Marketing can also abet mid-century designs from being trapped in a retro-modern paradigm: Per Lütken's glass bowl for Holmegaard from 1955 was originally called the Arne Bowl (after Holmegaard's then-director Arne Boas) but today is sold as the Provence Bowl, a name not only separating it from its time of origin but from even being Danish.
Weary of his drab life with its nowhere job, failed marriage, boring girlfriend, and estranged teenage son, a middle-aged sad sack fakes his death, changes his identity, and hits the road.
Staying just under a mile from Gillingham station, I was up before the dawn chorus and parked at the station car park (£5.20 all day) in time for that 0456.
This is the true Monsieur [Gaston, Duke of Orléans], who ever stands stradling, and when he converses even with the civillest Ladies, faces them in the same posture, ordering and tossing his Pike, with his hands in his Cod-piece.
