Aug 30, 2024
Reading Edith Wharton because I'm relying on memories of my grandma's antiques atelier for Gilded Age/Edwardian design (malachite, buhl, those barrel-shaped chinoiserie ceramic stools, Louis Napoleon-era micromosaics, bronze busts, cameos of the children, particular textures of carpet and upholstery, particular stains to the wood, etc.), but nobody DESCRIBES those interiors like Wharton, and I want to evoke her language when I write about the Levinson house