Deauville - A Distinguished Design

Deauville is in the Calvados department in the Basse-Normandie region in northwestern France. With its racecourse, harbor, international film festival, marinas, conference center, villas, Grand Casino and sumptuous hotels, Deauville is regarded as the "queen of the Norman beaches" and one of the most prestigious seaside resorts in all of France. It is the closest seaside when coming from Paris, the city and the nearby region of the Côte Fleurie has long been home to French high society's seaside houses and is often referred to as the Parisian riviera. Since the 19th century, the town of Deauville has been a fashionable holiday resort for the international upper class.

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Deauville silver plate flatware by Oneida Community

This set for 12 of Deauville came from eBay and cost a lot less than an ordinary set of flatware from a retailer.  The original ads for this pattern are from Ladies Home Journal October 1929.

Deauville, France:
F. Scott Fitzgerald mentions Deauville in "The Great Gatsby" as a place Tom Buchanan and Daisy visit on their honeymoon.

Deauville was probably the location inspiration for the fictional casino in Ian Fleming's Casino Royale. The first of the James Bond series largely takes part in a Casino - Fleming had played at Deauville as a young man, and sets his tale of Bond versus Soviet agents in a fictional French gambling resort, drawing parallels with an actual WW2 visit he had made to a Portuguese casino whilst working for the British secret service.

The screen adaption of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Links was set in Deauville.

The Deauville casino is the setting for the heist in Bob le flambeur, directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. It is also held-up in the 2008 movie Mesrine: L'ennemi public № 1.

Deauville was the setting for part of A Man and a Woman.

Deauville, together with Cabourg and Trouville, provides the basis for the Norman coastal resort of Balbec in Marcel Proust's A La Recherche du Temps Perdu (Remembrance of Things Past). 

Deauville was a popular vacation spot for Coco Chanel during her affair with Boy Capel. The two opened her second shop there, which was the first place Chanel took the step from hat making to clothing. Deauville was the birth place of Chanel's clothing career.

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Originally published October 2010 for:

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Thrifty Thursday over at Tales From Bloggeritaville

Endless Summer

Hydrangea macrophylla 'Endless Summer' - Bigleaf Hydrangea, French Hydrangea, Mophead 

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Toile Roses

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St Patrick and The Cherubs

'St Patrick' hybrid tea rose

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Mellow Yellow Monday

I'm Such A Copycat

I saw this flower bucket re-furb at All Things Related using graphics

downloaded from Kristine Mckay Designs and remembered some French

flower buckets out in my garden shed.

One was pastel yellow, one pastel blue from Michael's years ago,

another was a nice heavy weight authentic galvenized bucket. Some spray

paint, clear sealer and some glaze gave my mis-matched flower buckets

a whole new lease on life.

I printed out the graphics onto scrapbook paper, sprayed with clear sealer, glued down with instant decoupage, let dry, then glazed with a water based glaze from Lowe's.  When completely dry all the buckets were sealed with a couple coats of clear sealer.

So my group of mismatched, unloved flower buckets are now destined for

center stage holding roses from my garden this summer.

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Originally posted April 17, 2010 for:

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The Vegetable Bowl

It was always called "the vegetable bowl", don't know why, but it was.

I liked peas and green beans and corn, but I didn't like Brussel sprouts.

I can still see those little round green bits of nastiness rolling around with

the children in the bottom of this vegetable bowl.  Not marked, but hand

painted and most likely French or German it was purchased for a few dollars

around 1950 while we were living with the occupation forces in Germany after WWII.

I didn't like many of the vegetables served in this bowl, but I always loved the children.

Make sure to eat your vegetables.

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Originally published Fall 2010 for:

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My reproduction French Directoire cabinet

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