GREEN in winter

         

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Murano glass,  1961

         

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a textile pattern,  2011

      

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a Robert Williams painting       see full size

        

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a textile from India, 1900?

           

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 1960s Scott toilet paper magazine advertisement

         

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a D. Botts illustration,  1957       see full size

         

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Iván Navarro,  2011 art
         

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a 1901 tapestry,  German

         

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this green uranium glass is a vaguely radioactive

         

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"Loudmouth Lime" from 'Funny Face',  the 1960s powdered kids' drink

         

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a 1970s candy wrapper       see full size

         

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1925 Grenoble Exposition Internationale

         

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1877 ornament,  China

       

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a Bernie Fuchs magazine illustration       see full size

         

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chromium oxide

         

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glass doorknobs

         

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a 1930s metal fireplace screen

         

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an Edward Petrovich Hau 1865 painting of part of
the Hermitage in Russia       see full size

           

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 A 1955 fashion illustration

         

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Whitefriars glass,  1957       see full size

         

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"Flora's Feast"  an old bookbinding

         

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a Hans Hinterreiter print       see full size

         

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detail from a Marcello Dudovich poster illustration

         

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a 1963 Lamborghini concept car       see full size

         

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a Sven Palmqvist 1955 glass

         

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an Eva Cellini 1966 illustration for a children's book

         

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Malachite from below

        

Green 1       Green 2       Green 3

 

early MANNEQUINS and window display

       

Early Mannequins & Window Displays

           

a 1904 mannequin in a store window

     

in 1913 a new mannequin appears in the window, 

 prettier and with a better wax head 

    

... one year later,  a new wax bust has replaced the old mannequins AND the store owner's wife

         

by 1917,  mannequins have replaced the store owner himself  ...

        

1917 customers don't bother to notice that stores are newly owned by mannequins,

and frankly they don't care

       

Early Mannequins & Window Displays

          

a 1917 child mannequin

       

Early Mannequins & Window Displays

          

Simpsons in 1940s Toronto       see full size

       

Early Mannequins & Window Displays

          

Pierre Imans design mannequins,  1930s?       see full size

       

Early Mannequins & Window Displays

          

1917       see full size

       

Early Mannequins & Window Displays

          

1918 sidewalk pedestrians watched mannequins watching mannequin feet 

see full size

       

Early Mannequins & Window Displays

           

if this 1917 window production displays only two dresses,  what must

they cost?  It's questions like these that keep us outside looking in ...

now we're being asked to move along       see full size

       

Early Mannequins & Window Displays

         

1925 Paris Industrial Arts Expo mannequins

       

Early Mannequins & Window Displays

          

a 1927 mannequin

       

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a giant butterfly in a 1934 window display for fabrics       see full size

       

Early Mannequins & Window Displays

          

a 1934 window display for fabrics,  with an odd pose from the mannequin

       

Early Mannequins & Window Displays

          

1934       see full size

       

Early Mannequins & Window Displays

          

1934 mannequins ... dark emotionless blocks of men       see full size

       

Early Mannequins & Window Displays

           

a partial mannequin in 1934
      

Early Mannequins & Window Displays

          

1934 mannequin heads only       see full size

       

Early Mannequins & Window Displays

           

not quite mannequins in 1937

      

Early Mannequins & Window Displays

           

an unusual image in an old advertisement for a hair product

     

Early Mannequins & Window Displays

         

1945

     

Early Mannequins & Window Displays

         

a 1948 inflatable mannequin