A LITTLE OVERCAST today, which means searching for colour anywhere we can find it — the bright pink roses from P. on my desk at the office, a dash of red lipstick, and a glimpse, for old time’s sake, into Iris Apfel’s three-bedroom Manhattan apartment, from the June 2011 issue of Architectural Digest.
THIS STUNNING 18-CENTURY riad, or courtyard house, in the fishing town of Essaouira, Morroco, was an impulse buy and renovation project for New...
. . . ever since we begun decorating our place, have been collecting inspiration photos of gallery walls, as well as frames of varying shades and colours, but always seem to be drawn to black, white & gold; it is always fascinating to how other walls have come together, to examine the parts that make up the whole, and not only is this wall, above, in decorative-arts dealers laurence and patrick seguin’s beautifully assembled, but it also happens to be the ground floor of a 17th-century mansion in le marais, in paris . . .
. . . there are currently framed photographs and artwork leaning against the walls all over the house, waiting to be artfully arranged into gallery walls — above the desk, in the hall, perhaps even in the powder room — and one could only hope the are as perfect as this, of stark contrasts and paired with a stunning chandelier, in the breakfast nook . . .