NB! · Observations

No, You Did Not Imagine It

NB! · Architecture · Paris

A detail of the interior decoration of the Château de Rambouillet, the summer residence of the French presidents outside Paris

NB! · Art

A Bouquet of Primroses by Henri Fantin-Latour

NB! · Aristocracy · Archive · Art · London · Monarchies

Prince Charles and Princess Anne through the lens of Antony Armstrong-Jones, their future uncle, the Earl of Snowdon

A black dress with a white graphic pattern of lines on a mannequin in a wood-framed glass case, with black-and-white photographs of models on the wall nearby.

NB! · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Pop Culture

1967 Outfit by Tamara Feidel and Sulamif Zaslavskaya at the “House of Fashion” Exhibition at the Museum of Moscow

In my view, this 1967 ensemble of dress and coat by Tamara Feidel and Sulamif Zaslavskaya could well have been an exhibit at the Musée des arts décoratifs de Paris, but it is on show at the Museum of Moscow, at the exhibition «Dom modelei. Industriya obrazov» [House of Fashion.

NB! · Archaeology · Architecture · Humour

I do not know whether your life will ever be the same after you learn that ancient columns actually looked LIKE THIS

Notre-Dame de Paris covered in scaffolding, with a yellow tower crane, behind the stone embankment of the Seine.

NB! · Architecture · Faith · Observations · Heritage · Paris

Reconstruction of Notre-Dame de Paris continues, seen from the Seine embankment

Work on the reconstruction of Notre-Dame de Paris is in full swing. But, frankly, one dreads to imagine what it will look like inside

NB! · Art · People

It is held that it was from this drawing, "Lingonberry Leaves" by Nikolai Suetin, that the tilted female faces came to Suprematist portraits

Ornate ceiling with gilded moulding above a pink wall bearing a large white handwritten inscription; small framed geometric compositions hang below.

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Exhibition hall with abstract geometric works on a pink wall

NB! · Art · Cinema

Eva Green as the Venus de Milo, Bernardo Bertolucci's “The Dreamers”, 2003

Painted portrait of a young woman in a white dress and pearl necklace beside red drapery, with a globe and books nearby.

NB! · Monarchies · Observations · Humour

Queen Victoria, aged 18, convened her first council at 11 in the morning

A reminder that one need not postpone life until noon. The eighteen-year-old Queen Victoria convened her first council at 11 o’clock in the morning

Aerial view of a medieval castle: stone walls with round towers, a Gothic chapel, a keep on a mound, a small town outside the walls and a river at left.

NB! · Archive