Time to move...

So sadly with a growing family, we decided to leave the Waenhuis and move onto something a little bigger. After a long journey of looking for the perfect house we settled on a ranch style home with a large patio, huge kitchen, an extra bedroom and a rolling green garden. Our shabby chic furniture fitted perfectly. We love the space, from the multi-coloured hybrid rose bushes to the resident Jack sparrow that resides in a nest in the rafters of the roof. It is place that we have come to call home in a short space of time, it has fueled my passion for home interiors even more.

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Fornasetti on Steel Grey

The most famous, the image that inspired Fornasetti to coin the title ‘Tema e Variazioni’, is the enigmatic face of a woman; the opera singer Lina Cavalieri.

He found that now iconic face as he leafed through a 19th century French magazine and became fascinated. Taking her as much as a muse and as a motif, he would return to Lina Cavalieri’s face again and again throughout his career. The archetypal classic female features, and enigmatic expression of Lina Cavalieri became Fornasetti’s most frequently used template and upon which he based more than 350 variations.

Lina Cavalieri’s face, explained Piero Fornasetti, was another archetype – a quintessentially beautiful and classic image. It was this formal, graphic appeal (rather than Lina Cavalieri’s celebrity) that demanded such loyalty and inspired the spontaneous and ceaseless creativity of Fornasetti. For him, this face became the ultimate enduring motif.

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