Reflections from the archive

 In the Escher museum. One for Weekend Street/Reflections here.

Art

 Thorsten Brinkmann trousers, shoes and plastic legs in the artist's laundry basket  . Seen in the Muncipal museum from The Hague.

Wet

 One for Weekend Street/Reflections here.

Boat on dry land

From the Archive. A stroll on the beach promenade in The Hague.

 

On the beach boulevard near Kijkduin ( the Hague)

 One for Signs2 here.

Also in The Hague it rains

Just before Christmas

Hope the weather will be better in the coming days. One for Weekend Reflections here.

Christmas Sky

Skywatch in the Reinkenstraat The Hague yesterday evening. One for Skywatch Friday here.

Used again

Still from our day on the beach a part of the fence made from washed wood wreck. One for good fences here.

A day at the beach (4)

I don't think that he has much eye for the sky. One for skywatch friday here.

Silent sound

In the gemeente museum the hague was on the exhibition Ode to dutch Fashion also a space with disco clothing and a so called silent disco.

It got you in the mood without disturbing the other museum guests. One for our world tuesday here.

A day at the beach (3)

Its not often that we have such a blue sky as here above the little lighthouse at Kijkduin.

One for skywatch friday here.

A day at the beach (2)

Cabin made of wreckage washed up the beach near Kijkduin (the Hague). I think this is one for CDP shelter theme here.

The fence was really okay.

A day at the beach

Somewhere in Holland for Our World Tuesday here.

Was for a museum visit in the Hague and because it was beautiful weather we went also to the beach.

RENÉ LALIQUE (1860 – 1945)

The same museum of my posting of yesterday had also an exhibition of the glass works of René Lalique. The famous french glass designer ( also a gifted jeweller) from the art nouveau and art deco period in france.

It is for sure worth a visit.

The dragonflies look real but are just engravings in glass. Lalique made mass production from highly designed glass possible with his own glass factory in Combs-la-Ville in 1909 by using a kind of crystal glass with 12% lead oxide ( normally 24% is used) and metal malls. The growing of the perfume industry with their glass bottles was a great help as one of the main designers for these. They must have a highly distinctive appearance and still be payable in mass production.

Summer Expo 2013

Every year we have an exposition of art made by amateurs and professionals open for everyone in the netherlands. After very strong selections by different jury's from the 10000 applicants 360 are chosen for exposition in the "Gemeentemuseum" the Hague.

All artforms are welcome but it must fulfill the main Theme and that was for this year earth. Like this tapestry with all the animals.

Another animal, Pino, with the title "On the roadside" also fulfilled the theme earth.

This table layout was called " gedekt gewas ". It has a double meaning in dutch and in translation something like fertilized plants or table made up get lost.

Here famous photo's of the world history scratched with burned off matches on carton.

Visitors of the exposition are asked to put the number of their favorite art piece on the admission ticket and put it in a box. At the end of the exposition the artist of the artwork with the most votes win the price of this summer expo.

Duesenberg

Duesenberg SJ Lagrande Dual-Cowl Pheaton from 1935.

The price of this car was $8500 for the chassis with motor and $12000 for the bodywork. In the same time you could buy a new Ford for $ 500. Owned by people like Clark Gable, Greta Garbo and king Alfonso XIII of Spain the car had a compressor and could reach a speed of 210 km/h. From this model 35 where made. With thanks to the Louwman car museum.

One for weekend reflections here.

Grand cars.

Talbot Lago T26 grand sport coupé Saoutchik from 1948.

Only 38 were made . I didn't know we had an car museum in the Netherlands and second that it is so big . The Louwman Museum in the Hague started as the oldest private car collection with the purchase in 1934 of a twenty year old dodge. Today it consist of more then 230 cars and a lot of connected other stuff. I walked around for 4 hours and after that time I decided that it was enough and had still not seen everything so I have to come back another time.

This car called "Old Lightning" in translation is for dutch comic readers well known. What I didn't know is that it really existed and that the original from Spyker ( a dutch firm for cars ) made in 1912 was used as example by M. Toonder the author of the comic about Olivier B. Bumble and Tom Puss.

Here the original "Old Lightning" from the comic. The Spyker 7-HP from 1912.

A cozy corner

Just a place to drink some coffee with your friends . I like the furniture, the color and the used look after years of use. In reality this is a display in a museum of a famous café in the Hague where young artists were meeting in the fifties and sixties. In my memory it was the Post-horn but I am not sure of it.  

A little to big perhaps.

This mural at the photo museum in the hague is perhaps a little to big for comfort.

I dedicate this one to monday murals here.