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The Pomander Walk complex, named for a popular British stage comedy of the day, is not technically a mews.

A one-bedroom on a high floor in the 0003 building had a view of the charming block known as Pomander Walk.

This set includes a diffuser with a 50-milliliter reservoir and six five-milliliter essential oils: lavender, peppermint, frasier fir, pomander, eucalyptus, and sweet orange.

Glass-clad towers that climb ever higher give quiet spaces like Pomander Walk added poignancy: The alleyways offer pockets of respite that are hard to come by.

Then Ms. Vandenberg saw the listing for a Pomander Walk apartment: a small, roughly 750-square-foot unit that retained its old-world charm and compact kitchen.

An anomaly for the neighborhood, Pomander Walk is one of a few precious mews and mews look-alikes still in existence in New York, despite the encroaching modernity all around.

"It was the only example of commercial neo-Tudor architecture left in the whole city," he said, adding that some residential examples still exist, including Pomander Walk on the Upper West Side.

But historic designations protect most of the regal buildings along Riverside Drive, West End Avenue and Central Park West, along with some other pockets — including Pomander Walk, a quaint Tudor-style complex in the block west of Broadway between 94th and 95th Streets.

Ms. Hindman has worn many of the pieces, just to see if they are wearable: a finely engraved silver pomander in the form of a book, and a pair of 17th-century carved jet necklaces worn by a Spanish abbess (listed for sale at $125,000).

Every separate bit, every crystal shard, seems to be here—her nature unknowable, dense, dispersed, her atomization a miracle, the earth without her a miracle as if I had arrived on my own with nothing to owe, nothing to grieve, nothing to fear, it would happen with me as it would, not one molecule lost or sent to the Principal or held in a dried-orange-pomander strongbox stuck with the iron-matron maces of the cloves.

Medieval pomander paste formulas usually contained ambergris. From this came "pomme ambre" (amber apple) and from there the word pomander was developed. Other names for the pomander are Ambraapfel, Bisamapfel, Bisamknopf, Bisambüchse, balsam apple, Desmerknopf, musk ball Desmerapfel, Oldanokapsel, Pisambüchse, and smelling apple.

In 2008 Landmark West! bestowed their Building Rehabilitation Award on Pomander Walk. Past residents of Pomander walk include Nancy Carroll, Ward Morehouse, Herbert Stothart, Paulette Goddard and Rosalind Russell.

Carlos Goez (December 13, 1939 – December 25, 1990) founded the original Pomander Book Shop, (along with his life partner Timothy Mawson), "a rather unprepossessing, Dickensian storefront"Dennis, Everette E., Pease, Edward C. & LeMay, Craig L. (1997) Publishing Books. Transaction Books, Edison, New Jersey The "Pomander," as it was known, was located at 252 West 95th Street, on Manhattan's Upper West Side, next to the Thalia, one of New York's first repertory movie theatres. Hidden down the same street was the historic architectural gem Pomander Walk where Goez resided for many years. A native of the nation of Colombia and educated at Columbia University, Goez opened the Pomander Book Shop in 1975.

Venetian woman with a pomander A pomander, from French pomme d'ambre, i.e., apple of amber, is a ball made for perfumes, such as ambergris (hence the name), musk, or civet. The pomander was worn or carried in a vase, also known by the same name, as a protection against infection in times of pestilence or merely as a useful article to modify bad smells. The globular cases which contained the pomanders were hung from a neck-chain or belt, or attached to the girdle, and were usually perforated in a variety of openwork techniques, and made of gold or silver.

An orange studded with cloves. One modern style of pomander is made by studding an orange or other fruit with whole dried cloves and letting it cure dry, after which it may last many, many years. This modern pomander serves the functions of perfuming and freshening the air and also of keeping drawers of clothing and linens fresh, pleasant- smelling, and moth-free.

Peter Henlein most likely procured this Oriental pomander in the monastery. The plague had descended on Nuremberg in 1505 and the pomander as status symbol had returned to the awareness of many of his high- ranking contemporaries. In an age of new perspectives, it must have been very tempting to place the essence or spirit of time in the container of a fragrance dispenser.

Pomander Watch 1530 created by Peter Henlein. It once belonged to Philip Melanchthon and is now in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore Henlein did not create the typical Nuremberg eggs - he crafted mainly portable pomander watches. Although they are associated with Henlein, and are a development of the watch-making tradition of Henlein's time, they thus become popular only several decades after his death.Jürgen Abeler: In Sachen Peter Henlein, Wuppertaler Uhrenmuseum, 1980. German. .

