This morning’s Boston Globe, front page no less, featured an article about the new trend of “she sheds”. Men have their ‘man caves’, women are now creating their ‘she sheds’. Has it taken almost ninety years, since Virginia Woolf published A Room of Ones Own in 1929, for this idea to take hold? I think not, but now it has good public, or as the current lingo, gone viral.
I’ve had my Angel Room, with all my special book,icons and Italian memorabilia hanging all over the walls, for close to thirty years. When I first moved my soul into the room after my son moved out, I named it Lo Studiolo after 15th-century Italian writing rooms, specifically those in Urbino and Gubbio (now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art), created by intarsia, an elaborate form of marquetry using inlays in wood.
The room still features Italian memorabilia, but it was renamed The Angel Room by my grandchildren when as toddlers they would spend early mornings with me in the room. It was the angels hanging here and there that drew their innocent attention.
I’ve had my Angel Room, with all my special book,icons and Italian memorabilia hanging all over the walls, for close to thirty years. When I first moved my soul into the room after my son moved out, I named it Lo Studiolo after 15th-century Italian writing rooms, specifically those in Urbino and Gubbio (now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art), created by intarsia, an elaborate form of marquetry using inlays in wood.
The room still features Italian memorabilia, but it was renamed The Angel Room by my grandchildren when as toddlers they would spend early mornings with me in the room. It was the angels hanging here and there that drew their innocent attention.