Collage Love II
I promised Emily Amy that I would send her a photograph of my latest purchase as soon as it came back from the framers, so here it is.Collage on paper by Cecil Touchon, framing by the wonderful Framers...
View ArticleRule #84
"Support friends in the arts. Especially if they stink." - Rule Number 84 from 1001 Rules For My Unborn Son.Lucky for me, all of my friends in the arts are super talented. One in particular is Walker...
View ArticleDouble Take
I seriously think someone photoshopped my cat into their magazine layout. (Top photo of imposter cat from from Canada's Style at Home, via Everything LEB. Second photo is the real thing.)Ok, that's...
View ArticleArmour & Co.
It's always interesting to see how Atlanta's shop owners decorate their own homes. Jayme Armour Leffler, owner of Armour & Co. Home Emporium let the Atlanta Journal and Constitution into her 1920's...
View ArticleFlowers and Candlight
A friend asked me about the little wood "vase" I used to hold roses earlier last week. Funny they should ask, because it's actually candle packaging that I thought was too pretty to toss. There's a...
View ArticleWestside Story
To some, Atlanta has the reputation for being made up of a series of soulless strip malls frequented by overweight racists. While I am sure you can find an unfortunate bit of such in the South, The...
View ArticleMiles and Miles
Please don't get me this for Christmas. I'm being serious. I know I am a big Miles Davis fan, but I really don't think I can make it through SEVENTY CDs!! (Although, it's fun to look at the mini-LP...
View ArticleHappy New Year!
Another Atlanta designer has made our city proud! More of Jill Brinson's gorgeous home can be seen in House Beautiful and on this week's Skirted Roundtable.You also may recognize the grounds from the...
View ArticleRight on the Mark
Digging these retro guest bathrooms at The Mark. Fresh off a redesign by Jacques Grange, they include my favorite new bathroom accessory...Disappearing Mirror TVs! I know there has been a lot of...
View ArticleSpanx
The Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles blog just brought the girlie-glam offices at Atlanta-based Spanx to my attention. Now, if only the product packaging was as cool. LOVE Spanx, but I always feel like a...
View ArticleSaarinen & Scott Ingram
I have saved so many images of Eero Saarinen's Pedistal Table, that I had to create a separate file to hold them all. So naturally, I was excited to see that one of my favorite Atlanta artists had...
View ArticleMeeting of the Minds
Tina Barney's brilliant photographs of Tory Burch's Spring 2010 line in Tory Burch's famed New York apartment are almost too perfect. View the shoot here.In somewhat related news, former Atlanta...
View ArticleBeautiful Barcelona
Finally, something to blog about! Just got off the plane, but thought I would post a few photos from our trip to Spain before I try to catch up on my sleep. That damn Icelandic volcano had me tossing...
View ArticleOmm
One of my favorite things about Barcelona is that every era of architecture and design is celebrated. You can visit the carefully preserved ancient city dating from 600 A.D. in the morning, a Gothic...
View ArticleColorphobia & Chocoholism
I am a bit behind on my shelter mag perusal, but this Brooklyn brownstone caught my eye while taking the Eyjafjallajokull reroute home. All of a sudden I want to paint every surface that is not made of...
View ArticleMod South
Architectural photographer, Julius Shulman doing his thing. California, 1960.And one of the resulting images, Case Study House #22When I wrote about the Julius Shulman documentary back in September of...
View ArticleAmerica the Beautiful
...even in the rain. Somewhere near Dillard, Georgia, May 31st, 2010Happy Memorial Day!
View ArticleArt + Design
Artist Ann Carrington's work is everywhere these days! (If you watch Bravo's "9 By Design", then you know what I mean). This time, her Pearly Queen of Dalston appears in the whimsical London pad of...
View ArticleCloset Lust
File this under good ideas:Glass tops for that island in your huge walk-in closet. (As seen in Ashley Tisdale's house in InStyle Magazine, June 2010). Okay, now I'm depressed.
View ArticleSmash His Camera
Pioneer paparazzo, Ron Galella getting his picture taken by a Jackie O. impersonator. We all love those iconic black and white photographs of Jackie O. running around New York City in the early 1970's....
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