odds and ends / 9.8.2026

Firmin Baes, "The Young Girl and the Cabbage (‘La petite fille au chou’)," ca. 1903, private collection, Antwerp.*A grasshopper design in Leavers lace. Late 19th or early 20th century. Collection of Anne Swift.*Yui Suzukey, "Lattice Picnic," 2026.*Felix Vallotton, "Coucher de soliel, nuages bleus (Sunset, Blue Clouds)," 1918.*Excerpt from "Questions My Son Asked Me, Answers I Never Gave Him" by Nancy Willard.*Early 20th century three-light chandelier made of lacquered sheet metal featuring thistles and tulips.*Charlotte Perriand with an unknown man on a summer’s day, date and photographer unknown, from the collection of the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, via aetherian_upstate.*He was born in 1948 and grew up in a small Suffolk backwater. This was a world closer to the 19th century than it was to our own dully fractious era. No global hullabaloo of youth culture: impossible to imagine Altamont or Live Aid, Michael Jackson on the Thames, Bono cold calling George Bush…