© Gaia Son
Brush Up Business With Paint, Paper, Push – Watercolorist, Nan Lombardi
Medium, watercolor 23 x 30 © Nan Lombardi
Elsewhere on FAB:
- Brush Up Business with Paint, Paste, Paper & Push – Tribeca, NY – Oct 11th, 2009
- Brush Up Business Revisited – West Broadway, TriBeCa – Jul 29th, 2013
Wylie & Lochhead – Cabinet Makers & Upholsterers – Mitchell Street- Glasgow, Scotland – Marie Anne O’Donnell
late 1800s © Marie Anne O’Donnell
late 1800s © Marie Anne O’Donnell
Wylie & Lochhead, Limited, Cabinet Makers, Upholsterers, Carvers, Gilders, Paper-hanging Manufacturers, Carpet Warehousemen, &c., 45, Buchanan Street.— – Courtesy of Glasgow West End Addresses (CLICK FOR LARGER IMAGE) http://bit.ly/1xHGSsL
Wylie & Lochhead was a household name in 19th-century Glasgow and beyond, for furnishings of artistic design and high quality craftsmanship. Robert Wylie, a hair and feather merchant and upholsterer, and William Lochhead, who worked in his father’s post-hiring, undertaking and cabinetmaking business, were related by marriage, and in 1829 they formed a partnership, opening premises at 164 Trongate in the East End of Glasgow. Their early success was established when they dealt efficiently with corpses during the 1832 cholera epidemic, undertaking being an activity traditionally associated with cabinetmakers. In 1837 they pioneered the introduction of horse-drawn omnibus services to the city from outlying suburbs and towns. By the1850s, they had started manufacturing their own wallpapers and in 1862 opened their own paper-staining factory in Whiteinch. By the 1870s, they were the first of the Glasgow furnishers to specialise in ship and yacht interiors. – Mackintosh Architecture [for more go to- http://bit.ly/1xHAsK6]
Glasgow Herald – June 13, 1894 © Google Images
Bartissol – Campsegret Rte. N21, France – Gaia Son
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Un million dans un verre
Bartissol
si délicieux à l’apéritifOne million in a glass
Bartissol
So delicious as an aperitif.The slogan alludes to a very popular radio advertising campaign of the 1950s. If you happened to produce a Bartissol cap to the right person (a radio man in disguise) you could win a million centimes. – from Bartolomeo Mecánico’s Roadside Painted Advertisements [www.elve.net/padv/]
Pernod (France)
Tile-red, amber, amber “hors d’âge”: whatever its style, Bartissol presents aromas packed with Mediterranean sunshine. Created in 1904 by Edmond Bartissol, after the second world war the aperitif obtained Appellation Rivesaltes Contrôlée, making it a feature at the most festive gastronomic events. Perfect neat, on ice, with a slice of orange or lemon. – Pernod Website (France)
Edmond Bartissol was a French politician born on 20 December 1841 in Portel (Aude), and died on 16 August 1916 in Paris .
Civil engineer, he participated in the drilling [of the] Suez Canal in 1866. In 1874, he participated in the railway construction in Spain and Portugal and the construction of the metro Lisbon. He was a member of the Pyrénées-Orientales from 1889 to 1893 sitting with moderate Republicans. Beaten by Jules Pams in 1893, he ran in 1898 in the Aude, where he was narrowly elected and disabled. Became mayor of Fleury-Merogis , he finds a parliamentary seat in the Pyrenees-Orientales from 1902 to 1910 serving in Progressive Republicans .
In 1904 he created the sweet wine that bears his name, Bartissol . – Wikipedia (France)
Le Mieux Informe – Le Petit Journal – Six Pages – Limeuil, Dordogne FR – Gaia Son
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Konstantin Stoitzner (1863–1934): “Le petit journal”
© Gaia Son
Charles Terront pictured on the front page of the 20 September 1891 edition of Le Petit Journal after his Paris-Brest et retour victory. n 1891, Le Petit Journal created the Paris–Brest–Paris road cycling race. Its editor Pierre Giffard promoted it as Paris-Brest et retour in his editorials which he signed “Jean-sans-Terre”. It is now established as the oldest long-distance cycling road event. – Wikipedia
Better Informed, The Little Newspaper – Six Pages
Chapelle de St Martin, just North of the village of Limeuil, Dordogne – Gaia Son
Le Petit Journal was established in 1863 [and ceased publication in 1944]. In the 1890s, at the height of its popularity, the newspaper had a circulation of a million copies, and by 1884 it also included a weekly illustrated supplement…It was founded by Moïse Polydore Millaud. In its columns were published several serial novels of Émile Gaboriau and of Ponson du Terrail. – Wikipedia
- Also see Bartolomeo Mecánico’s Roadside Painted Advertisements [www.elve.net/padv/en/newsp.htm]
Homestretch Bar & Grill – Gravesend, Brooklyn
© Vincenzo Aiosa
Three waitresses all wearing
Black diamond earrings
Talking about zombies
and Singapore slings
No trouble in their faces
Not one anxious voice
None of the crazy you get
From too much choice
The thumb and the satchel
Or the rented Rolls-Royce
And you think she knows something
By the second refill
You think she’s enlightened
As she totals your bill
You say “show me the way
To Barangrill”
Joni Mitchell – Barangrill, For The Roses (1972)
