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La Partie Carrée (1870). Collection of the National Gallery of Canada.
As spring turns to summer, one can’t help but long for a good old-fashioned picnic. And by old-fashioned, we mean
really old-fashioned the picnic has been a perennial favorite for over 500 years.
While dining outdoors has (of course) been happening forever, the outdoor repast as an escape into nature dates back to the medieval era. Following hunting expeditions, the wealthy would enjoy outdoor feasts accompanied by heavy furniture, crystal glasses, and all manner of accouterment carried by servants.
The meaning of the word “picnic,” too, has shifted over time. It first surfaced in 18th-century France, and originally meant something more akin to a potluck. In the 19th century, the word gained the outdoor connotations we’re familiar with today.
Alderbrook, a 19th-Century Gothic Brick Mansion in the Bronx, Lists for $6.995 Million
The 1858 home in the New York City borough has been carefully restored and is the only early villa still intact as a single-family residence in the Park Riverdale neighborhood By Virginia K. Smith |
Originally Published On May 13, 2021 | Mansion Global
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The 1858 home has come on the market for just the fourth time since the mid-19th century.
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The 1858 home has come on the market for just the fourth time since the mid-19th century.
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Alderbrook, rare historic mansion in the affluent Riverdale section of the Bronx has come on the market for just the fourth time since the mid-19th century, at an asking price of $6.995 million.
Kyle Abraham’s When We Fell review – study of stillness and isolation in black and white Lyndsey Winship
Things have moved up a notch when it comes to filming dance. New York City Ballet has just announced Sophia Coppola will be directing its next dance film, but this latest, When We Fell, already moves the medium into a new sphere.
The cinematographer is Ryan Marie Helfant, who usually works with Beyoncé and Solange, and here co-directed with choreographer Kyle Abraham. There’s a distinct style and cool distance in Helfant’s aesthetic, filmed in black and white – in fact it’s more like a soft greyscale – and there’s something out of time and otherworldly about the result.