Photo of Joan Crawford (1920s), photo of fireworks in Versailles and a Christmas tree i designed based on one of my patterns. Joan Crawford played on a movie i liked a lot : “Women” directed by George Cukor in 1939.
We made Alsatian pastries for Christmas : Cinnamon stars or Zimtsterne (soft cinnamon cakes recovered with icing sugar), Kouglof (Brioche with raisins and almonds, shaped in a special mould with a hole in the middle) , Spiced bredele, Florentins (biscuits with almonds, crystallized orange and lemon barks), Stollen (Christmas fruit bread with almond paste), Spitzbueben…
Guy Untereiner’s illustrations (angel and heart). The background was designed by me on the base of mosaics in Sicily.
Vintage illustration, pattern i designed and Andrea Fohrman’s earrings.
Emily and Fin’s velvet dress and Christmas decoration in the Bâle Christmas market.
Wilhelm Schweizer Pewter’s angel and Christmas lights of Strasbourg. Photos of Christmas lights in Strasbourg :
Miniature of a Christmas village at the Bâle Christmas market, figurine of a little girl (found in the shop of the Spielgzung Welten museum) and the lights of my Christmas tree. Different version using Wilhelm Schweizer Pewter’s angels :
Erté illustration, gold pattern i designed (based on a photo of the German architecture). Art Deco emerged in 1925, at the World’s Fair in Paris, France. This art movement is called Art Deco in reference to the name of the “Exposition Internationale des Arts décoratifs et industriels modernes”.
The Christmas tree i did with my aunt with Villeroy & Boch’s Christmas ornaments :
Christmas window and children figurines in the shop of the Spieglzeug Welten museum in Bâle, Switzerland and an artificial fir tree.
Wilhelm Schweizer Pewter’s Christmas ornaments (Santa Claus and an angel) and Hansi’s illustration of Alsace during Christmas’ night.
Camille Pissarro’s painting (Piette’s House at Montfoucault, snow effect, 1874). Wilhelm Schweizer Pewter’s Christmas ornaments (Santa claus, house, fir trees, reindeers and an angel).