Jadis

When you enter Jadis, you see "a metallic replica of the robot from Fritz Lang's 1927 sci-fi movie Metropolis flanked by model boats with big motorized flapping wings."

Boing Boing 2010

Boing Boing reader Genise Schnitman says, "Parke Meek, the self-taught steampunk technical wizard who worked in the Eames office and was the curmudgeonly doyen of Jadis, the retrofuturist wunderkammer on Main Street in Santa Monica, passed away at 86."

Boing Boing 2010

Weekend America produced this radio feature on Meek's Jadis antique store and prop shop in Santa Monica.

Boing Boing 2010

Flickr user Mark Garland has a set of photos shot inside Jadis.

Boing Boing 2010

Anyone who's going to make more of it than that, needs to explain what exactly Jadis was trying to accomplish.

Your Right Hand Thief 2008

For some reason I have always pictured Jadis as a blonde, but in this depiction her dark hair sets off the crown really effectively and contrasts with the robe and the wintry snow very well.

MX42 / Illustration Friday: Frozen 2009

One of the memorable scenes from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe comes when Jadis, the evil white queen, tempts Edmund into betraying the others with a delicious treat known as turkish delight.

Turkish Delight. Jeff 2008

In trying to get home they pick up an evil witch named Jadis, and see Aslan create the world of Narnia.

Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician's Nephew. Jeff 2008

Jadis is cool - not only does she have a personality, home world, and magic, she has a name other than just White Witch.

Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician's Nephew. Jeff 2008

Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen: A Tale in Seven Stories" gives us not only a possible inspiration for Jadis, Lewis' villainous White Witch in "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," but also for elements found in other modern fantasies--most specifically, I'm thinking of Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy.

Sound familiar? Shelfari 2008