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Hattie Carnegie jewelry

Hattie Carnegie jewelry, 1955

Vintage Hattie Carnegie jewelry, 1955

Hattie Carnegie jewelry.

Successful American jewelry and fashion designer in the 1920s-1950s Hattie Carnegie was born Henrietta Kanengeiser on March 15, 1889 in Vienna, Austria (died 22 February 1956 in New York). Henrietta was born the second of seven children of Isaac Kanengeiser and his wife Helen Kranczer. In 1900 their family emigrated to the United States of America. The 16-year-old Henrietta worked as a secretary in the Macy’s Store, one of the famous New York department stores. It was her father, Jewish tailor, who had introduced her to the world of fashion. Elegant and beautiful Henrietta designed her own clothes and accessories. Henrietta adopted the name Hattie Carnegie after she had met the local dressmaker Rose Ruth Purchaser. In 1909 Hattie Carnegie and Rose Ruth opened their own fashion business on East 49th Street in New York. Nine years later she founded the Hattie Carnegie, Inc.
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Spanish artist Jose Escofet

Spanish artist Jose Escofet

Pink flowers. Beautiful still life painting by Spanish artist Jose Escofet

Spanish artist Jose Escofet
Born in 1930 in Terrassa (Province of Barcelona), Spain, Jose Escofet had worked as a free lance graphic artist in Barcelona for 25 years. However, he moved to England in 1979. Currently, the artist lives with his English wife and 3 children in England. During his long artistic career he had experimented with different media including Pumice, Latex and Marble dust, through expressionism and abstraction, and later returned to figurative painting. The main inspiration for the artist is nature with its flowers, landscapes, and every living creature. Jose Escofet has always admired the Dutch and Spanish Schools of Still Life painting. Flowers are at the core of his paintings, and he likes to play with proportions and create strange morphing of plants and creatures. Jose Escofet admits that he is trying to express his belief that in nature we are all interconnected and of equal importance – be it a plant, an insect or a human being.
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Enamelist jeweler Nikolay Suslov

Beautiful enamel flowers by Russian Enamelist jeweler Nikolay Suslov

Beautiful enamel flowers by Russian Enamelist jeweler Nikolay Suslov

Russian Enamelist jeweler Nikolay Suslov is a child of the war, deaf and dumb from birth. Born September 25, 1941 in Kostroma, he was the son of students of Kostroma Textile Institute. Then it was impossible to predict that he would be a Honorary Citizen of his native city of Kostroma. Nikolay Suslov has served the fatherland about 20 years as a rector of his Alma Mater. He is a creator of a dynasty, which has given about 100 years of excellent service to the university. Passion for creativity woke up in Nikolay Suslov quite early. For him, who was born deaf and disabled, classes in drawing and painting were successful adaptation. Children’s Art Classes at the school contributed to the development of creative abilities. Boarding school for deaf children, in which he studied, paid much attention to the crafts lessons. Natural hard work, wise parents and teachers helped to develop the sensitive artistic ability and the right choice of profession.
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Russian Royal Children’s toys

Russian Royal Children's toys. The Grand Duchesses Maria and Olga with their dolls

Russian Royal Children’s toys. Grand Duchesses Maria and Olga with their dolls

Russian Royal Children’s toys

Beautiful retro collection of The Russian Royal Children’s toys exhibited in the Museum of Toys in Sergiev Posad, Moscow, Russia. From 1918 to 1931, permanent exhibitions took place the at the Alexander Palace in Tsarskoye Selo – “Children’s half”, “The Room of the younger princesses” or “Heir’s room.” After the 1931 the exposition was closed. The toys and things of the royal children were distributed to orphanages, asylums. And since then, the traces of the royal toys were officially lost. Those that didn’t disappear in orphanages, appeared on the deposit of the Toy Museum in 1932.
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French actress Claude Jade

French actress Claude Jade in "Stolen kisses"

Poster “Stolen kisses”, French actress Claude Jade

French actress Claude Jade
Born on October 8th 1948 in Dijon, France, Claude Jade was the daughter of Professor. She spent three years at the Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in Dijon, where in 1964 received the prize for ‘Best Actress’ for her performance as Agnes in Moliere polemical ‘Criticism on the ‘School for Wives’. After moving to Paris, Jade became a student of Jean – Laurent Cochet in the theater of Edward VII and began appearing in a number of television projects, including the role of Sylvia played in the TV series ‘The Rare Birds’. During the performance in the role of Frida in ‘Henri IV’ directed by Pirandello, the actress was noticed by the director Francois Truffaut, who was immediately conquered by her beauty, manners and ‘joie de vivre’.
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Artist Sir Winston Churchill

Artist Sir Winston Churchill

Artist Sir Winston Churchill

Artist Sir Winston Churchill. Few people know that British politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was also an amateur artist, honorary member of the Royal Academy of Arts. He discovered his passion for painting immediately, started painting at the age of 40. And never stopped, having created a big collection of more than 500 paintings! This passion helped Churchill get rid of depression, forget about all the squabbles and troubles of big politics. Winston drew everywhere: at home, in Britain, during numerous trips to different countries. He painted portraits, interiors, but especially loved to go out with his easel on the “plein air” and paint landscapes.
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Marc Chagall Stained-glass windows

Marc Chagall Stained-glass windows

Painted by Marc Chagall Stained-glass windows

Marc Chagall stained-glass windows
Great artist, Marc Chagall lived for nearly one hundred years, 80 of which he had spent creating a fantastic world full of biblical legends, people and things around him. It is a story interspersed with reality, past and present. Chagall charmed all with his beautiful poetic works, soft and fabulous images. Since the late 1950s, Chagall has made a lot of stained-glass windows for Catholic churches, Lutheran churches, synagogues and other public buildings in France, Italy, USA, Israel, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
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Czech beauty Paulina Porizkova

Czech beauty Paulina Porizkova

Model and actress, Czech beauty Paulina Porizkova

Czech beauty Paulina Porizkova
One of the most beautiful women in the history of the world fashion industry, the Czech top model Paulina Porizkova was not very well known in our country, but in the West her name in the 80th and 90th was a symbol of the classic aristocratic and absolute beauty. She became the first woman from Eastern Europe, who received worldwide fame on catwalks around the world and appeared on the covers of major magazines of the world. Her perfectly proportionate face seemed to radiate generosity and incredible pedigree, it was a working tool in the multi-million dollar contract with beauty cosmetics giant Estee Lauder. Matte skin, blue eyes and natural blond hair – a beauty Paulina Porizkova hypnotized the entire world. It is this type of appearance for many years have become the most valuable in the modeling so far.
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Swedish beauty Anita Ekberg

Swedish beauty Anita Ekberg

Cult sex symbol of 1950-1960s, Swedish beauty Anita Ekberg (29 September 1931 – 11 January 2015)

Swedish beauty Anita Ekberg
Hollywood and Italian actress and model, crowned Miss Sweden in 1951, Anita Ekberg was a cult sex symbol of 1950-1960s. Anita Ekberg was born Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg, on 29 September 1931, in Malmo, Skane, Sweden. In the large family she was the eldest girl and the sixth of eight children. She started her career as a fashion model. In 1951, Anita Ekberg won the beauty pageant in Sweden, and went to the United States to compete for the Miss Universe crown, though she didn’t speak English. Anita Ekberg was one of six most beautiful finalists, but didn’t win the contest. In the United States, Anita met Hollywood producer Howard Hughes, who advised her to change her nose, teeth and name (he said “Ekberg” was too difficult to pronounce). Anita Ekberg refused, saying that “when I become famous people will learn to pronounce it, and if I don’t – it will not matter”.
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