Friday, September 25, 2009

Last Days of Summer





Today was chilly when I walked to the streetcar with my boyfriend. It made me think of a warmer time when I lived in San Diego and Los Angeles.






HD Buttercup is a furniture store on Pico Blvd. in LA. They have this warehouse of random designers, old, new, modern, vintage. I used to go there and walk around on Saturdays when I decided that my Santa Monica apartment needed revamping. I would go for inspiration but never threw down any money for extravagant furniture---I'll have to wait until I live in a nice place to place nice furniture.

They did, however, carry these huge photographs by Slim Aarons--who believed in "photographing attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places". His photographs make me think of LA. Enjoy!




Slim Aaron’s most celebrated image was shot on New Year’s Eve of 1957 in the Crown Room at Romanoff’s restaurant in Hollywood. Called ”The Kings of Hollywood,” it showed Clark Gable, Van Heflin, Gary Cooper and Jimmy Stewart — what Smithsonian magazine called ”a Mount Rushmore of stardom” and the novelist Louis Auchincloss ”the very image of American he-men.”





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