All these wonderful tropical house plant drawings are from the book with a rather lengthy title. ” New and rare beautiful-leaved plants: containing illustrations and descriptions of the most ornamental-foliage plants not hitherto noticed in any work on the subject.” The book was written by Shirley Hibberd and Benjamin Fawcett in 1870.[Read more]
This is a collection of vintage Animal posters from one of two famous French illustrated Larousse Dictionaries: Nouveau Larousse illustré : Dictionnaire Universel Encyclopédique and Le Larousse pour tous. Both were published in France between 1898-1924. Many of the wonderful zoological illustrations were by French naturalist painter Adolphe Millot. I have[Read more]
This is a collection of gorgeous old maps of Asia that are in the public domain. I was born in Asia, Hong Kong to be precise and that was my family home for the first 30 years of my life. I now live in Europe, but there will always be[Read more]
This is a collection of the incredibly beautiful antique insect art by Joris Hoefnagel. Joris Hoefnagel (1542-1601) was a famous 16th century Flemish artist and merchant. He was particularly well known for his illustrations of natural history subjects, topographical views, illustrations and mythological works. As an artist he was self-taught. Hoefnagel painted[Read more]
The Shin-Bijutsukai was a turn of the century (1901-1902) design magazine full of wonderful vintage Japanese art prints. The wonderful designs in the magazine were from the best Japanese artists at the time. All the prints are original Japanese woodblock prints. They reflected aspects of Japanese life from everyday surroundings,[Read more]
I’m a big fan of color especially a rainbow of color. My home is full of rainbow crafts and DIYs. I thought it would be fun to add to the decor with some vintage color wheel posters and vintage color charts. I even display many of the colorful vintage flowers[Read more]
In the next street to me, there are two gorgeous magnolia trees that are in bloom at the moment. They look and smell so beautiful that it has inspired me to curate this collection of vintage magnolia prints. Like with many other flowers such as daffodils and tulips, magnolias are[Read more]
It’s hard to believe that these fish paintings of Louis Renard were first published in 1719. They are from the book “Poissons, écrevisses et crabes… que l’on trouve autour des Isles Moluques, et sur les côtes des Terres Australes” by Louis Renard. This was the first known book of colourful[Read more]