Saturday, February 17, 2007
Flickr Find - marydeluxe53
marydeluxe53 clearly loves vintage 1950's decor. Her house is decorated top to bottom in fantastic retro 1950's finds. It is so damn cute.
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Labels: Flickr
Friday, February 16, 2007
Gaile Guervara
Gaile is an Interior Designer based in Vancouver and New York. Another friend made through Flickr, Gaile has an amazing blog where she shares in her own words "great works of MODERN architecture, design, precision of minimal detail, quality and honesty of materials, timeless and sophisticated interiors". It's a wonderful blog check it out! And don't forget to visit her Flickr photostream.
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| Gorlin Architects | Kelly Hoppen | |
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| Gorlin Architects | Gorlin Architects | |
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| Gabellini Sheppard Associates LLP | Ken Hayden |
Labels: blog
What's the weather up to?
Poor Kim, poor northern hemisphere readers. This is what the weather is like here. OK I lie it's overcast today but it's normally like this.....
Image from Redlands Tourism Click on the image for a better idea of how beautiful this part of the world is. Sometimes I forget.
Black and white living rooms
I cannot begin to express how much I love black and white colour palettes. It is just so classic and modern, and easy to switch out accent colours if you tire of things easily like I do. So here are some photos of black and white living rooms.
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| Bernstein & Andriulli | Riehl Designs, Inc. |
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| Domino | Ghislaine Viñas |
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| Studioilse | Tocar Design |
Labels: black and white, living room
Pappas Miron
Pappas Miron Design mixes antiques, vintage textiles, flea market finds and modern pieces to produce a relaxed and liveable modern interior. Tatyana and Alexandra aren't married to one style and feel free to improvise, finding the potential in second hand pieces. See more on their website.
All images from Pappas Miron.
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All images from Pappas Miron.
Labels: interior designer
Marion Hall Best
Regarded by many as the founder of Australian interior design, Marion Hall Best was the local arbiter of the latest style in the 60s. Her interiors showcased the best of what the world had to offer as well as providing a platform for promoting Australian design. In a post war world of "porridge" colours Marion is probably best known for her vivid glazed walls, colourful undercoats with contrasting translucent glazes; yellow over red,pink, black, blue or green producing intriguing tangerines, olives, aquamarines and chartreuses. Her Woollahra, Sydney shop became known internationally as an authoritative index of the latest modern trends in interior design. But perhaps her best work was in supporting promising young local talent including Gordon Andrews and Grant Featherston.
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All images from "The Best Style. Marion Hall Best and Australian Interior Design 1935-1975" by Michaela Richards. These are original photos from the time and the quality is not the best but the design is first class.
Labels: Australia, interior designer, retro
Thursday, February 15, 2007
So cold....so bloody cold
I just found this picture and had to laugh - and then had to post it. It seems everyone (except Jo and Anna, the aussies) has been suffering through horrible weather lately and after weeks of FREEZING cold temperatures up here, I thought this picture accurately portrayed how I feel (and look?? - this cow has more hair than I do FOR SURE).
Books
Many people collect books and often use standard Billy bookcases to store them. While it may be economical, it is not a very unique way to display them. I can admit that because guess where my books are housed? Here are some interesting ways to display them that don't necessarily involve our good friend Billy.
Bernstein & Andriulli
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| William Waldron | Cotemaison |
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| Bernstein & Andriulli | William Waldron |
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| Mark Cutler | Cotemaison |
Bernstein & Andriulli
Labels: books
Mirrored furniture
Mirrored furniture is so glamourous. Not only can you see your fabulous reflection in it, but it adds sparkle to a room and is light in terms of visual weight. So have a look at these amazing pieces and why not go out and get yourself something mirrored like Pink Mohair did.
