“September days have the warmth of summer in their briefer hours, but in their lengthening evenings, a prophetic breath of Autumn.”
– Rowland E. Robinson
“A Man seated reading at a Table in a Lofty Room“, by a Follower of Rembrandt, about 1628-30.
Welcome to Spyder
September 2026
Spyder
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FILM
‘If you truly want to understand the present or yourself, you must begin in the past. You see, history is not simply the study of the past. It is an explanation of the present.’
– Paul Hunman, Holdovers (2023)
LITERATURE
‘And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.’
– Lee, East Of Eden, written by John Steinbeck
INTERIOR DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE
‘Be not inhospitable to strangers, lest they be angels in disguise.’
adaptation of a biblical verse famously inscripted above the entrance of Shakespeare and Co.
FASHION
‘I always felt we were selling dreams, not clothes.’
– Irving Penn
FOOD
‘So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.’
– Franz Kafka
MUSIC
‘Your soul can fly outward stringed to your ribcage like a shimmering kite in the shape of an open hand.’
– Jeff Buckley
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