This was the weekend of Chinese footbaths.

Chinese footbaths? How could footbaths be the solution to an interior design problem? I didn’t even know that Chinese footbaths existed.

That’s why there’s Quatorze. And once we had decided that footbaths would make excellent cache-pots for a table in the window, Quatorze got to work and discovered the right footbaths. They’re celadon. I’ll have more to say about celadon later. I’ve already said most of it, actually, but you don’t want to read about it just now.

Quaere: interior design and logistics — which is the subset of the which? I’m inclined to say that the question of what your place looks like doesn’t come up until you’ve found a way to live, so that organizing your stuff in order to make life convenient (logistics) comes before design. “Stuff,” here, extends far beyond material possessions. It includes such things as “an interest in cooking” and “a fondness for giving dinner parties.”  

The protocol:

• What do you want to do?
• What to you need to have in order to do it?
• Where do you put what you need?
• How do you make it look good?

Of course, you have to be a perfect genius to be able to follow this protocol before the age of forty.

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Back on the job at The Daily Blague. Jean Ruaud’s contributions, I’m sure you’ll agree, can’t be allowed to stop altogether; I must petition him for a regular Letter from Paris. You must urge him to continue as well — you’ll find his address at the bottom of one or two of his entries. It may have been a long week for him, but it was a short and pleasant one for regular readers. We all had a break — everyone except Jean, that is. I’m forever in his debt. Thanks, Jean! 

Drop me a line at rjk@dailyblague.com
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