Art Nouveau-arama!

I am in love with the Art Nouveau aesthetic, if not the prices.  Here are some gorgeous finds that are either of the period or inspired by it.

Flashback!

Oh man, soooo much time wasted with one of these back in the day...

Frazetta lives on in velvet!

Behold!  Vintage fantasy badassery lovely painted on the classiest of surfaces, velvet!

One of a kind you say?

One of my biggest pet peeves with online sellers is the overuse of "unique" and "one of a kind."  Now if it's something that you made with your own two hands, then for good or for ill, it's likely one of a kind.  If it is something mass produced, I don't care how old it is, there's another one somewhere. 
This genius has been trying to sell this phone since at least last fall:

One of a kind, is it?  Well let's see what a quick search of ebay using "pink rotary phone" yields...

 And here's one from the selection on etsy:

Oh and Ruby Lane...

So yeah, I think I've proven my point craigslist seller.  What's my point, you may ask?  You're an idiot, that's my point. 

Oh god it's that thing they put in Chekov's ear!

Seriously, when I was a kid that part of Wrath of Khan where they put those beetle-worm things into the ears of Chekov & the captain of the USS Reliant it FREAKED. ME. OUT.  Now I can apparently wear the same creepy little abomination on my finger.
*shiver*

Punk's not dead!

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