{Midway: Message From the Gyre}

I wonder if there may be some value in simply honoring this in-between place, acknowledging the space of open possibility where we stand. This is the moment of dissolution before the new form emerges, the imaginal space of potential from which all else will flow. As the marine scientist Sylvia Earle says: the next ten years are the most important in the next ten thousand.

                    

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{My Top Professional Icon: Henrietta Spencer-Churchill}

Watch: Lady Henrietta talks about Blenheim Palace in "Moment of Luxury" TV video

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{Comfort in a Rustic Style House}

As Britannica says the Rustic Style, in decorative arts, is any ruralizing influence; more precisely, a type of furniture made of wood or metal, the main components of which are carved and fretted to resemble the branches of trees. Stemming from the idealization of nature and the “simple life” that occurred in the mid-18th century, the vogue for this kind of product persisted well into the 20th century. It was especially popular in Switzerland, Germany, and Austria. It naturally endeared itself to the British Victorians, with their passion for the picturesque, and was also generally admired in the United States, where it is often termed “Adirondack furniture” . 

     Let see the following cozy house in the English Countryside...

{Pictures Source: The English Home Magazine UK}

{The Style of an Early XX Century Hotel; Stills from "Gran Hotel" Show}

Gran Hotel is a Spanish TV series (airing on Antena 3) that takes place in beginning-of-the-century northern Spain, in the fictitious Gran Hotel. s filmed in several points in Santander, with the Palacio de la Magdalena standing as the eponymous Gran Hotel. The story begins in 1905, with the mysterious disappearance and presumed death of Cristina Olmedo (Paula Prendes), maid in the Gran Hotel. Six months later, her brother Julio (Yon Gonzalez) arrives to investigate said disappearance and gets a job in the hotel, becoming friends with Andres (Llorenç Gonzalez), the son of staff manager Ángela (Concha Velasco), as well as with Alicia (Amaia Salamanca), the daughter of the Gran Hotel's family owner, the Alarcón. Julio and Alicia fall in love, living a passionate romance that is though impossible for their difference of class, while they investigate the network of deaths, lies and secrets kept between the Gran Hotel's walls.

The main staircase is located in the entry.

     In my view, the entire cast is excellent except for the protagonist actress (Miss Salamanca), she overreact too much and she lacks experience in drama. In addition, clothing is far from satisfactory. Those who are lovers of Fashion History and Costume - like me- are very sensitive to the details, such as in the case of the women´s hair which has streaks or uneven cuts. For everything else, the art direction is excellent and the decorator -Gloria Vazquez- has done a wonderful work with the filming set. I love the wallpaper and curtains in the every rooms.