Valentine Guéridon

For a simple blip to celebrate today, I put our Valentine tulips on the small circular table in our entry hall (it normally holds our keys in a small wooden container). Edit: as observed below, the table's details are best in large.

My underlying motive with this image is actually to introduce the French word guéridon to the blip community. The word has fascinated me since I began to read Georges Simenon's stories of Commissaire Maigret and his encounters with criminals. The Commissaire moved in an earlier world, often encountering people in rooms furnished with guéridons.

Picasso and Braque "depicted" guéridons in a number of works from their cubist period. Here are examples by Picasso and by Braque.