The Daydream of a Monk
Above an Empire sofa in our master bedroom hangs a huge 19th century etching. We salvaged it from an attic before a family house was sold. It’s hard to tell if the work was...
Faeries of the Forest
Photography by Joy Marshall
Models: Tatiana Pimentel and Courtney Fox-Johns
Wings: Creatures Who Craft
Jewelry: Parrish Relics
For last spring’s Pre-Raphaelite issue, photographer Joy Marshall, model and artist Tatiana Pimentel, and jeweler Jen Parrish-Hill of Parrish Relics gathered...
Raiment for a Faerie Queen
PHOTOGRAPHY BY ELIZABETH ELDER
What better way to end an homage to faerie queens than with a magical, glittering queen riding on a unicorn? In fact, when said queen (model Courtney Allegra) and her enchanted...
Featured Artist: Adam Oehlers
British artist Adam Oehlers has been drawing for as long as he can remember and has always been attracted to themes rooted in nature and magic. “It’s a soft kind of magic I like...
A Book of Things Received
Photography by Michaela Durisova
Model: Kristína Szegenyová
Accessories: Magaela Accessories
The old woman handed her young apprentice a book of soft leather with tattered pages scented of lavender and then motioned for her to follow into the...
How To Be A Modern Romantic
Photography by KATERINA PLOTNIKOVA Model NORMILA
Who doesn’t want to be romantic? But I don’t mean romantic with a small r. I mean capital R Romantic, like the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who was discovered...
Dorthy Wordsworth – Genus Loci
I like to imagine her in the early 1800s, lacing up sturdy leather boots and putting on a hat—not the frilly house bonnet of her late-in-life portrait but a proper hat to shed rain...
Twelve Things You Might Find Inside A Modern Romantic’s Knapsack
Illustration by Guinevere von Sneeden
• First, the knapsack itself will be sturdy and large, made of worn leather or canvas. Perhaps it is a tapestry bag with a design of trees and leaves on...
Where the Wild Things Are
Kelly Louise Judd is just as mysterious as her fantastical work and, one might reasonably suspect, similarly eccentric. She’s hard to track down, like one of the many felines—leaping or sleeping, sitting or slinking—that...