The sweet vintage dress on ebay
and the bedroom of my dreams
via decor8

My new favorite chair
and the French florist's uniform.
She wore heels of course.
so good.

La & Ty's
sweet little apt.
small is grand

...moving in my blue tea set
with her looking over me

Moving
this weekend.
My new abode feels quite Shaker

Rule # 1 of 1
Use a single sheet of paper

Hirshhorn Art Museum Contest

(Thank you RGM!)

Absolutely beautiful
architecture, flower pots,
and sheer white curtain walls.
This is my new favorite book.

HOUSES

SANAA
Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa

APC
Spring 2008

After tea at Teany
I spotted this lovely desk

Japanese keys
imperfect porcelain

$8 at Rare Device
Designer: Saikai, Japan

(via apartment therapy)

Looking for "life-size" linens on ebay,
I stumbled upon this vintage
doll house bed quilt.
Quite graphic.

...thinking of china
and this red railing
in Shanghai

Strangely,
I love this Salvation Army find:
A woman with her rosary beads,
immaculate and covered,
now hanging in my
living room

Task #1

A Pantone color guide for Quebec City, QC

"Revealing Urban Colours"
By Todd Falkowsky

Ah, the color palettes of our cities!
Graphically speaking, I think it is so interesting
to distinguish the color sequence
of a particular city.



For me,
Paris is grey
New York is soot brown
Stockholm is burnt copper
and San Francisco is a rainbow of pastels

via: The Walrus

Good morning Lauren!
I thought you'd like to wake up
and see your own bedroom staring
right back at you.

(note her new Weinrib carpet)

4 coats, 3/4 sleeve



3/4

Les Prairies des Paris
Opening Ceremony
3.1 Phillip Lim

Spring forward...
When I think of a great cut jacket
I think of Yves saint Laurent
(classic yet other-worldly)
fittingly shown at
Le Grand Palais
Paris

My morning in the Bowery
continued with a stop at the
New 235 Bowery Museum

For a good long moment,
I stared at the great verticality of the building.
I stared at a young man's bright purple pants.
And I stared at cinema's one-of-a-kind,
Maggie Cheung, standing so casually
beside me.

2 or 3 things...

I liked the museum's architecture,
designed by Japanese firm SANAA
I liked the Wolff Olins graphic campaign
(thus, I kept my beautiful ticket stub)
I liked the colorful bathroom tiles,
as I photographed above.

...and yet, I disliked all the art

New + Old
Bond St.
NYC

Let's just say, the Bowery
ain't the Bowery anymore.

the old cast-iron hood has new neighbors.
Rather precocious impersonators;
borderline presumptuous...a bit fresh
(which ever way you read it)

Sigur Rós

returns home





Heima
=
'at home' / 'homeland'

After years of traveling the globe,
the Icelandic Alt. rock group, Sigur Rós,
longed to return home and play for the
very country and people who helped
cultivate their distinct sound.




The beautiful film, Heima,
documents the 2 week journey of Sigur Rós
as they played free, unannounced concerts for
the people and places that make up "home".
Whether it was in old factories, community halls,
barely fields, or at the foot of majestic mountains,
old & young grabbed a blanket
and listened to their famed-boys
play just for them.

watch trailer
The film has a beautifully
eerie "Pink Floyd" feeling

Anarchy Rules
"Punk House: Interiors in Anarchy"
by Abby Banks

...so a little chaos is fun.
Sometimes I feel a bit burdened
by the esteemed world of design.
So I think my style tends to fall between:
clean elegance + pack-rat eclecticism.
I try to control my piles and random collections,
but maybe I should embrace it more?
perfection is kinda boring...much less,
possible?



I think of Archigram's
psychedelic urban wanderings
...and these "makeshift-decor" spaces
photographed by Bilyana Dimitrova





These interiors feel like a Bernardo Bertolucci film:
passionate, surreal, spontaneous, unrestrained
Didn't our dadaist-friend, André Breton,
call this" automatism"?



Give me day-glow pink!
Electric Acid Kool-Aid Test

~bedroom nook~

The canopy looks like
Marimekko, and it's on Ebay
Cotton "Kaivo" $38/yd
here and here

Domino
(photo credit: Simon Upton)

A Bronx Tale



An abandoned 16-room Bronx mansion,
previously owned by Williams Evers,
was just bought by a young family for $675,000
Practically untouched for decades, the
house is just radiating mystery
...and tedious renovation!





(NY Times photo credits: Christian Hansen)

the cool, clean, compact grid

SPACE: Japanese Solutions for Living
by Michael Freeman

Dreaming of this APT
"moving out"
Amsterdam

P2an via Andy

On 16th + Guerrero





3 lovely ladies co-habitat
the 2nd story of this rad
San Francisco Mission flat.

While my age group tends to get a
bad rap for consuming way too much IKEA and
Container Store organizers (oh dear), I have for you
my friends, a refreshing example of post-collegiate students
who have chosen to look beyond the standard to take a stab at
their own sensibility for design...and experimentation!





In the heart of the Mission District,
Madeleine, Noël and Kendra have created
their inspiring + cohesive abode by integrating
textiles from home and thrifty global finds with
their own unique + youthful interpretations of
northern California living





Over the years, I have noticed one fundamental
difference between Brooklyn and SF apartment living.
Apart from the significant difference in sq footage, what
SF apartments also have over NYC (I'm sorry!), is a
keen interest in the natural environment.
It's amazing how beach + surf culture
trickle into the interiors like
sand on bare feet.



(photo credits: myself...and Tyler M.)

2 or 3 things I love...

1. The 40's feel of the apartment
blue kitchen banquet seats, a diner-style table,
an insanely large brass doorbell, white cupboards and tiny alcoves
(perfect for scattering old picture frames and flower vases)

2. African accents
graphic textiles, reed wall art,
animal figurines and carved wooden chairs

3. Raoul Textiles
Madeleine's mother, Sally McQuillan,
is the founder of the acclaimed Raoul Textiles.
Sally's breezy florals, whimsical paisleys and
beach inspired graphics are hand-printed
in her Santa Barbara studio

In order to create a 3rd room out of a 2 bed-apt.,
Madeleine mounted Raoul fabric over an insulation pad
to create a beautiful divider between the living/former dinning space.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

dictating a novel
letter by letter



For the devoted women who sat beside
ELLE editor, Jean-Dominique Bauby,
and his blinking left eyelid...

"the journey was the destination" -Dan Eldon

PRADA
Resort 2008

Front Studio

A new year.
Maybe we'll try
some Urban Farming.



Sleeping light.
I want this bed.
Also from M + Y

know more