WE ARE BACK with our Design History series, and this week, we’re taking a closer look at an essential material in modern manufacturing and construction: stainless steel.
THERE IS a sense of calm in the spaces designed by Warsaw-based interior architect and CG artist Julia Bimer. While there is definitely restraint, it doesn't feel oppressive.
THERE IS A LINE from a Bruce Springsteen song that goes: “I wanna change my clothes, my hair, my face“⏤and while I don’t want to change my face, I do like to change my clothes (often), and my hair (sometimes⏤in fact, just last week). A friend once asked me if I changed my décor tastes to match where I happen to be living at the time (she was visiting us in Spain), and I realise that yes, yes I guess I do.
ARE YOU CLEANING and sorting and organising? We are. In fact, it's all we've been doing for the past month and a week. This year, more than other new years, seems to bring out that desire to clear out and begin again. There are too many dongles for the too many tablets and phones and desktop screens, and books and magazines and old newspapers threaten to overtake wicker baskets and racks while framed artwork and photos lean against walls and remain unhung.
MANY WILL HAVE CAUGHT a glimpse of J.Crew’s Creative Director, Jenna Lyons’, former Park Slope brownstone [above], for it was...
AND THIS WEEK seems to be flying by, and yet, all around, there seems, at once, to be a stillness in the air, the calm before the holiday madness begins in a flurry of egg nog and last-minute shopping. Here, there are a million and one things still left to do...
FOR THIS WEEK’S [PLACES], it’s away and off to La Socelière, a 17th-century chateau in the Loire Valley. Resting on nearly 20 acres of gardens, forest, and pasture, it is a wonderland of 1940s Italian rococo sofas and armchairs upholstered in purple velvet...
There’s something very organic and alive about these kitchens — all the green and organised messiness conjures up images of lazy weekends and strong coffee and crinkled oxford shirts, waffles and fresh strawberries and very good conversation . . .
Donald Clarence Judd (1928 – 1994) was an American artist associated with minimalism, a term he strongly disavowed. In his work, the artist “sought autonomy and clarity for the constructed object and the space created by it”...
. . . nearly always hide the dish soap away in the cupboards under the sink -- that is, before happening the wonderful idea of storing & displaying pretty dish soap dispensers on an elegant silver tray alongside, of course, a beautiful bouquet of lilac-coloured roses . . .
