We’ve Been Here Before, We’ll Be Here Again | The 1958 Recession & Grassroots Economic Stimulation Package

  “It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours.”    –Harry S. Truman     ~*~      

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Le Corbusier | The Father of “International Style” Design

* “Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.” * –Le Corbusier ~*~ ** “To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.” * –Le Corbusier * * “The home should be the [...]

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A Man’s Desk is the Portal to His Mind | How Good Design Creates Order

  “If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?”  –Dr. Laurence J. Peter ~*~  

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Cecil Beaton | Fashion Slave from the Cradle to the Grave

  “Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary”  –Cecil Beaton ~*~                          

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Noel Coward | Desert Dandy by Loomis Dean

- How timely indeed– – “If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.” –Noel Coward – ~*~ – 1954– Noel Coward –photo by the legendary Loomis Dean – - 1954– Noel Coward –photo by the legendary Loomis Dean -

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Adolphe Menjou | Legendary Style

  “Sex appeal rises from him like a cloud of steam.”   ~*~                

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