1, 3.Los Angeles Times, 31 March 1922, p. I-13.New York Times, 31 March 1922, p. 13. It was revealed that their argument originated with "a light romantic" love scene between Criley and Wilson’s wife in the 1921 production of Pomander Walk at Carmel’s Forest Theatre.

Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 5, > Chemistry and Chemical Technology; Part 2, Spagyrical Discovery and > Invention: Magisteries of Gold and Immortality. Cambridge University Press. > p. 133. Another popular design was the small "scenting globe" (xiangqiu 香球), a device similar to a pomander, but used for burning incense.

The 1505 pomander watch - Research material. Retrieved December 7, 2018.Ulrich Schmidt: Das ehemalige Franziskanerkloster in Nürnberg, Verlag der Nürnberger Volkszeitung, Nürnberg 1913. German. Especially accumulated knowledge on astronomy, mathematics and clockmaking, from the Orient, safeguarded knowledge passed through history entered Europe during the medieval period and early Renaissance.

Pomanders were first mentioned in literature in the mid-thirteenth century. They were used in the late Middle Ages through the 17th century.Groom, p. 274 Also a version of the pomander with oranges, cloves, oils, and a golden ribbon may be used as a recovery charm in witchcraft.

In 1898 he was made a fellow of the Royal Academy of Music. One of his daughters, Dorothy, became an actress, including a performance in New York in Parker's Pomander Walk.Her Broadway career is given at Parker wrote an autobiography Several of my Lives (Chapman & Hall 1928). He became a British subject in 1914.

Each building originally had one apartment on each floor. In recent years, some buildings have been reconfigured to serve as single-family homes. Pomander Walk is different in style and out of scale with the tall buildings that surround it. Author and former resident Darryl Pinckney called it "an insertion of incredible whimsy" into the Upper West Side.

The spice is used in a type of cigarette called kretek in Indonesia. Clove cigarettes have been smoked throughout Europe, Asia, and the United States. Since 2009, clove cigarettes have been classified as cigars in the US. Because of the bioactive chemicals of clove, the spice may be used as an ant repellent. Cloves can be used to make a fragrant pomander when combined with an orange.

He was the first craftsman to build clockworks into "Bisamköpfe" so called pomanders, small containers fashioned from precious metals for fragrances or disinfectants. According to further records, in 1524 Henlein sold a musk-ball (pomander) watch. In 1529, Henlein traveled to Strasbourg on behalf of the Nuremberg council, for a sky globe. Six years later, he crafted a watch for the council of Nuremberg.

Smaller versions were made to be attached by a chain to a finger ring and held in the hand. Even smaller versions served as cape buttons or rosary beads. A pomander can be a bag containing fragrant herbs and might be viewed as an early form of aromatherapy. Pomanders can be considered related to censers, in which aromatics are burned or roasted rather than naturally evaporated.

The Play. New York Times; by Alexander Woollcott; December 22, 1920; pg. 19; Hay played the supporting role ‘Miss Barbara Sternroyd’ in Marjolaine, a musical comedy by Catherine Chisholm Cushing that opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on January 24, 1922. Marjolaine, based on the comedy Pomander Walk by Louis N. Parker, soon came under fire from Dr. John Roach Straton for contributing to the wrecking of female virtue in America.

In the late 16th century the pouncet box appeared which, whilst retaining the traditional features of the pomander, was designed to hold liquid perfumes, blended with powder and absorbed on a sponge or piece of cotton. It was favoured by the upper classes who appreciated the delicacy of the liquid perfumes. Its name stemmed from the fact that the box was "pounced" or pierced to release the scent.

According to city historian Christopher Gray, when Healy was unable to get financing for a hotel, he built the houses that stand on the site today, apparently to provide a temporary cash-flow while he waited to raze them and build the hotel. It was designed by the New York architecture firm King and Campbell. Healy died in 1927, however, so Pomander Walk remained. By the 1970s, the complex was rundown and at risk of being demolished.

In November of 1509, he became a master in the city's locksmith guild. He became known as a maker of small portable ornamental spring-powered brass clocks, very rare and expensive, which were fashionable among the nobility of the time, sometimes worn as pendants or attached to clothing - known as pomander watches.Milham, 1945, p.135 Peter Henlein is mentioned in the city's records as the supplier of small spring-driven clocks, which were given as gifts to important people.

The novel Vanity Fair (1847/8) by William Makepeace Thackeray opens at Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Young Ladies in Chiswick Mall. Louis N. Parker's play Pomander Walk (1915) has the imagined setting of "a retired crescent of five very small, old-fashioned houses near Chiswick, on the river-bank. ... They are exactly alike: miniature copies of Queen Anne mansions". Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End tetralogy (1924/28) contains many scenes set in Chiswick, where the Wannop family resides.

