Inner romantics indeed…I’m weak in the knees for this topic.

One of my most charming personal effects is a delicious ruination I display on a mahogany shelf, and which was dug up after years spent in the depths of the French countryside.

It is an 18^th Century buried treasure box, surely a woman’s, lined in Mauny wallpaper. It was lovingly created and I suppose would have held important documents etc, as it was wrapped in lead before being buried during the French revolution….or this or that war. Whoever found it brilliantly and carefully pealed back the lead, but kept it relatively in tact so the box remains nestled within the furls.

Similarly, Bouke de Vries creates modern works from the shattered remnants of broken porcelain…and Meissen was creating broken patchwork painting on their porcelain back in 1740 - Positively delightful.