Earlier this week I was lamenting the tribulations of aging, perhaps impacted by the grey New York winter weather. But yesterday I had a full-on injection of spring fever. I walked into the Hanky Panky showroom and found myself in an English garden. Melancholy turned to nostalgia as I sculled back to college days when I spent a summer in Oxford, England soaking up the poetic prose of D.H. Lawrence. No literary visual is as potent to me than the picnic scene in Lawrence’s novel, Women in Love, in which Gerald teaches Ursula how to eat a fig. Set in a pasture fluent with floral plenitude, it is a metaphor for feminine sensuality. Leave it to Hanky Panky spring 2016 print palette to bring color into our lives.
“If You Have A Garden And A Library, You Have Everything You Need”
~Marcus Tullius Cicero
