House of Balenciaga

Left to right: Bolero jacket, Balenciaga for EISA, 1947, Spain. © Museo Cristóbal Balenciaga. Lace cape, Cristóbal Balenciaga, about 1960, Paris. Museum no. T.141-1982. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Left to right: Model Wearing Balenciaga Evening Dress and Cape, photograph by Irving Penn for Vogue, 1950. © Condé Nast. Sack dress, Cristóbal Balenciaga, 1957, Paris. Museum no. T.90-1973. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Left to right: Babydoll evening dress, Cristóbal Balenciaga, 1958, Paris. Museum no. T.334-1997. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Alberta Tiburzi in 'envelope' dress by Cristóbal Balenciaga. Harper's Bazaar, June 1967. © Hiro 1967

Ideas for the flat entrance door.

 

Yes, this is how it looks at the moment. At least the roof has been repaired 

and all the shrubs and trees cleaned up.

First viewing of the house, this is what I saw.

I had to climb these rock steps to go into the house through the back area on my first viewing.. On climbing the steps with help of the caretaker I said this is to maintain. I think I had decided to buy the house before seeing the house inside.

“If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap. If you want happiness for a day — go fishing. If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a life time — help someone else.” — Chinese proverb

 “When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” — Helen Keller

“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” — Joshua J. Marine”

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

“The only way that we can live is if we grow. The only way we can grow is if we change. The only way we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we are exposed is if we throw ourselves into the open.” — C. Joybell

“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.” — Henry van Dyke

“I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.” — Corazon Aquino”

 “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” — George Bernhard Shaw

 “He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because he fears.” — Michel De Montaigne

 “We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty.” — Mother Theresa

 Two elderly grandparents from a retirement center were sitting on a bench under a tree when one turns to the other and says:

“Slim, I’m 83 years old now and I’m just full of aches and pains.

I know you’re about my age. How do you feel?”

Slim says, “I feel just like a newborn baby.”

“Really! Like a newborn baby?” “

Yep. No hair, no teeth, and I think I just wet my pants”

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