Tuesday, December 7, 2010

it's official...


Our shout out in Mary Chamberlain's new cookbook "The Traveling Soup Pot"

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Small pleasures


The combination of 18pt Futura and that lovely grey-lavender make my day.

Friday, November 5, 2010

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Don Blanding




Love the work of artist/poet Don Blanding. His poem below:
Joshua Trees
Sentries by day with bayonets on guard,
Prophets by night in attitudes of prayer;
But when the dusk spreads veils across the hard
Sharp outlines of the land they hear an air,
Piped on a Pan-ic flute, unseen and far,
An echo from and older, gayer land;
They catch the winking of an elfin star
And dance a quaint arthritic saraband.
*note: one of the D.B. books I scanned these prints from was originally priced a mere $2.50!

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

ready to build a dreamhouse, who's with me?





















all images scanned from a favorite book of mine, "woodstock handmade houses"
...will just have to build my own one of these days

Monday, October 25, 2010

Friday, October 22, 2010

mantilla


the cut reported on daphne guinness wearing a mantilla - which i lauded.
above is her out & about in the mantilla & a vintage 90's american vouge interpretation.

Thursday, October 21, 2010

just becuase

love, love, love this spread. and every other spread in american vouge's december 1994 issue -the issue that made me want to be a fashion designer, ha! (not kidding, after looking at that issue i started looking into fashion colleges.) bring back the magic, vouge!
**scanned by moi

who are you - a decor dilemma








not just a decor question, but a life question and i can't decide - sleek or cluttered, busy or open...is it possible to have both? must say, the tiled kitchen is my favorite though (it belongs to silvia fendi and is in their home on the italian island of ponza, sigh).
**all images scanned by me from back issues of house beautiful, vouge, W, los angeles times magazine & an italian magazine i can't remember

Thursday, October 7, 2010

love it

valentino's spring 11 collection took a page from my heart. and i was just going on about how awful the shows have been...




Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Tuesday, May 18, 2010