"harmonious compositions"

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of Balance,
Order, Rythm and Harmony
Thomas Merton

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 Detail of a room in the manor house of Belgium interior and fashion designer 
Edouard Vermeulen
(images: maison madame figaro 2005, photographer: René Stoelti)


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Lady Salisbury's Hatfield garden
here

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A 'musical' Trompe l'oeil in one of the rooms
of Akerö in Södermanland, Sweden
with a Rococo "Bonheur du Jour"

 
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Music is Harmony,

Harmony is Perfection,

Perfection is our Dream,

and our Dream is Heaven.

Henri Frederic Amiel

'composition architectonique' in a French garden
Côte Sud - January 1998


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Hatfield garden

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The tole sconce echoing 'harmoniously' the Farrow § Ball wallpaper
by:
 Loi from toneontone blog
here


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Hatfield garden
here


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The porcelain kitchen at Thureholm, Sweden, decorated in the 1740's
with a collection of  precious blue-and-white Chinese porcelain


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 Edouard Vermeulen

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French garden, Côte Sud - January 1998

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“If there is righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in the character
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If there is beauty in the character, there will be harmony in the home.

If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nations
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When there is order in the nations, there will peace in the world.”
― Sathya Sai Baba

I hope that all of you had a happy and harmonious start

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Images 1,2,3,4 with thanks

to "The Swedish Room" 

by Lars and Ursula Sjöberg

Photographs by Ingalill Snitt

All info for visiting Hatfield Gardens

here:

http://www.hatfield-house.co.uk/content.asp?id=7&Visitor-Information