Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Incroyable!

I have never before seen anything like the Tamara Roof Chair and Loveseat being offered right now at Home Decorators Collection (a site I just discovered, unfortunately, otherwise I'd have purchased a thing or two for my new apartment! interesting to note: several of the furniture pieces featured here can also be found at Target).






{images from Home Decorators Collection}


When I am furnishing my ancient and mad Parisian apartment, filled to the gills with dusty old books, specimen jars, rusted tin boxes, and antique curios to both delight and bewilder, you can bet that these two unique seats will settle right into the decor - bien sur! (Preferably in a room that has some very moody dark blue "fairy tale garden" sort of wallpaper!)

Although I didn't particularly love the movie, I can't help but think of The Dreamers when I look at this furniture. Somehow, they echo each other's mood.

Thanks decor8 for pointing me to the Web site!

Friday, January 16, 2009

Furniture *LUST*!!

If I haven't mentioned already (-cough cough-) my extreme affection for decor which incorporates various winged things in nature, let me put a fine point on it now: I adore it. As a result, my lust for this piece by FOLKFORM is just about out of control.




{image from FOLKFORM}


Materials listed are: Masonite hard board, 32 real butterflies from Adam Stechs collection, birch wood. How cool is that?!

Thank you Poppytalk for pointing it out!

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Basic Grey

I'm late to the party (again!), I realize, but I just discovered Basic Grey papers and I am in LOVE!









I'd been thinking for a while that I might cover the glass panes of my new Julia cabinet with decorative paper (perhaps origami paper), to give myself the freedom to store things in a cluttered way inside and to bring a bit of colour in with all the black and white furniture.





{image from target.com}


I may still do that, but now I'm thinking these papers might make gorgeous mats for wall artwork! I'm thinking of perhaps alternating styles as outer mats and also as interior mats, just peeking out beneath the plain mat in front of the art...









Only trouble is, I can't decide which designs to choose! At only about 70 cents per 12" sheet, it's hard to pick!

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

'stache





Random Etsy search for "mustache."

Friday, January 9, 2009

Shadowplay by Adam Frank: featured artist

(No, not Ad Frank.)

New York artist Adam Frank has landed on something so simple and obvious - and yet so overlooked - it's genius: lighting which focuses not just on what it illuminates, but on the shadows it casts. Shadows are the central aspect of both his Reveal and Lumen creations. (I prefer the Lumen, myself!)





(I am actually very surprised at how extremely affordable the Lumen series is in comparison with so many over-priced art objects scattered throughout the design world... I say grab one before he catches on!)






{images from adamfrank.com}

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Tweet!

I *love* this headboard! If I were designing something like this for a child's room, I would make sure the little birdhouse opened up somehow into a little "secret" cubby.




{image originally posted on Lily G online}

Friday, January 2, 2009

Eureka!

A while ago, I fell in absolute love with the Brunschwig & Fils' fabric "Dzhambul." Unfortunately, it tends to run a bit expensive...

However, I just found a less expensive fabric called "Suzani," which I think is very very close to Dzhambul. In fact, I have to say I think I like it just a little bit more!

Anyway, I just had an epiphany. My aunt is a crazy fanatic quilter. She's already offered to make me a runner for my new dining table (she's way more excited about it than I am!). It just occurred to me that I might be able to ask her if I could purchase the fabric, have it sent to her, and ask her if she would be willing to make two pillow shams for my new sofa (I figure I'll pick up some big pillows for that purpose at Ikea). This would be PERFECT!



Love!



p.s. You know what I think would be kind of hot? Instead of a normal pillow sham, two somewhat-more-rigid-than-your-normal-sham square panels of fabric, one for the front and one for the back, tied together artfully at the four corners (so, obviously, there would have to be some kind of under-sham). Could be gorgeous, if done well!