Yes, Wonderful Things

A ramshackle place for mini-obsessions, fleeting interests and grand plans. Collected by a female Antipodean living in London and dabbling in the dark arts of book design while wedged somewhere between a small shelf in Tesco and a virtual shopping cart.
Can’t get those costumes out of my head. After a bit of internet scrabbling today I found out that my own national gallery in Canberra actually owns a lot of these costumes which they picked up at auction in 1973-some brilliant foresight on their part. There is in fact an exhibition on at the moment-get thee to Canberra fellow Australian-ers… …This one is from the NGA’s collection—a costume designed by Natalia Goncharova for the production of ‘Le Coq D’or’ in 1937.

Can’t get those costumes out of my head. After a bit of internet scrabbling today I found out that my own national gallery in Canberra actually owns a lot of these costumes which they picked up at auction in 1973-some brilliant foresight on their part. There is in fact an exhibition on at the moment-get thee to Canberra fellow Australian-ers…

…This one is from the NGA’s collection—a costume designed by Natalia Goncharova for the production of ‘Le Coq D’or’ in 1937.

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