bric{à}brac is...
The term bric-à-brac was first used in the Victorian era. It referred then to collections of curios. Things such as elaborately decorated teacups, small vases, feathers, wax flowers under glass domes, statuettes, painted miniatures and photographs. And so I thought how perfectly suited that name would be for a blog such as mine.
ideals & spice...
I come from a long line of gifted women, women who could not only image up great master pieces but women who also knew how to accomplish them. Most of these women weren't of great means but they never cease their wonderful abilities to create. There are many reasons to love design. Perhaps one of the greatest reasons is the opportunity to build upon the classics and compose something new.
A few years ago my husband and I spent a summer abroad. Through out the day I would stand in many marvelous and breath-taking spaces. Spaces filled with gilded balustrades, plush velvet settees and marble hallways but by night we would return home to a small village 40 minutes outside of Paris. There we were greeted with simple but elegant floral draperies, warm hard wood floors and white linen upholstery. It would have been obvious to any untrained eye that these spaces differed in grandeur but what truly made these interiors sparkle was not simply their tangible combination of earthly treasures but rather an elegant partnership between the physical and the heart and soul left by those who dwelt before and those that reside today. "A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness. - John Keats"
And so I dedicate this blog to all those DREAMERS of today and DESIGNERS of tomorrow and to quote a few words from my great grandmother, "All those that put ideals and spice into the world of those that create!"
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