#beautiful object

[mote-historie]

Cartier Paris, Vanity Case, ca. 1927; Produced by Cartier (Paris, France); Manufactured by Henri Lavabre (French); Lapis lazuli, carved jade, carved ruyi, coral, diamonds, lacquer, mirrored plate glass, gold, platinum; 9.9 × 5.2 × 1.7 cm (3 7/8 × 2 1/16 × 11/16 in.);

Photo: Doug Rosa

Jeweled Splendors of the Art Deco Era: The Prince and Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan Collection features exquisite work from premier jewelry houses of Europe and America – among them Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, Lacloche Frères, Boucheron and Bulgari – dating from 1910 to 1938.

[emmaklee]

shoe horn | Harald Nielsen-Jensen

[via Iliazd (flickr)]

[beebfreeb]

(it's like kisses to them)

Drawing of my regular laptop who is so normal!

[beidak-art]

Studies and sketches from movie stills, first 3 are from ,,Ostatni strzał" (1959), last one is from ,,Lunatycy" (1960)

[robinsceramics]

The magnificent catbeast thrives in snowy conditions; its gorilla-like arms are theorized to help compensate for the weight of its neck.

image description: a big, sturdy creature made of porcelain. It has a catlike head, thick limbs, and a leopard-like tail. The white clay is covered with a translucent pale-golden glaze that has crackled, leaving little lines all over the sculpture.

[boxxedset]

My absolute favorite watch . . . I used to have one, and who knows what happened to it. Been fetishizing it ever since. Someday . . .

[canisalbus]

gothic lolita machete came to me in a dream

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[realbeefman]

robert chase one of the characters of all time. hes blonde. he went to seminary school. he purposefully murdered a patient. he’s a vapid slut. allergic to strawberries. was caption of his college bowling team. desperately needs to be on antidepressants. he’s divorced. his ex-wife was/is in love with his dadboss. it’s heavily implied that this is part of why he married her to begin with. he’s been fired multiple times but he keeps coming back like a fucked-up obedient boomerang. he’s the best surgeon in the hospital. all this while having the personality of a sopping wet cardboard box of corn flakes that somebody poured milk into and let mildew.

[bahoreal]

i will love you if i see you every tuesday

and i will love you if i never see you again

lemony snicket, the beatrice letters

[snixx]

if hearing a girl criticize consumerism and beauty/makeup/anti-body hair culture or even just saying they don't like wearing makeup or shaving or performing femininity immediately makes you label them a pick-me maybe that's your own conscience or internalised guilt projecting just sayin'. maybe she isn't the one who thinks you're anti-feminist for wearing makeup (let's face it she most probably doesn't because most people fucking wear makeup) but your visceral defensiveness at someone just existing outside conventional beauty standards says more about you than it probably does about them

[elegantbeauty]

[rockingtheorange]

From @/mekhiturner on Twitter

[escapismsworld]

Roman bird-shaped glass vessels were used as perfume bottles. The liquid was sealed inside the vessels and the tip of the tail had to be broken to remove the perfume. The one pictured (c. 1st century AD) is still intact and filled with the scented content.

[tolbre]

As someone who has recently rewatched shrek I gotta say: Shrek is what Beauty and the Beast wishes it was.

They both have the same moral: Beauty comes from within.

But they handle it a lot differently.

Shrek is portrayed as "ugly" the whole time. So is Fionas Ogre form as well. But they fall in love anyways, because guess what: Beauty is found within.

And in part two they even have the option to be conventionally attractive, yet Fiona refuses because she fell in love with the ogre shrek, not with a handsome human.

And they embrace that and love eachother anyways.

In Beauty and the beast it's largely similar but in the end it's all down the fucking toilet because guess what: the beast is actually a very conventionally attractive prince.

Like "don't worry, you don't have to be together with that "hideous beast" because he is a hot man now".

In this movie the Beauty thats found within is all superficial optical beauty that everyone in this movie actually has.

Thus I conclude Shrek is a masterpiece, Beauty and the Beast is a fun movie but message wise, superficial garbage.

Also: (Talking about the remake here) Imagine the powermove of ending the movie by having Emma Watson, one of the most attractive women in acting, turn into a beast as well to show that, yes she is beautiful but her real beauty comes from within as well.

Thanks for reading my rant :3

[terriblygrimm]

unstoppable force

immovable object