Sad Day!

Domino is closing. via Mediaweek. It sucked to have Blueprint gone... but really? Domino?

unexpected inspiration

i saw this image in traditional home and well.... i love it. the colors the graphics, the motif. very updated and fashion forward i think. no?

Elle Decoration Apr 08

While reading the latest volume of Elle Decoration (the UK version of our Elle Decor), I found a few things I wanted to share :)

1) Habitat : really cool, but not available in the US. We'll have to work on that. Interior / exterior, etc.

2) one of the feature articles- 'Yellow Fever' -documents a Paris apartment's re-do based on this white / grey / yellow combination we've been RAVING about for months! :) My question is: design aside, where is there any sign that someone actually LIVES here, or for that matter, COULD live here? I want to see this combination and this sense of attention to detail in an apartment that provokes you to live like a normal human being. Can you imagine how the designer would shudder at the sight of a pair of shoes left in the corner, or someone's toys left in a pile in the middle of the floor? Lord help us if there were a real plate or a bottle of ketchup on the table..

love at first sight

photo from elle decor magazine

I am positively in love... LOVE with Frank Roop's (the sartorialist) and his wife Sharon's Boston duplex. It was featured in Elle Decor on their homepage. Really there is nothing that I do not like about this duplex, from the polished concrete counters in the kitchen to the shades of blue and teal all around (surprise!) He has a brilliant mix of old and new. Antiques and modernism. The wall treatments are positively gorgeous as well. view the slideshow here.