Absinthe Makes The Heart Grow Fonder

My punning is so shameful I might have been a journalist for The Sun in a past, more evil life. In this one, I started out a working life in an insurance company office and was instantly nicknamed The Green Goddess, being Ms.Green at the time. Not as flattering as you might think, considering it was the term for WWII temporary fire engines, which happen to have been painted a less than fetching shade of green.
We are duly informed that Emerald Green is the decor shade for this year. I can remember moving to LA many moons ago and looking at houses to rent, each having a requisite emerald green carpet which made me quite ill every time. Now it has smartened up, paired with silver and blacks, and makes it to Interestingly Stylish. However, I rather lean towards the decadent deep shades that suggest an absinthe den, so with that in mind I'm going to feature opulent sin bins that you'd loll around in Bohemian wear ready with your sugar cube to taste. Let's go behind the green door and see some envious tones. An Art Nouveau one in Berlin, appropriately enough, with its Green Man emblem.

 

Or this Art Nouveau Parisian apartment at Patrice Bessecouk

It's the mystery of this graphic and the colors of the beetle that inspire me.

Particularly if you are an actress at the turn of the century called Ellen Terry and this dress made from thousands of beetle wings has been custom made for you to star in The Scottish Play.

Mile End house from 1st Option is the place I want to be lolling about drinking absinthe...

And here too - these people know from luxuriously sinful. 

Imagine pouring a glass from this Moser Glass 19th century jug, perfect color combination for...

...Montagu House, here

 Or perhaps using some of my own green Depression Glass:

Definitely here...how rich and jewel-like.

Malachite semi-precious green gracing La Maison Boheme walls and made into a fantastic rug too. Beautiful!

 

One would hope the bathrooms resembled this Turkish number.

Finally, I'm going to round off with three definitely Green Goddesses that could in turn pass for the famed Absinthe Fairy. Certainly after a bottle, you might be seeing them again in your dreams. Tom Ford's Goddess:

 

Absinthe Fairy:

The inimitable Garbo.