Monthly Archives: August 2009

japanese bar

peter 4 of 4

in kensington gardens

an edwar­dian fantasy

urban myth

The anthro­pol­o­gist respects his­tory, but he does not accord it a spe­cial value. He con­ceives it as a study com­ple­men­tary to his own: one of them unfurls the range of human soci­eties in time, the other in space. Claude Levi-Strauss

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30 st mary axe

with hol­land house — opened 1914, designed by the great dutch ‘father of mod­ernism’, berlage

paris neon1 of 6

romance du néon, romance de la cuisine

romance du cinema

long since, I lived beneath vast porticoes, by many ocean-sunsets tinged and fired

where mighty pillars, in majestic rows,

seemed like basaltic caves when day expired.