tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543457325368639597.post8933818344720022880..comments2024-02-26T07:35:50.281-08:00Comments on the style saloniste: Eternally ChicDiane Dorrans Saekshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02259292681678952448noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543457325368639597.post-41148877802780667322009-07-04T09:51:36.051-07:002009-07-04T09:51:36.051-07:00Congratulations on entering a new world, The Blogo...Congratulations on entering a new world, The Blogosphere, I hope it brings you much pleasure. It will be our pleasure to learn from you.<br /><br />I enjoyed your Madeleine Castaing post very much. I admire her ability to take her inspirations from the true muses of art, books, history and blend it all together with her own fantasy.home before darkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13272062955786414729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543457325368639597.post-21709419603049658262009-06-23T23:19:10.475-07:002009-06-23T23:19:10.475-07:00French Interiors is the most fabulous book and I e...French Interiors is the most fabulous book and I enjoyed all the chapters. Thank you for the wonderful post - I am a Madeleine Castaing fan also, xv.vicki archerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07847183975086900816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543457325368639597.post-85591762225775854372009-06-20T11:44:41.218-07:002009-06-20T11:44:41.218-07:00I love Madeleine Castaing... I read about her a wh...I love Madeleine Castaing... I read about her a while ago - what a delight it must have been to work with her... I would have loved to see her wig with the chin strap too! Great post Diane. Thank you.Valerie Wills Interiorshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13030691457373944737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543457325368639597.post-91387513252860516732009-06-17T23:00:06.739-07:002009-06-17T23:00:06.739-07:00Madeleine Castaing: she lived to be 98...a great l...Madeleine Castaing: she lived to be 98...a great life.<br /><br />Her country house--so superbly presented, and at length, in the new FRENCH INTERIORS--was a dream<br />Her shop was on the corner of rue Jacob and rue Bonaparte , and two rooms of magic. There was always the question and rumors that nothing was for sale. Certainly MC never got up from her corner chair to ask if you wanted to know a price, a provenance, or to make a purchase. On the other hand, she was in her nineties so perhaps she preferred to simply sit.<br />One day, when Mamadou suddenly appeared and stood silently watching--MC asked if I would like to view her apartment upstairs (I can't imagine that I would have asked to...) so I went up the spiral stairs with Mamadou and walked, rapturously, to her dusty bedroom, all blue and white, and then from room to room. It was so poetic, a little tragic, theatrical, and with the edging of dust and time passing/passed. One of my best memories of Paris. So many new shops in Paris now--all lacking the patina of age and time. I must say, however, that the little Laduree pastry shop--where MC used to be--does still, with the bas reliefs and turquoise walls, have a Castaing feeling. Landmark and all that. OH! And if you feel like splurging--there is/was a turquoise box they sell that is Castaing-inspired--they fill it with I think 12 macaroons (whatever is inside is a set thing)...it is pale turquoise with a white bas-relief bust on top in white. Beautiful. I have two. Highly recommend.Diane Dorrans Saekshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02259292681678952448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543457325368639597.post-74407587759982957042009-06-17T21:22:54.710-07:002009-06-17T21:22:54.710-07:00Cocteau and Castaing, Proust and Gallimard, Grange...Cocteau and Castaing, Proust and Gallimard, Grange and Colette...so many connections come to mind.<br />Reading your articles is like breathing class, style and beauty.Brillante Interiorshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05829930791068801175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543457325368639597.post-20610080960919565942009-06-17T14:12:14.052-07:002009-06-17T14:12:14.052-07:00This book-I think is one of the best of the best b...This book-I think is one of the best of the best books in years to come out-Sumptuous. I adore the quote by designer Powers- textbook with lots of sidenotes- that is great, I will write that one down. I would like to invite you to my blog to see my reading list. I am relatively new to blogging and have just started a Summer Reading Series , my picks are out today with some other side notes(yes!) and I will have lots of other bloggers weighing in too- yesterdays post. Come over-little augury.P.Gaye Tapp at Little Auguryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15115534755711063462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543457325368639597.post-18655072109879225182009-06-17T14:08:41.864-07:002009-06-17T14:08:41.864-07:00Surely you must meet Emily Eeerdsmans, Regency Red...Surely you must meet Emily Eeerdsmans, Regency Redux, she has a fascination with MC too. <br />pvepve designhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03527745630303158002noreply@blogger.com