{Happy B-Day Grace!}

“I would like to be remembered as someone who accomplished useful deeds, and who was a kind and loving person. I would like to leave the memory of a human being with a correct attitude and who did her best to help others”  - (Princess Grace)

A day like today in 1929 last Princess Grace of Monaco borned in Philadelphia, USA. Now she would turns 82.

Grace was a shy girl, daughter of John "Jack" B. Kelly and Margaret Majer, and sister of Margaret Katherine "Peggy", John B. Kelly Jr "Kell" and Elizabeth Ann "Lizzie". During her childhood she dídn´t like sports like her relatives, but she showed an extraordinary talent for theatre and fashion drawings. In 1947 she moved to New York for studying dramatic art at NY school of Dramatic Art.

{From Up to Down: Grace with her younger sister Lizzie, teenager Grace at her shore house in Ocean City (NJ), photo of her at her school in Philly, Grace and Lizzie in England, Grace and her friends and Grace in 1948}


She become a great star in just only four year. In her first film for Hitchcock everybody got in love with her. She usually appeared in magazine´s covers and she was selected as winner in the Academy Awards of 1955.

{From Up to Down: Grace poses in Jamaica and captures by the Howell Connant´s camera, Grace for ELLE magazine, and Grace in Los Angeles in 1956}


{Grace poses with her Oscar in 1955}


1955...That was absolutly her year because she was the special guest at Cannes Film Festival, where she met Prince Rainier III of- the little and unknowed (by that time)country in the south of France -called Monaco. They got married a year afther, in April 19th 1956.


{Princess Grace and Rainier before their wedding, in her apartment in 5th ave NY}


{Grace in the Civil Wedding Day}

{Religious Ceremony pictures}

Grace was concius of her new role as Princess since the beginning and she was admired and loved by the people too.





 In 1957 borned her first daughter, Caroline. In 1958 Albert II borned. Her last girl was Stephanie, who came to the world in 1965.

{Family pictures from 1960 to 1969}

She couldn´t follow her career as actress but anyway she could do something creative: poetry and flowers art.

{Princess Grace with her floral works in a special expo in Paris, c. 1978}


{Princess Grace at Princess Grace Theatre´sBallet Openning in Monaco}

{Pictures of Grace in the early 70s}

Tragically Princess Grace died in a car accident when she returned to Monaco from Roc Angel, their summer residence. She died in 1982. Today she would be 82.


{Portraits of Princess Grace in 1982}

{Sometimes an extraordinary woman borned -since Joan of Arc to Catherine "the Great"- and Grace was one of them. That is why people never forget her}.

Happy Birthday dear Princess, wherever you are now...

{...}

I want to return to London...

{Winter Pure Light + Spring Flowers}

{Happy B-Day Vivien!}

“I never thought it was possible to love anybody so much or quite so completely, or that anybody should be so wonderfully abundant and prodigal to me in everything I’ve wanted most.” - Laurence Olivier about her wife,Vivien Leigh (5 November 1913 – 8 July 1967)

You were nothing less than a pure blessing to this world.

       A woman that was so exquisite and stunning that there are no words to even describe her. Her talent, intelligence and shocking, jaw-dropping, astonishing beauty has inspired me more than I can even express.

      As years go by, it becomes more and more apparent that actresses, and women of that caliber simply do not exist anymore.

There not will be another...

{There´re Still Flowers}

"I like people with depth, I like people with emotion, I like people with a strong mind, an interesting mind, a twisted mind, and also someone that can make me smile."

{An Eaton Square Apartment´s Living Room; How Would I Decorate it?}

         One of the best addresses in London, and the jewel in the crown of the Duke of Westminster’s Grosvenor Estate, demand for property Eaton Square refuses to abate. As one of the few remaining residential central London garden squares, the houses here have long been frequented by the great and the good, from politicians to film stars.

          The iconic Grade II listed stucco façades, pillars, and balconies all set behind immaculate black railings speak of a time when London was a more civilised place, and in fact one of the most attractive things about Eaton Square is its history.Developed by Thomas Cubitt in the 1820s, its location made it the perfect stopping off point en route to the Kings Road, then used as a private road by Royalty headed for Kew or Hampton Court. This made Eaton Square the place to live if you wanted the ear of the monarch, and although owners’ direct influence with the Crown may have somewhat diminished, an element of cache remains. ‘It’s arguably the most famous residential location in the world,’ says Michael Davis from Ayrton Wylie, who often sell property on the square.

A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI CHAIRS

A PAIR OF ITALIAN BLACK AND GILT-JAPANNED TOLE PEINTE LAMPS

A PAIR OF LOUIS XV STYLE WALL APPLIQUES     

 

A PAIR OF GEORGE III STYLE GILTWOOD AND GESSO DEMI-LUNE PIER TABLES                   

                 

A CREAM WATERMARK SILK SOFA                                    

TWO PAIRS OF TAUPE SATIN STRIPED TAFFETA CURTAINS       

AN AUBUSSON STYLE CARPET                                    

FOUR JAPANESE LACQUER BOXES AND A BRONZE CENSER

A CHINESE LACQUERED WOOD BIRDCAGE

A GROUP OF ORIENTAL BLUE AND WHITE CERAMICS FROM THE XVIII

A PAIR OF ELECTROPLATED THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA                                                   

                     

FOUR WILLIAM & MARY STYLE SILVER-PLATED TWO BRANCH WALL

LIGHTS FROM THE XIX                              

SOME EDWARDIAN PHOTOGRAPH FRAMES

A GLASS AND ORMOLU CHANDELIER                                    

A FRENCH GILT GESSO OVERMANTEL MIRROR                                    

A SOUTH EUROPEAN RED JAPANNED BUREAU BOOKCASE                                    

A PAIR OF LARGE CHESTERFIELD SOFAS

FRENCH ABUSSION CUSHIONS

TWO ENGLISH PARIAN BUSTS, A FIGURE OF A WATER-CARRIER AND A BISCUIT PORCELAIN CACHE-POT                          

         

A LARGE WALNUT BREAK-FRONT OPEN BOOKCASE

PAINTINGS FROM XVIII ARTIST JOSHUA REYNOLDS WHICH REMEMBER THE SLPENDOUR OF GEORGIAN ERA.

AND FINALLY...

A CHINESSE WALLPAPER WITH TREES, BIRDS AND A GREEN BLACKGROUND.

{The last antiques are from Christie´s England Sales in Belgravia.}