Mainly via the trade routes and the network of the Chaliphates primarily from Muslim Spain (al-Andaluz) and its centres of knowledge (i.e. Toledo), especially with the Translation Movement from Arabic and Greek into Latin and secondary via the Italian and Venetian merchants influencing the Italian Renaissance and its resonating impact.Albert Hourani: Der Islam im europäischen Denken: Essays, Fischer Verlag, December 2017. German, Watch 1505 - the world's first watchIn 1505, he invented the world's first watch, the Watch 1505, a fire-gilded pomander.

In his lifetime, Henlein crafted many watches and instruments. A paper from 1524 records that Heinlein was paid 15 florins (one florin is approximately between 140 and 1000 modern US dollars) for a gilt pomander watch. His customers included the high society of the 16th century, f. e. Martin Luther, Kaspar von Schöneich (chancellor of Mecklenburg), Frederick III, Elector of Saxony, Kardinal Albrecht from Brandenburg, Philip Melanchthon, Mercurino di Gattinara as well as gifts which were given by the Nuremberg Council.

Russell Janney (April 14, 1884 – July 14, 1963) was a theatrical producer and author. He is best known for his 1946 best-selling book and first novel, The Miracle of the Bells, which was made into a film of the same name in 1948. He also produced and co-authored the 1925 musical The Vagabond King, working with Brian Hooker and composer Rudolf Friml. Janney also produced other plays including Marjolaine (1922) (based on Pomander Walk by Louis N. Parker),Mantle, Burns.

Parker was the author of many cantatas, such as Silvia and the Twenty-third Psalm, as well as many other musical compositions. Overall he wrote, alone or in collaboration or in translation, over 100 plays, including Change Alley, The Man in the Street, The Paper Chase, Pomander Walk, Rosemary, and adaptations including David Copperfield and The Monkey's Paw. His translations include Magda (Hermann Sudermann's play Heimat), The Duel by Henri Lavedan, L'Aiglon, Cyrano de Bergerac. His plays were popular in London and New York.

The lady wears a pedimental head-dress and lappets, with gown, ornamented girdle with pomander hanging therefrom. Over all she wears a robe of estate showing the arms of Courtenay: Or, three torteaux a label of three points azure. Behind her kneels her only son by her second husband George Rogers, and behind him her two daughters Elizabeth and Katherine. The following inscription, partly in Latin, appears below (with abbreviations extended): ::Conditor et Rede(m)ptor corporis et anime sit mihi medicus et custos utriusque.

Pomander Walk is a cooperative apartment complex in Manhattan, New York City, located on the Upper West Side between Broadway and West End Avenue. The complex consists of 27 buildings. Four buildings face West 94th Street, and another seven face West 95th Street, including one with a return facade on West End Avenue. The "Walk" itself, consisting of two rows of eight buildings facing each other across a narrow courtyard, runs through the middle of the block between 94th and 95th, with a locked gate at each end.

Her hair is not covered with the traditional white coif often seen in continental Europe, and particularly in the Seventeen Provinces at the time, which even rich merchant women would wear (such as in the Portrait of a Woman, of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, or also the Portrait of an Unknown Lady, holding a pomander on a Gold Chain of 1560 (see the gallery of portraits in the article about Pieter Pourbus). But she wears instead the fashionable French hood, particularly preferred by noble women, and in her case ornamented with pearls.

In November 1856 Wyndham was Rolando in Tobin's The Honey Moon; in May 1857 he revived Macbeth, with Mrs. Wyndham as Lady Macbeth and Irving as Banquo; in December of that year they were successful with the pantomime Little Bo Peep, with Irving as "Scruncher, captain of the Wolves". A final performance at the Royal, doomed to destruction in order to make way for a post-office, took place on 25 May 1859, when Wyndham played Sir Charles Pomander in Masks and Faces; Mrs. Wyndham played Peg, and Irving played Soaper.

Petworth Gardens were the first garden apartments built in Washington and an early example in the United States. The concept was inspired by the Garden city movement, and the Londonese type apartments made famous in a play about Pomander Walk, row-houses on a pedestrian street in London and a similar place which was being developed in New York. The four brick buildings were developed in 1921 by Allan E. Walker based on the designs of Robert F. Beresford. They are simple in design and feature the eclectic revivalism of the day.

Sometimes they contained several partitions, in each of which was placed a different perfume. The term "pomander" can refer to the scented material itself or to the container that contains such material.POMANDER MEMENTO MORICorine Schleif and Volker Schier, Katerina's Windows: Donation and Devotion, Art and Music, as Heard and Seen Through the Writings of a Birgittine Nun, University Park: Penn State Press, 2009, pp. 237, 242-244 The container could be made of gold or silver and eventually evolved to be shaped like nuts, skulls, hearts, books and ships.

