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WelcomeLuxe, calme et volupté.*
That sounds wonderful.
In today’s world, I find that there is a disturbing lack of all of the above. Maybe it’s the speed at which we live our daily lives, multitasking during each measured moment of the day and well into our nights. Whatever the reason, I think that we’ve lost something that our parents and grandparents took for granted. Not just an ease in society or how to throw an intimate dinner for six or write a thank you note, but an everyday elegance.
Easy and Elegant Life is my attempt to define what makes up an elegant existence and to pass along a few easy (and inexpensive) ideas for bringing back a little elegance to our everyday lives. Here you will find ideas for living, decorating, entertaining and dressing with an easy elegance. Not just my ideas. To help point the way, I intend to seek out all sorts of people -- professional lifestyle experts and those who seem to have been born elegant -- asking them what they believe constitutes elegance and how we can best achieve it.
So to those whom Honore de Balzac called “elegantologists” I dedicate this site and the good fight.
* From “L’Invitation au voyage” by Charles Baudelaire. The whole line reads: “Là, tout n’est qu’ordre et beauté/ Luxe, calme et volupté.”
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Lovely spot you have. I feel inspired…and an illustration coming on!
What a great looking house!
Oh Mrs. PvE, only if I can trade something or commission you or something. Please let me know. C
Perhaps a few words, a clever and elegant arrangement, or recipe would be a wonderful trade. My father was born and his mother gave the Dr. a fresh chicken.
I just posted the illustration….
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You have a very lovely home. I love the details on the top on the column (is that doric architecture?).
Patricia’s illustration is very elegant.
Hello and welcome Kathy, the capitals aren’t as plain as Doric and are not as ornate as Corinthian (no acanthus leaves scrolling upwards from the column.) They are some combination of the two. Whilst they are modern, they are copies of the ones found inside the house. Mrs. PvE has a very elegant hand, it’s true.
Hope you had a great 4th!
And to you!
And what a lovely illustration of your beautiful house over at Patricia’s place!
Have you ever been told that your home has character? Well, here it is, your home has character.
Thank you all!
Welcome Clarity, and thanks. She’s a grand old gal built in 1907.
Great house beautifully decked out for the holiday. Keep up the good work!