Here is a picture of a shop window that I see almost every day. I've recently been appreciating its beauty, or at least its charm.
Looking at it now, I'm wondering why exactly I find it so charming. Perhaps because it's midway between "fancy" and utilitarian. The owners have obviously gone to some effort in putting it together; it's a tableau. And yet it's fairly simple. I'm guessing nothing in the shop window is hugely expensive. It's a very ordinary shop. (A newsagent's rather than a toyshop.)
There's something very poignant about toys. I swear that reading Coventry Patmore's poem "The Toys" makes me a better person, for all of thirty seconds or so. I can't read it without sobbing.
Also the Mona Lisa at eye-level is a nice touch.
Many years ago, I had a blog devoted to pictures of Dublin shops. I once asked if I could include a link to it in a library newsletter but was told I couldn't, as it might be seen as "self-promotion"! Self-promoting? Moi?
It's certainly charming. It reminds me of the Post Office in the village when I was a kid - they had on display a Red Knight in detachable armour, with a horse, that I really coveted.
ReplyDelete(I can now look up that it was the Red Knight of Vienna, in the Aurora series.)
But they never changed the display in about a decade, until eventually the poor knight became faded, dust covered and unwanted...
bruce g charlton
Well, that story is charming and sad at the same time. He would have been better off with you!
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