Grey gardens

The history of hoarding, from Grey Gardens to the DSM-V.

When I saw these images in the New York Times my mind immediately drew parallels to Dickens’s Great Expectations– from the once-grand mansion in decay to the fascinating & eccentric…

A staunch character indeed. Grey Gardens, one of my favorite films. (pinned from http://www.huffingtonpost.com)

Candy colored porcelain doorknobs from France. Oh. My. These beauties were spotted on an Instagram post by a woman who mostly sells amazing antique garden furniture and ornaments. She is also from Massachusetts, and I am constantly amazed at her incredible inventory. I ooh and ahhh over the furniture, but when she posted these special hand painted and gilded knobs, I knew I just had to have them! Laurie of Plain and Elegant Antiques is someone to follow if you, like me, are into garden…

Little Edie: “There are some nice people in the world, you know, I just don’t happen to be related to any of them.” Big Edie: “The cat’s going to the bathroom right in back …

Once upon a time, there was a beautiful mansion built in the Hamptons called Grey Gardens. Grey Gardens got its name from the cement garden walls, the color of the dunes and the sea mist. Grey Gardens would become notorious for its eccentric mother and daughter inhabitants, Big Edie and Little Edie Beale, after a series of twists and turns, brought them cult status and notoriety. A reverse story of riches to rags with celebrity relatives always makes for a great tale. A14 room shingle style…

Again not keeping up, I just saw the 1975 documentary "Grey Gardens," made by Albert and David Maysles about Edith Bouvier Beale and her dau...

Meet Big and Little Edie Beale: mother and daughter, high-society dropouts, and reclusive cousins of Jackie Onassis. The two manage to thrive together amid the decay and disorder of their East Hampton, New York, mansion, making for an eerily ramshackle echo of the American Camelot. An impossibly intimate portrait, this 1976 documentary by Albert and David Maysles, codirected by Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer, quickly became a cult classic and established Little Edie as a fashion icon and…