In Aesop’s Fable of The Wolf and the Lamb, a tyrannical wolf justifies killing an innocent lamb. French Art Deco artist Benjamin Rabier (1864-1939) illustrated the tale in the 1906 copy of Les fables de la Fontaine. Literature and art often depicted wolves as fearsome villains. English author Joan Aiken (1924-2004) used the animal as a metaphor for the evil people surrounding two young cousins in her children’snovel The Wolves of WilloughbyChase. American writer and artist Edward Gorey (1925-2000) provided a macabre illustration for the book cover. In Eastern European fairy tales, the wolf is a sinister creature of the forest along with BabaYagas as seen in the Art Nouveau watercolor Three Women and Three Wolves by Swiss decorative artist EugèneGrasset (1845-1917). At one time hunted to near extinction in America, very few wolves survived in Europe. Now, Man has become the Wolf and the Wolf is the Lamb.
My writing career began during the Great Recession. Before the downturn in the economy, I worked in sales and marketing for elite San Francisco antique dealers and top "To the Trade" furnishing showrooms. I now utilize my knowledge to write for and about the interior design industry. In addition to being Marketing Director at COUPAR Consulting, I am Editor at Large of California Homes Magazine and contribute to various other outlets.
Lovely musings, peacock images of course perfection. As I have read more of your older posts, I am honored that you are fond of my own.
Leonard Greco
Belgian Pearls:
Iam so pleased to have discovered your blog! Your blog is wonderful! I love to learn more about antiques! Antiques are my real passion! I love to come back to visit your blog! And thank you so much for sharing your knowledge about antiques!
Greet Levefre
The Blue Remembered Hills™:
Kendra, you find the most beautiful images for your posts. If you don't mind I shall (and maybe I've said this before) I shall have my students link to your blog. Blue
Chic Provence:
What an interesting, fascinating blog! Thanks so much, I will be following you now and will add you to Chic Provence blogroll!
Kit Golson
Craig Leavitt:
Holy, Holy, Wholly fulfilling. I'll never leave you unopened, I'll never delete you, no matter what you find, say or show. I'm above board--and never down a hole.
CL
Diane Dorrans Saeks:
Kendra Boutell’s decorative- and fine-arts blog offers erudite posts about a range of topics, from obscure artists and architecture to Louis Cartier’s Panthère brooch and artist Leonard Tsuguoharu Foujita’s cats. Any flights of fancy are balanced out with in-depth research and beautiful pictures.
Diane Dorrans Saeks
It's About Time:
Just took your blog off my list of blogs about antiques & art and put it on my blogs "just for joy" list. It is a short list, but each blog on it makes me happy & teaches me with each posting. And that is what you do.
BWS
Kimball + Company:
"Belle Époque", so aptly named, is what you evoke Kendra, time and time again.
Kimball S. Diamond
little augury:
Where ever you take us, I will always be trailing along.
pgt
ROSE C'EST LA VIE:
Kendra, this is one of many of your posts I've just been reading. I can't put you down! Your erudite and concise lessons on art history are a real joy. Thank you.
Rosie West
le style et la matière:
I see we have some of the same obsessions and I will certainly be back for more!
le style et la matière
And From My Cousin Carole:
Wherever do you find these wonderful things? I am still being dazzled, in quiet moments of reading; your writings that teach and invite little mysteries of knowing.