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Our friend Nikki wearing our white ruffle collar and the wonderful tuxedo shirt that has been a shop favorite (more are now available in our online shop) with vintage hats from France and a couple Eliurpi hats in the bottom picture <3
What Color Is The Wind?
We are very happy campers when our children's book selection is brimming with incredibly beautiful books that ask important questions like "What color is the wind"... and teach us how to write and continue writing if our "mind and heart go blank"... stories that lead us only by pictures, requiring our imagination to make up all the details not written... poetic explorations of nonfiction worlds that help us get a bit more excited by all the facts... books about shapes- one in particular called "The Wing On A Flea" !! - in which we can learn that a triangle is an admiral's hat or a bandit's bandanna. The world opens up and takes us way in these magical lands existing under the cover. We say us, because we include ourselves in the captive audience enjoying and treasuring these special books.
Astier de Villatte
My mom and I spent a morning at her house playing with our new pieces from Astier de Villatte. The leaves on her fig tree had started to turn every beautiful color of Autumn, so we added them to our arrangements to initiate the feeling of Fall. We received tea pots, pitchers, tea cups, coffee cups, tiny dishes and wonderful incense holders. Oh the world of Astier is a magnificent one! We love all these pieces with our favorite gingham patterns <3 There are more pictures on our instagram- bontucson :)
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Some of our clothing pieces and an Eliurpi black hat worn by our friend Isolde. These photos began with thoughts of a project with my partner (not at the shop, but in life)- Naïm Amor. We were listening to one of his albums one evening- The Western Suite and Siesta Songs - this is an album that he did in collaboration with John Convertino. It has both their unique styles intertwined, with the overlying feeling of the vast, open, wide space of the desert. A little bit of the wildness of the west as well. We were listening, talking and imagining this song really playing out in the space it resonated with. Thus came the moment to make some initial impressions of the imagery we were imagining... that would later turn into movement. There is more to come, but we share these photos with you now- as they really feel like this very hot moment. Our long summer that really gets intense in the month of August.
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We have received the most beautiful batch of goodies from Astier de Villatte. Shown above are the cups that are exquisite!! We will slowly be sharing more photos of all the special pieces. Sometimes it feels surreal that such beauty exists in the world... as though it's something that we would only dream of. Behind it though are incredibly hard workers- from the founders Ivan Pericoli and Benoit Astier de Villate - to the craftsmen making all these pieces by hand. It's as though all these hands and minds with such vision invent our dreams and make them come true!