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Henry David Thoreau, Walden; or, Life in the Woods, 1854

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”  

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Frank Herfort, Rest at old oak, Russian fairytales serie, 2018

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Pierre Buraglio, Fenêtre, 1982, Capc de Bordeaux 

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Ouled Naïl girl, 1905

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Frederic Edwin Church, The rivers of light, 1877, oil on canvas, 1,38 m x 2,14 m, Washington, National Gallery of Art

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Alizee Gamberini & Yana Potter artist 

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Margaux Carpentier, 2020

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Armour-Stiner house in Irvington, New York.

Built in 1860 by financier Paul J. Armour based on the architectural ideas of Orson Squire Fowler, author of The Octagon House: A Home for All Occasions.

The house, plus an observatory, encompasses 780 m2. It includes a barn, a carriage house, a well house used as a gazebo, and the original Lord & Burnham conservatory greenhouse. The house's main floor is surrounded by a veranda decorated with carved wooden gingerbread detailing and lit with gas lamps. The interior of the house includes an entrance hall, a solarium, a library, a curio room, a music room in the Egyptian Revival style, a 360-degree "dance room" added by Stiner, a billiard room, a wine cellar, seven bedrooms and three bathrooms, two kitchens and a pantry.

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To be seen !

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Jakob Macintosh

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The Pumpkin Effigy, illustrated by L.W. Atwater for Harper’s Weekly

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James Tissot, Voie des fleurs, voie des pleurs ou La danse de la mort, 1860, huile sur toile, 37,1 x 122,4 cm, Rhode Island School of Design Photo, Providence, USA © Courtesy of the RISD Museum, Providence

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By Haley Kasof

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Wilfred Bosworth Jenkins, A country house, between 1857-1936, oil on board, 46.3 x 36.2cm, private collection