doing a fashion designer for this Friday's quotes but I always go with whatever pops into my head first.  The Actor are going back to Catalonia in the summer and I've been looking at pictures of when we were last in Cadaques

Pictures I love

Salvador and Gala Dali

Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman

Photography by Steven MeiselClaudia Schiffer

cPhotography by Phillipe HalsmanBrigitte Bardot

Photography by Phillipe HalsmanMarilyn Monroe

Photography by Phillipe HalsmanDuke and Duchess of Windsor

Photography by John SwannellJohn Gielgud
I'm running around doing appointments today so here's a random collection of pictures I like.

Interior inspirations

I love roses in this colour.  I've always fancied having huge blousy peachy-pink roses like this in my garden, but as a rule I'm not a very pink or girly type of person.  I have a couple of things in my house that are pink. Occasionally I'll see something ridiculous and buy it on impulse.

I spotted these huge silk roses in a nearby florist when I moved into my house in 1997.  I keep them in

Seven quotes for a Thursday afternoon - Part forty eight

"Do you want to be an artist and a writer, a wife and a lover?With kids, your focus changes.  I don't want to go to PTA meetings"
Stevie Nicks(b. 1948)



"Besides wanting to be an artist I wanted to be a movie star"
Patti Smith(b. 1946)


Photography by William GottliebBillie and her dog Mister, 1946
"There's no damn business like show business.You have to smile to keep from throwing up"

Madonna's Manhattan apartment

Photography by Steven MeiselMadonna for Vogue Italia, 1991
I love to look at people's houses and how they put things together. I have a huge collection of World of Interiors, House and Garden and Elle Decoration. I love any books on interiors and seeing great design from any period, but I especially adore antiques. I think they made things with a quality you rarely see these days.
It would be

Dali, Cadaques and our new pop-up pool

Salvador Dali


Port Lligat - Casa Dali
The last time we borrowed our friend's house in the South of France we drove to Spain which was only an hour to the border and went on a little road trip.  One of the places we visited in Catalonia was Salvador Dali's amazing house and garden, Port Lligat in Cadaques where Dali lived from 1930 until 1982.

He had a thing about eggs.  I was going to try and

Seven quotes for a Thursday afternoon - Part thirty two

"I never thought I was sick and I still don't"
Frances Farmer(1913-1970)




"I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodiesbut not the madness of people"
Sir Isaac Newton(1642-1727)




"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.  I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane from expressing that.  That's what's insane

Pictures I love

Ruby and pearl lips brooch by Salvador Dali, 1949




Photography by Richard BurbridgeRuby necklace and red lips - Masha Novoselova for Harpers Bazaar, July 2009