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Wisteria Extravaganza: Kitchen Chairs

One of my favorite things about Dallas is the Wisteria outlet, which is dangerously close to where I live.  I have made three major purchases in the past couple months for too good to be true deals that induced a rapid heart rate: a mirror, an entryway table, and these newly purchased chairs.  The chairs just happened to be the ones I had my eye on, and had initially come to the store to find:

Wisteria Wishbone Chair

My favorite was the Wegner Wishbone Chair at Room and Board but Wisteria's were a quarter of the price, so I was even willing to pay in full.  Even though they don't come in the array of colors that Room and Board's selections do, I was happy to settle with white.  When I saw the chairs in all their glory in their 40% off section and a massive store sale to boot (additional 20%) I was thrilled-can you say steal!  But I had to pick them up in a mishmash of colors, knowing that I must paint them, so in the end, I may just get my dream yellow Wegner chair a la my initial Room and Board inspiration:

Room and Board Wegner Wish Bone Chair

I went to a number of places to purchase all of my supplies: sandpaper, primer, lacquer finish, and painter's tape.  On my last stop, someone who refinishes furniture for a living overheard me and we struck a deal: $25 a chair.  I could breathe a big sigh of relief, because I am not a huge DIYer and was nervous about the outcome of me tackling this project alone.  To top it off, I could pick any yellow paint color under the sun, which he could color match, so I wasn't stuck with the slim choices of the spray paint colors.

I have been awash in a sea of yellow paint swatches for days, deciding on the perfect match.  I am looking for a color that is not too bright but is also not the pastel color of a plastic Easter egg.

Help?

I have these stools in the color I am seeking from a photo I took of David Jimenez's designed Palm Springs house (see here and here), and as always, the yellow doors of the Viceroy Palm Springs provide my inspiration color.

Image via Viceroy Palm Springs

In the end, I decided to go for it with a swatch I had from Valspar: Lemon Curd.  Now to drop off my chairs, and hope that this all turns out as planned!

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Great conductors of the 20TH century EMI VOL.21 - Monteux

CD1 [73.03]

Beethoven: Symphony No.2 in D, Op.36; October 1960

Wagner: Prelude & Liebestod ('Tristan und Isolde'); February 1964
Sinfonieorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks; Musikhalle, Hamburg

Hindemith: Symphony 'Mathis de Maler'
Danish State Radio Symphony Orchestra; Danish Radio Concert Hall, Copenhagen;
October 1962 (Live)

CD2 [74.07]

Debussy: Trois Nocturnes
Women of the Berkshire Festival Chorus & Boston Symphony Orchestra;
Symphony Hall, Boston; August 1955

Tchaikovsky: 'The Sleeping Beauty', Op.66 - excerpts
London Symphony Orchestra; Kingsway Hall, London; June 1957

Rouget de Lisle: La Marseillaise
London Symphony Orchestra; Walthamstow Town Hall, London; June 1962 (Rehearsal)




THE BIOGRAPHY - PIERRE MONTEUX (1875-1964)
Pierre Monteux (1875-1964) was born in Paris, and it was there he first made his mark when he became principal conductor of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, with which he led the riot-torn premiere of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps in 1913. Other major premieres under his direction with the Ballets Russes were of Stravinsky's Petrushka (1911) and Le Rossignol (1914), Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé (1912), and Debussy's Jeux (1913). His other principal positions were as conductor of the Boston Symphony (1919-24), co-conductor with Willem Mengelberg of the Concertgebouw Orchestra (1924-34), principal conductor of the Orchestre Symphonique de Paris (1929-39), music director of the San Francisco Symphony (1936-52) and principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra (1961-4). He was also universally beloved as a guest conductor the world over.

THE RECORDINGS
The 1962 Danish Radio broadcast of Hindemith's Mathis de Maler Symphony, one of Monteux's favourite 20th-century scores, is a rare example of this conductor caught live and is an important addition to his discography. The Hamburg studio recordings (of Beethoven and Wagner), also from the early 1960s, have not appeared on CD before. Monteux's close links with the world of dance (not least through his association with Diaghilev's Ballets Russes) are reflected here in a superb 1957 recording with the London Symphony Orchestra (of which he later became principal conductor) of substantial extracts from Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty. Finally, the compilation acknowledges Monteux's reputation as a superb interpreter of the music of his native France and does so with the classic 1955 Boston recording of Debussy's Trois Nocturnes and Rouget de Lisle's La Marsellaise, taken from a 1962 rehearsal with the LSO. 



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Trip to the Antique Store

I went antique shopping last weekend. You probably think that is all I do, but not really. It goes in cycles. Spring always gives me the bug. Besides, I was on a mission! But I did get a little distracted. I was looking for a pink glass drinking glass for my room, so I don't have to traipse all the way down the stairs for water in the night. I found a marvelous glass, but I don't have pictures yet.

I did come across these darling little cookbooks! There were each only a dollar and aren't really books, little paperback pamphlets really. I don't feel as guilty about buying them and they won't take up a lot of space, so I can squeeze them on my cookbook shelf.

Menu Magic is from the Diamond Walnut Company. A very cute, colorful book. Judging from the pictures it was probably printed in the late 30's.

I opened it up and that was it, I knew I had to get it, an Apron!

Don't they look good?

Next up, is a Swift's Bland Lard cookbook. Probably 1930s also. I love the size and the color of this little book.

It has just about every sort of recipe, cakes, biscuits, fried chicken, doughnuts, pies, cookies.

Yum! Doughnuts! My mouth is watering at this picture. I love the recipe title too, Tea Doughnuts. Didn't know there was such a thing?

I just fell in love with this title. 12 Pies Husband Like Best. Don't you love it?

Aunt Jenny's forward is too cute. Nearly every man loves pie. Then give him pie to his hearts content! Any one of these recipes is sure to be pie to his liking- they were chosen because they're the pies that surveys, research, letters in my mail show most men like best. So begin anywhere- run your own popularity contest- see which pie wins with him!

Aunt Jenny seems to be right, I have never met a guy whose eyes haven't lit up at the thought of pie. I really want to try I few of her recipes, they look interesting.

This little book was put out by Spry Shortening. Interesting way to make pie crust, wonder if it works. Anyone ever made it this way?

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Sifting the Soil of Greece

David W.J. Gill, Sifting the Soil of Greece: the Early Years of the British School at Athens (1886-1919). Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, suppl. 111. London: Institute of Classical Studies, 2011. ISBN 978-1-905670-32-1. £38. xiv + 474 pp.
[WorldCat]

The British School at Athens opened in 1886 “to promote all researches and studies” which could “advance the knowledge of Hellenic history, literature, and art from the earliest age to the present day”. Over the next thirty years the School initiated a major programme of excavations, initially on Cyprus, then at Megalopolis, on Melos, and at Sparta. School students took part in the work of the Cretan Exploration Fund and in the major regional surveys of the Asia Minor Exploration Fund.

Most of the students who were admitted to the School in this period had been educated at either Cambridge or Oxford. Women, mostly from Cambridge, took part in the School’s activities including the excavations at Phylakopi. The students’ research interests included Greek pottery, Aegean prehistory, and epigraphy. The experience of Greece prepared the students for later work in British universities and in other professions. Many extended their archaeological experience in Greece to fieldwork in Britain, Egypt, and India.

During the First World War former students were involved in intelligence work in the eastern Mediterranean through the activities of the Arab Bureau in Cairo.

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