February 2012
6 posts
Serge and the Not-So-Secret Source
Working at a magazine where you’re bombarded (willingly, of course) by beautiful images of spaces conceived on unimaginable budgets can be a bummer for your real person apartment decorating plans. An interior designer friend recently pointed out that he’s stumped when peers ask for good, insidery decor sources. We both shop at Ikea, CB2 or the Brooklyn Flea. Hardly secret. The...
January 2012
8 posts
WatchALL BLACK EVERYTHING
In real life I feel like this woman would be incredibly grating, but her glossy, all-black Chelsea apartment, inspired by a Japanese nightclub is so baller you kinda want to be her regardless. Everything you touch is a storied piece of art, and I love the little deviant touches that give it more than a bit of edge.
Prabal Gurung, Pre Fall
I caught on Man Repeller this morning, another glimpse of Prabal Gurung’s Pre Fall 2012 collection. The very same that I posted a video of here a few days ago. The kaleidoscope patterns are gorgeous, and, I learned via Fashionologie, inspired by ” the grittiness of life in India.” I am actually super pumped for dropped waist dresses. If I recall correctly I was a fan of them in...
December 2011
10 posts
Fort Tilden
Growing up right next to the ocean in the Northeast teaches you to love the beach in all seasons. Steering clear on summer weekends and taking advantage in the off season, when the dunes are dusted in snow and the water is not tempting in the least. As a kid we would drive down in the middle of winter and play fetch with my dogs, who willingly plunged into the waves.
I’ve never been a...
Elle Decor France: Chez Laura Gonzalez
This post is pulled directly from moodboard.typepad.com, which I super belatedly just discovered, who in turn ripped it from the pages of Elle Decor France. But it’s obviously made the rounds for good reason. This place, belonging to architect Laura Gonzalez, is such a clever mix of layers: periods, styles, textures.
The mid-century danish couch with the ornate wallpaper and Native...
November 2011
13 posts
On Ice
The one piece missing from the bar cart: a pretty ice bucket. Maybe something to add another texture to the glass on crystal on glass effect going on right now.
Eames-era square teak bucket via Etsy, $44
Slick faux-croc with wood and metal accents, via Etsy. $25
Gorgeous lucite find via 1st Dibs. The top pivots open. A mere $850.
A super clean option from Rogaska. I like how it...
Mid-November = Christmas
Halloween was two weeks ago and the Rockefeller Center tree is up (though unlit) which means it is officially Christmas. Forget that it’s 65 degrees out today. Some beautiful, antique, glammy, x-mas images that put me in the spirit today.
Beautiful mercury glass trees in an non-traditional palette.
I’d probably have to hike to Prospect Park to find some meadows full of untouched...
A Peace Treaty
This company makes the most gorgeous, simple, sorta-ethnic, jewelry that somehow avoids all the trendy pit falls. This necklace would be on my Svpply in a heart beat (something about the image isn’t svpplyable). And the little removable end bit totally goes along with my adoration of secret compartments. It’s the wearable equivalent of an old book that opens a secret passageway.
2 Great-beyond-words-or-budgets Rugs
These two carpets I just came across on the same site, might just be the two best rugs I’ve ever seen anywhere. It doesn’t hurt that malachite stone and Yves Klein blue are too of my favorite elements no matter the incarnation. I think Tony Duquette and I would have gotten along just fine.
via Tony Duquette by Roubini Rugs.
Puppy kick
Been talking more and more about getting a pup (well, actually a full-grown pup), but it’s making me a little more dog crazy than usual and I keeping ending up (via internet wormholes) on blogs that are all about adorable animals. Thus, some fave feats of cuteness:
Cracked
So now that my room is very nearly black I need some very nearly white art to make it less bat cave, more dark glamour. Fatefully, I came across these three images all with light art pieces with a ‘cracked’ element to them.
These first two are sort of similar in their minimalism, but somehow range from very modern and intentional feeling (above), to earthy, almost like a twisted root...
October 2011
11 posts
Street Art, House Art
This incredible painting…
…reminded me of this awesome graffiti installation by Barry McGee and Josh Lazcano that was on Houston St. and Bowery earlier this year.
I want to have only art this impactful in my house, graffiti-influenced or otherwise.
Spines Facing In
I’ve seen this a few places now, but I think it’s the coolest bookcase styling choice for a sort of minimalist, textural look. I just came across it again on an Apartment Therapy post, where a commenter of course suggested color coding them (vom). If there were an equivalent to Regretsy for AT house tours, that would be the main component.
Despite being five feet nine and weighing a...
Here is a truly terrible admission. I have never finished—or at least I cannot recollect finishing—a New Yorker feature. This is a sad thought for anyone, but it’s especially mortifying for someone who works at a magazine…at the company that publishes the New Yorker…whose coworkers have copies of that publication delivered to their desks weekly by the New Yorker fairy...
Perfect Palette
These log bowls from Loyal Loot Collective come in some of the most beautiful colors. It’s so strange that you can look at such a wide range of hues and somehow they all fit the same taste. It’s also hugely reassuring to an intrepid living room decorator, trying to make things look like they “go” and wondering how on earth you’re supposed to stick to a color palette...
Shelf Reliance
Despite still not having a couch, coffee table, or any shelving to speak of, the apartment is just starting to come together. The walls are painted (Behr-Pink Cloud), the rug is down, the bar car is sort of stocked, and the couch (Crate & Barrel-Vaughn) is hopefully coming in the next two weeks.
The last great dilemma is the stacks of books and piles of tchotchkes looking for a home....
September 2011
17 posts
