A Touch of Copper
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- Published on 25 June 2012
Back from a most wonderful, relaxing and inspiring holiday in Italy. I'll be referring to it in a few posts but promise not to bore you to death with acres of holiday snaps.
The wifi we were hoping for turned out to be a dongle, which was not much use with my ipad, so I rather feel like I'm starting from scratch on learning how to post. Never mind, I'm sure it will soon become second nature.
Never having been to Rome, we decided to take advantage of landing at Rome airport to at least get a glimpse of some of the most famous sites. When I should have been marvelling at the wonders of the Coloseum, I couldn't help noticing how the addition of a simple band of copper to the planters on the pavement nearby really lifted them out of the ordinary. (Isn't there some scathing comment, I think by Henry James, about tourists going to marvelous places and recounting tales of an interesting dog they saw there? - Springs to mind, not sure why...)
Anyway, I'm afraid I didn't take a photo of the planters, or of the fabulous copper doorway I passed later that day, but it did get me thinking about copper and how beautiful it is. Fortunately, by the time I got to Pompeii and Sorrento I had my wits about me and took some snaps of a couple of lovely examples of copper. The images are below, as is the one and only image I will inflict on you of me on my holidays. (The eagle-eyed among you may spot the lovely copper-coloured corsage detail on my handbag:





http://www.habitat.co.uk/table-lights/lighting/fcp-category/list?resetFilters=true#productsPerPage=56



http://www.awhiteroom.com/innermost/innermost-small-fantome-ghost-clock.asp

http://www.craftanddesign.com/studios/laurabarker

http://www.tomdixon.net/products/uk/copper-shade
There is more to say on copper but I'll have to leave it there for today. Triciax