{living in a Girl with a Pearl Earring}

I’ve long held a burning candle in my heart for Girl with a Pearl Earring. At this point, I’m not even sure if it’s a wonderful movie or if my obsession comes from the fact it’s just painfully beautiful. It’s one of those movies that every frame is composed to look like an exquisitely hazy oil painting, which makes sense because it’s a movie about exquisitely hazy oil paintings.

Based on Tracy Chevalier’s novel, it tells the fictionalized tale of Vermeer’s masterpiece A Girl with a Pearl Earring. Vermeer’s studio in Holland in the 17th century makes for a drool inducing set, full to the brim with delft tile, blue and white china, simple stained glass, rough hewn tables, velvet curtains, easels, canvases, pigments and stone floors. Hold on a sec while I pack my bags? Okay, thanks. All ready to go. -amy m. Post liberally pilfered from Design*Sponge.

antique french easel $995, cobalt linen scarf $88, wicker demijohns $98, set of 30 18th cent delft tiles $1100, vintage dutch teacup and saucer $24, hand forged candlestick $20, vintage tin $58, palette knife $8, vintage paintbrush $10, sugar dish $45. diamond and pearl earrings contact dealer, antique bottles $900 for the set, tortoise shell combs, handmade wooden bucket $320, console table $1000, mauviel copper pot $232, antique candlesticks $150/pair, ceramic tureen $350.