Category Archives: Networking
Amazon in her prime
Spend the night chez Natalie Barney as she celebrates her 50th birthday
The Liberace family tree
Happy hundredth birthday to the artist formerly known as Walter Busterkeys
Working the room
British poet David Gascoyne, born 100 years ago today, lets his dinner – and his date – go cold as he pursues Charles Henri Ford into the Montparnassian night…
Working the room
British poet David Gascoyne, born 100 years ago today, lets his dinner – and his date – go cold as he pursues Charles Henri Ford into the Montparnassian night…
Long dark night of the soul
“Je suis la Vierge immaculée!”
Flaneur through modernity
Harry Graf Kessler, “one of the most cosmopolitan men who ever lived” (with the world’s worst gaydar)
Flaneur through modernity
Harry Graf Kessler, “one of the most cosmopolitan men who ever lived” (with the world’s worst gaydar)
Artists and Prophets
A secret history of visionaries, provocateurs and al fresco evangelists
Befuddled oracle
A “presence rather than a human being”: Princess Violette Murat
15 books for 2015
Bricktop, Baron Corvo and Bertolt Brecht join a cast of…oh, about two dozen
Dress-down Friday, hommage edition
Casati. Naturally.
Places: Crowley’s Berlin
The Great Beast witnesses the Weimar twilight
C’est Fini
“We feel you like the same things we do, strange and fantastic things…”
Meanwhile, on Whale Cay…
Remembering “the fastest woman on water”, Joe Carstairs
Mühsam meets Meyrink
“It must have been around midnight…”
Wild hearts at midnight
Flickering lanterns in the Temple d’Amitié…
Circles: Charles Henri Ford
His influence and relationships ranged from the Surrealists and the interwar expat community in Paris through to the Beats and the Factory, connections which he carried right into the 21st century.
Circles: Charles Henri Ford
His influence and relationships ranged from the Surrealists and the interwar expat community in Paris through to the Beats and the Factory, connections which he carried right into the 21st century.
Lady Ottoline Morrell | photographic portraits
Her photographs, pasted into albums and never intended for a wide audience, nonetheless bear eloquent witness to a life lived in fine company
Lady Ottoline Morrell | photographic portraits
Her photographs, pasted into albums and never intended for a wide audience, nonetheless bear eloquent witness to a life lived in fine company
Pages: Passionate Attitudes
“Beardsley, like ‘decadence’, was new, diseased and curious in form – and, like the century, he was hastening towards his end.”
Pages: Passionate Attitudes
“Beardsley, like ‘decadence’, was new, diseased and curious in form – and, like the century, he was hastening towards his end.”
Dress-down Friday: Harry Graf Kessler
“He attached great importance to dressing well, considering his friend Richard Dehmel’s predilection for gaudy ties to be something of a moral failing.”
Dress-down Friday: Harry Graf Kessler
“He attached great importance to dressing well, considering his friend Richard Dehmel’s predilection for gaudy ties to be something of a moral failing.”
Strange Flowers 