Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Holiday Season with Jacquar

HOLIDAY SEASON

“LIVE IN THE SUNSHINE, swim the sea, 
drink the wild air…” 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

PREPARING for the night, 
it's gonna get wild!! 
Let's get this party started!"

 Jacquar China from Lynn Chase Collection. 
Images from various sources.

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Monday, December 10, 2012

SeXy Chaise

A must have chaise from Donghia
I named it as "You & Me" chaise 
to generate "high voltaqe of electricity" 
- spacious for one and yet seXy for two!

"HAVE I TOLD YOU LATELY THAT I LOVE YOU?"
- Rod Stewart 

Great lucite bench with a cushion 
a winner as a bathroom vanity chair 
or dressing room. 

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Thursday, December 6, 2012

Beautiful Living - Bathroom

“COLOR 
does not add a pleasant quality to design – 
it reinforces it.” 
— Pierre Bonnard

Sheer fabrics from Donghia

"A NICE HOT BATH will fix just about anything..."

Beautiful Living
* Fill a tub with warm water - bath oil and salt
* Light a couple of your favorite perfumed candles
* play your favorite soothing music
* a glass of your favorite wine 
* sprinkle some floral petals into the bath

... cleanse away all the unwanted negative energy 
and be a whole new person!


* Master Bedroom bathroom @ Bedford, NY.
 

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Wednesday, December 5, 2012

December @ Central Park, NYC

"WHAT I LIKE ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHS 
is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, 
impossible to reproduce." 
― Karl Lagerfeld

“I AM SEEKING. I AM STRIVING. 
I AM IN IT WITH ALL MY HEART.” 
~Vincent van Gogh


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Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Equestrian

"LIFE HAS BEEN YOUR ART. 
You have set yourself to music. 
Your days are your sonnets." 
- Oscar Wilde 
-Riding boots from Frye Dorado
-Vase and mug from 
Ralph Lauren 
-Nord Icelandic Horses in Gallop Cushion
-Painting a Horse Using Ink by Rebecca Yue 
-Roberto Dutesco's photo
By Nord Icelandic Horse CushionBY NORD Galloping Icelandic Horses Cushion
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Monday, December 3, 2012

Eat Meets West

Blue & Gold  - New & Old

Chinese Imperial summer gauze robe - 
beautifully embroidered @ seen NYC auction gallery

Fine Bone China - Benday Cobalt Expresso set £72.00 @ La Maison Couture.

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Monday, November 26, 2012

Latin American Art

Latin American Art 
@ NYC auction house recently.

Both painting and sculpture by
Fernando Botero

" A SOUL should always stand ajar, 
ready to welcome the ecstatic experience." 
- Emily Dickinson  
La Baigneuse by Fernando Botero (Colombian b. 1932) 
bronze with dark brown patina 12" x 20" x 9".

“MAN IS ONLY TRULY GREAT when he acts from the passions.” 
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) 
Painting: Red Carpet by Claudio Bravo 
Chilean 1936 -2011. 
Oil on canvas. 51 ½" x 64"

Bronze with dark brown patina and granite base
Figura Danzante by Raul Valdivieso 
Chilean 1931- 1993 27 ½" x 17½" x 6"


"ANYTHING WORTH doing is worth doing slowly." 
- Mae West
Marie of Romania and Mae West 
by Miguel Covarrubias (Mexican 1904-1957) 
- gouache on paper 19 5/8" x 17¼

Cornelis Zitman (Dutch/Venezuelan b. 1926)

El campeón (also known as Triunfador)
bronze with dark brown patina, with metal and ribbon elements
26 x 22½ x 11 in.

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Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Beauty From The Past

Let's embrace the beauty and graciousness from the past
and bring them into today's living.

An Italian silver-mounted shell centerpiece. 
Mark of Gianmaria Buccelati, 
20th Century. 24" long. 

 A Charles X Ormolu Twelve-Light Chandelier 
ca 1825




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Monday, November 19, 2012

Fall Light & Palette

"TO LOVE BEAUTY IS TO SEE LIGHT." 
- Victor Hugo

Afternoon fall light brings out the
beauty of foliage ...

May these colors inspire YOU!
“WHAT YOU ARE IS WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN. 
What you’ll be is what you do now.” 
- Buddha





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Thursday, November 15, 2012

French Perfumed Candle from CHRISTOPHER ONG

Holiday Season
Limited quantity of French perfumed candles 
available now online only.

Come celebrate Beautiful Living - 
where ideas and inspiration are found in the world around us; 
and where magic is found in the little moments of our lives.


Thank you for viewing my online store.
Please place your order by sending 
your contact information and what products 
you would like to order to:

chrisong@christopherong.com | Paypal preferred.
Shipping : Via US Postal Priority Mail
Payment :  via Paypal/ Credit card
Retail: $60.00 each
Complimentary prices:  $38.00 each
Estimated Burning hours: 60

Shipping Charges within USA 
or use your carrier account.

1 - 2 candle(s) $12.00
2 - 4 candle(s) $16.00

International Freight
TBD

10% proceeds go to 
Sandy Relief
BEATUTIFUL LIVING
C H R I S T O P H E R  O N G
212 - 831 -2798
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012

A Charles X Ormolu Chandelier

“I HAVE THE SIMPLEST TASTES. 
I am always satisfied with the best.” 
- Oscar Wilde

I  was drawn to this chandelier 
at an art auction house
in NYC. The craftsmanship is superb.

A Charles X Ormolu Twelve-Light Chandelier ca 1825
With an anthemion-cast corona and chains and leat-cast and reeded arms with a pin-cone pendant finial. 

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Monday, November 12, 2012

Foggy Morning in Manhattan

"Sometimes we need the fog to remind ourselves 
that all of life is not black and white." 
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

 “MUSIC IN THE SOUL CAN BE HEARD BY THE UNIVERSE." 
- Lao Tzu



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