Madame Pompadour
My latest obsession….all someone has to do is mention something and it’s off and running through this maze of an internet to learn learn learn….
Tonite it’s Madame de Pompadour, the woman behind the scenes, who designed the Louis XV style. She was responsible for the Petit Trianon (which Mme DuBarry and Marie Antoinette both inherited). Turns out she was the major influenced in the design of furniture, curtains, color, and fashion, and brought writers like Voltaire and painters like Boucher to Versailles. She was an icon that still hasn’t stopped!
Check out her website:
lenni replied:
Hi, Have you ever seen the 1930s movie nana, starring Anna Stenn; it is after the book by Emile Zola. She has the most beautiful bedrooms.
November 7, 2006 at 4:05 pm. Permalink.
claudia replied:
Hi Lenni,
I haven’t seen that and did some research on the web but all I came up with is this:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017196/
It sounds like a great film for inspiration if the bedrooms are as great as you say! Let me know if you get a copy of the film or know where to find it, I’d love to see it and I bet a lot of others would too.
November 7, 2006 at 9:56 pm. Permalink.
lenni replied:
No because i am a silly and spelt her name wrong Nana with Anna Sten and Lionel Atwill a Goldwyn movie directed by Dorothy Arzner 1934. Some of the costumes are by Adrian but I couldn’t find the set designer.
November 8, 2006 at 6:01 am. Permalink.
claudia replied:
I found this: (It’s paraphrased)…Producer Samuel Goldwyn made a film of Emile Zola’s novel about an unrefined Parisian street girl who becomes the toast of high society through her relationship with a famous impresario, only to be caught up in a tragic love affair. Co-stars Phillips Holmes, Lionel Atwill; look closely for Lucille Ball as a chorus girl. Dorothy Arzner directs. AKA: “Lady of the Boulevards.”
Sounds like a great film but hard to find! Anyone have a copy? Thanks for the pics!
November 8, 2006 at 11:26 pm. Permalink.