In 1903 she understudied Nina Boucicault in the title role of J. M. Barrie's Little Mary, and, according to the ODNB, "subsequently made the part her own", playing it in many revivals at Wyndham's Theatre, and in 1905–06 touring it, with other leading roles, around Australia. In 1907 she toured in The School for Scandal and The Importance of being Earnest. In she made her first appearance in the US, playing Barbara Pennymint in Pomander Walk, by Louis N. Parker, at Wallack's Theatre, New York, and in the following two years toured the role around the country.

Matthew Craddock's will notes the jewels and silver that Lady Catherine owned before they were married. These included a girdle with a pomander, a heart of gold, a fleur-de-lis of diamonds, and a gold cross with nine diamonds. He bequeathed her an income from the lands of Dinas Powys and Llanedeyrn near Cardiff.John Montgomery Traherne, Historical Notices of Matthew Craddock of Swansea (London, William Rees; Longman and Co.; Cardiff, W. Bird; and Swansea, J. Williams, 1840), pp. 6, 8, 16-17 Her fourth and last husband was Christopher Ashton of Fyfield also then in Berkshire.

A pomander is worn by Rosemary Woodhouse, in Roman Polanski's 1968 film, Rosemary's Baby. It figures as a central part of the plot development. The pouncet box is mentioned in Shakespeare's Henry IV Part I when Hotspur is accused of withholding Scottish nobles captured in a skirmish and in self- defence pleads, in describing the King's messenger: > He was perfumèd like a milliner, And ’twixt his finger and his thumb he held > A pouncet box, which ever and anon He gave his nose and took't away again, > Who therewith angry, when it next came there, Took it in snuff; and still he > smiled and talked.

Aquila Magazine, January 2017 (Dinosaurs) Very occasionally, the page featured a biography of a famous mathematician. In later issues, it moved to the back of the magazine, and became half a page, and in September 2017, it was replaced by an activity to make a pomander, and finally disappeared altogether to make more room for Aquila News.Aquila Magazine, October 2017 (Forest Adventure) It's The Law :In older issues, "It's The Law" occasionally replaced Aquila peers into the past..., and it explained the laws that may affect Aquila readers, and how laws are passed. On Track :An occasional feature which outlines the basic principles of many different sports from football to the less well known, or even invented games.

As well as a small piece of card stuck onto a piece of blue wool which dangles making the shape of a handle below. A coloured photo of past photo of Emin holding a kitten standing next to her grandmother May Dodge sitting at a table in a Kitchen. A black and white photo of both Emin as a little girl and May Dodge her grandmother standing in a garden in the 1960s. A handmade scented pomander that resembles a doll that Emin’s grandmother made. The relic made up of sections of soft knitted white cotton fabrics and lace gathered together over its scented stuffing and topped with a plastic doll’s head.

Michel de Nostredame had a similar method and formula using similar ingredients, but a rather different procedure. "Rose tablets" were made by soaking a pound of roses without the flower heads in deer musk water overnight. The water was then thoroughly squeezed out and the roses ground with seven ounces of benzoin, a quarter of ambergris and another of civet musk. This mixture was made into tablets, which were each sandwiched between rose petals and dried in a cool, dark areaBoeser (chapter 11) To form the final pomander, two ounces of the purest labdanum, an ounce each of Styrax calamites and benzoin resin, half an ounce of the rose tablets, one ounce of violet powder, and half a dram each ambergris and musk were ground into a powder and kneaded with the rose-musk water from the production of the rose tablets.

The first and most important historical tribute of Peter Henlein and his invention of a portable watch was made in 1511 by an influential figure of the time. Johannes Cochläus, humanist and contemporary of Peter Henlein, he wrote in the appendix of the description of the world “Cosmographia Pomponius Mela – De Norimberga Germania Centro”, which is dedicated to the humanist of the Renaissance Willibald Pirckheimer, a eulogy to the City of Nuremberg, including a praise for Peter Henlein and his watches: > “Every day they (the craftsmen of Nuremberg) invent finer things. For > example, Peter Hele (Henlein), still a young man, fashions works that even > the most learned mathematicians admire: for from only a little bit of iron > he makes clocks with many wheels, which, no matter how one might turn them, > show and chime the hours for forty hours without any weight, even when > carried hat the breast or in a handbag (purse).” Johann Neudörfers wrote in 1547 that Henlein invented the portable pomander watches (die bisam Köpf zu machen erfunden).