Great Dixter

'We wanted a cottagey stately home kind of feel'

from Signs of the Times by Martin Parr, 1992

(not photographed at Great Dixter).

Living: The cottagey stately home at Great Dixter.

Extinct: Fashion illustration in Vogue.

Cecil Beaton drawings, photographs, costume

designs and book covers on show at the

Museum of the City of New York.

Introducing: The red ticking scarf.

Made by Johnstons of Elgin,

of silk, wool, linen + cashmere.

Available at Ancient Industries.

Satin waistcoat embroidered

with coloured silk, Gloucester, 1770

Living: The costume department at the

V & A, inspiration for The Tailor Gloucester.

"I have been delighted to find I may draw

some most beautiful 18th century clothes

at the South Kensington Museum."

—Beatrix Potter, 1903.

Living: The Horace Batten boot jack, patented 1929,

"it holds both the heel and the toe enabling the greatest

possible force to be used in removing the boot."

Extinct, generally: The Jabot.

A decorative lace attachment to the front of

the neck, preferred by discerning gentlemen.

Self-Portrait Wearing a Jabot, c. 1751,

by Maurice Quentin de la Tour.

Resourceful: Danish old age pensioners knit

for Danish fashion labels (and they put their

earnings in the entertainments kitty).

Stills from Kaffeslabberas.com.

Introdução: The elusive pastel de nata arrives in

New York, courtesy of this Portuguese company.

Living: The Power Cut Kit.

10 candles, one galvanized box,

a lot of bright reflected light.

Available at Ancient Industries.

181st street and Broadway, New York

Hotel St George, Brooklyn Heights

All locations of Longchamps

Langston Hughes

Neglected: Winold Reiss, (1886-1953).

Painter, illustrator, graphic designer

+ interior designer, among other things.

Interior + graphic design by Winold Reiss

Paul Specht and his Hotel Alamac Orchestra

Hotel Alamac in Atlantic City advertising

the opening of Hotel Alamac in New York.

"Opens July 1923, 600 Rooms, Baths"

"Once, a terrible number of years ago, when

Seymour and I were eight and six, our parents

gave a party for nearly sixty people in our three and

a half rooms at the old Hotel Alamac, in New York."

The Panic in Needle Park, shot in and

around the Hotel Alamac; Joan Didion and

John Gregory Dunne stayed there in 1967

for research. The studio of Duncan Hannah

is pictured above the DRUGS sign.

Living: The Hotel Alamac, built in 1923,

New York residence of Ancient Industries.

Call ENdicott 2-5000 to reserve a room.

Selling: The Book of Blokes by

Sir William Nicholson, 1929.

Revealed: World's oldest Christmas

pudding discovered in back of cupboard.