Trompe L'oeil

The dazzlingly gorgeous dining room at Villa Malaspina. Don't you love the painting of the dog in the fireplace? This and more splendour to be found in the book, Villas of Tuscany, by Carlo Cresti and photographed by Massimo Listri (who I have written about here)...

Via here

Roost

Discovered the most exquisitely photographed blog during one of my regular blogosphere binges. The food styling is practically celestial - each photograph looks like a 17th century Dutch still-life oil painting. Coco, the author and photographer, has a wonderful sensibility. Makes one want to leap into this delectable world for a loooooong time, and demand to be fed. Not stalking yet, but super close...

See what I mean? Of course, the photographs from a trip to Italy (Ode to Italy) induced pure unadulterated wanderlust...

 All photographs by Coco from Roostblog