Tuesday 22 May 2018

Empire Furniture Etc

See Abstract Logic And Concrete History here.

Ganz's Library
chandelier
bookshelves
up-to-date Empire furniture
busts
framed etchings
framed oils
crockery
Chinese-motif wallpaper
maroon drapes

Shalten's Flat
windows admitting air smelling slightly of smoke and richly of horse droppings (!)
hangings
pictures
busts
bric-a-brac
a leather and horsehair armchair
solidity accumulated since the Congress of Vienna

More later but Sheila and I are just setting off on a long walk.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

And it would take both a long peace and a dynamically expanding, basically free enterprise economy to enable people to attain this kind of solid prosperity.

Sean