ON AN ESPECIALLY grim day around here, there will always be someone who mutters well you don't live in Britain for the weather. And while that may be true, it's definitely cosy when you're sitting in someone's home for tea where it's bright and warm.
BY PURE COINCIDENCE, I recently watched both It's Complicated, the 2009 film with Meryl Streep, Steve Martin, and Alec Baldwin; and Father of the Bride, the 1991 film with Steve Martin and Diane Keaton. Now everyone knows that when you watch Nancy Meyers films, the interiors nearly steal every scene (remember the charming cottage in The Holiday?), so when I came across the writer-director-producer's redecorated Los Angeles home, of course I had to have a peek, especially since she worked with LA-based interior designer Mark D. Sikes, whose work has been featured here many times.
P recently dusted off an old Fuji camera he bought when it first came out a few years ago. He still has two good lenses for it, so he thought it might work fine with a just few firmware updates. We had a late lunch planned for last Friday at a place by the seaside that had only just opened last spring, so it was a good chance to try the camera then. He took pictures of the sea, the dune grasses, and me.
THE LAST TIME we featured the 1928 Hollywood Hills, California home of interior designer Mark D. Sikes was in 2016 (see how it looked here). It was the second iteration of the place, we believe? Three years ago, in 2019, the designer embarked on a third redesign that was featured at Architectural Digest that we only discovered now, and quite a lot has changed. New fabrics have been brought in, most notably the blue white Brunschwig & Fils check that ensconces the dining room from floor to ceiling. ...
Designer and taste-maker Mark D. Sikes is well known for his love affair with blue and white, which we at...
AT BELGRAVE CRESCENT, we recently wrote about decorating with blue, and are surprising ourselves today with more blue (& white)...
MARK D. SIKES studied finance and economics in college, fancying a life in international business. Along the way, he ended...
Los Angeles-based interior designer Mark D. Sikes imbued this Park Avenue, New York apartment with old-world elegance and a wonderful sense...
WE ARE PLOTTING & PLANNING, and dreaming & scheming, and on the brink 0f the next big adventure. There is...
. . . dusky, moody, romantic interior design inspiration from the book, Interiors Atelier AM, by Alexandra Misczynski and Michael Misczynski, with the always-beautiful photography of François Halard . . .
. . . and with all this talk of styling, we, jessica & i, and have been dreaming up ideas...
