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The 60s. Daring cuts, materials, patterns and colors. An elegant woman, in motion ... What does this remind you ? 

I wish you delicacy in all respects, the lightness even in tough moments, the "allure" in each of your intimate movements, thousand refined attentions in your daily life, the surprise and wonder of unexpected encounters, the happiness of descrete elegance, to host with enthusiasm what happens to you, to follow your red thread with obstinacy, the joy of loving and being loved.

ELISE

IN OUR GRAND-MOTHER's WARDROBES
Table-cloths and towels, sheets and boutis, embroidery and lace, fine linen ...
THE BOOK that lovers of the art of fine linen or household were expecting has been published by the Chène Edition. Ines HEUGEL, the author tells us life and history of fine materials that constitute the art of fabrics : linen, cotton, silk, hemp, linen-cotton mixture, ... She evokes in a very lively manner, techniques and traditions to ennoble and ornament fabrics: marking tools and "abécédaires", embroidery, monograms, lace, bleaching and dyeing. An entire chapter is devoted to the outfit of yesterday. Pictures of Christian Sarramon are designed as "tableaux vivants". They restore the grain and almost the smell of the delicate and noble fabrics.

I thoroughly enjoy this publication for several reasons. This outstanding book reflects the importance and variety of this "collective heritage" just as it makes up for each of us so many reminiscences, somehow, our individual memory of family linen. It also participates in the renewal of Home art that I see every day in my shop when I meet young couples, tired of plastic and disposable, anxious to create their sustainable outfit of monogrammed sheets, pillows, sheets. I thank the authors of this book who came into my shop to find sources of inspiration and to photograph many articles presented. As you can see in some pictures below.

Mikeli Kudo is a graceful ballerina in every sense of the term. She is also a mother and a woman liking good living. She is the author of a sophisticated guide for Japanese tourists humorously subtitled as "Economic and Ecological Living in Paris, that's chic life". She walks the readers in her private and unusual Paris over her secrete addresses and favorites. In the chapter "Finding time to do the flea markets, she is kind enough to devote very friendly comments to my shop. Even for true Parisians, this guide includes suprizing and outstanding "Must" adresses. It is written in Japanese with chapter's heads in French and beautiful illustrations, photos or drawings. I'm thrilled with this publication as I have a great deal of affection for Japanese customers. They are curious, sensitive and loyal and also very savy of the antique fabric and clothe's subtleties. My gratitude to the gracious Mikeli and the delicious Miki Yamashita, a talented editor of this guide on behalf of the Asahi Shimbun Publications.

Found in one of my secret trunks, black and white portraits of divas of the Roaring Twenties. These portraits were published as postcards manufactured in France. On the back, messages written in exotic languages, Turkish, Serbian, Arabic, Russian. A recipient in particular makes me dream: a postcard sent to Astra Djidjian, Ile des Princes - Proti Constantinople. For you, I intend to publish on my Diva's series. Let's start with the gorgeous actrice Brigitte HELM

Brigitte Eva Gisela Schittenhelm (born March 17, 1908, Berlin, Germany – died June 11, 1996, Ascona, Switzerland) was a German actress, best-remembered for her dual role as Maria and her double, the Maschinenmensch, in Fritz Lang's 1927 masterpiece silent film, Metropolis. Helm was still a teenager when she essayed the role. After Metropolis, which was her second film, Helm made over 30 other films, including talking pictures, before retiring in 1936.Her other appearances film include The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927), Alraune (1928), L'Argent (1928), Gloria (1931), The Blue Danube (1932), L'Atlantide (1932), and Gold (1934). In 1935, angered by Nazi control of the German film industry, she moved to Switzerland where she later had 4 children with her second husband Dr. Hugo von Kuenheim, an industrialist. After her retirement from films she refused to grant any interviews concerning her film career. Source Wikipedia.