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Cottage gardens typify the cottagecore aesthetic.. Cottagecore (sometimes referred to as countrycore or farmcore) [1] [2] is an aesthetic idealising rural life. Originally based on a rural European life, [3] it was developed throughout the 2010s and was first named cottagecore on Tumblr in 2018. [4]
Swinging glass doors are a better choice than the typical sliding glass doors, since they offer a much tighter seal, [7] but glass – even the best type of glass, chosen according to the climate zone – is always a poor insulator, making doors based on them a poor choice from a thermal comfort perspective.
Stanford White was born in New York City in 1853, the son of Richard Grant White, a Shakespearean scholar, and Alexina Black (née Mease) (1830–1921). White's father was a dandy and Anglophile with little money but many connections to New York's art world, including the painter John LaFarge, the stained-glass artist Louis Comfort Tiffany and the landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.
American Gothic is a 1930 oil on beaverwood painting by the American Regionalist artist Grant Wood.Depicting a Midwestern farmer and his daughter standing in front of their Carpenter Gothic style home, American Gothic is one of the most famous American paintings of the 20th century and is frequently referenced in popular culture.
Adventures of the Big Boy (initially The Adventures of Big Boy) was a promotional comic book given free to children visiting the restaurants. Intended to "give the kids something to do while they waited for their food", [ 58 ] the book involves the escapades of Big Boy, his girlfriend Dolly and dog Nugget.
His 1930 showroom design for a British dressmaking firm had a silver-grey background and black mirrored-glass wall panels. [37] [40] Black and white was also a very popular color scheme during the 1920s and 1930s. Black and white checkerboard tiles, floors and wallpapers were very trendy at the time. [41]
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (Margaret Rose; 21 August 1930 – 9 February 2002) was the younger daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.
Borges and his friend and collaborator, Adolfo Bioy Casares, are developing their next book in a country house near Buenos Aires, in 1940.In an observation, Bioy quotes that "mirrors and copulation are abominable because they increase the number of men" from a heresiarch of a land named Uqbar.