And, because I couldn't NOT post this photo given the subject matter:
Fisher Weisman
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| Graham and Green | Graham and Green |
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| Graham and Green | Graham and Green |
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| Harlequin | Jay Jeffers |
And, because I couldn't NOT post this photo given the subject matter:
Fisher Weisman
Labels: furniture
I like Pink
No this is not another post on pink rooms. This is a post for Pink, blogger extraordinaire of pink mohair and casapinka. She loves the g hotel, Galway Ireland, a Monogram Hotel designed by reknowned hat designer Philip Treacy, a native of Galway.
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And Philip Treacy hats....yum!
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Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Surfaces
Ingrid Cran, from Calgary emailed me with a question. "I have been searching for exterior, curb appeal, window ideas for updating fifties bungalows. Do you know of any good resources on the web?" I thought maybe some of you out there would have some links for Ingrid. I wasn't much help. Also, Ingrid works for a company called Surfaces that develops innovative art applications. She sent me some really cool photos so I had to plug her work at the same time. (Don't forget to post some links in the comments for her!)
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Labels: art
Photographer Graham Atkins-Hughes
I stumbled upon photographer Graham Atkins-Hughes' portfolio recently and discovered some fantastic photos of interiors. The following is my favourite - I am sure the paint technique was done for the purposes of this photo but the more I look at this photo, the more I think this might actually work in the real world. You just better make sure you like the table and accessories!
Labels: photographer
Another apartment I really love
I can't quite put my finger on it but maybe it's the eclectic mix of pieces. The white on white with punches of colour. The Baroque and roll of 60s movies. Iain Halliday of Burton Katon Halliday, an award winning Australian design firm, has grown a little tired of hard edged design. Here's his interpretion of a "modern and traditional at the same time Italian interior" transplanted to the Sydney seaside.
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Labels: Australia, favourites
Palm Springs - mid century wonderland
Jaime from Design Milk shared a link with me. OMG..... wait til you see Mid Century Real Estate where you're "buying a lifestyle not a home". I'm dreaming of moving to Palm Springs or maybe moving Palm Springs to Australia.
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All images from Mid Century Real Estate
PS I haven't even posted the exteriors!
Labels: midcentury, retro
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Panton S Chair
Here it is, probably my favourite chair EVER. I was thinking of getting two to put at each end of my dining table (as in the first photo). If you own one, send me a photo. I would love to see how you used it in your space.
Style at Home Magazine
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Labels: chairs
Chairs
I love chairs - all styles, shapes, sizes, colours. I love their sculptural quality. I went through my photos and found a variety of different styles featured. I will be doing a post shortly on my favourite chair so stay tuned!
Labels: chairs
Black and white
More black and white. So classic, so modern, so graphic.
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| Belle | Belle |
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| Elle Decoration | Australian House and Garden |
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| Belle | Elle Decoration |
Labels: black and white
Monday, February 12, 2007
Coffee tables
Coffee tables seems to be a pretty popular topic these days. Jennifer Ramos sent us a link to her website featuring some of her unique coffee tables, like this one:
The guys at modern self emailed us about some great DIY projects such as this pendant light, this amazing paint finish and this coffee table as seen below:
Must also mention the FAB-U-LOUS coffee table recently purchased by Danielle of the style files.
The guys at modern self emailed us about some great DIY projects such as this pendant light, this amazing paint finish and this coffee table as seen below:
Must also mention the FAB-U-LOUS coffee table recently purchased by Danielle of the style files.
Labels: coffee tables
OMG - Dolce and Gabbana
A few posts ago I featured the dining room of D&G's Portofino holiday pad. Now for the rest of this understated waterfront shack. And yes that's gold mosaic tile on the wall. Subtle. I can't wait to try this at home.
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All images from Australian Vogue Living.
Labels: OMG
Wierd and wacky art
Much time was spent on Flickr in the past laughing over photos of rooms that had some pretty strange artwork. I thought it was about time Jo or I posted some wacky artwork. I found so many photos that there will definitively be more posts about this in the near future. So here's part 1:
Labels: art
The Queen of Hollywood Regency 1
Kelly Wearstler who else! I've been seduced by her finely curated take on contemporary luxury. With a nod to the legends of the past William Haines, Dorothy Draper, Billy Baldwin and Tony Duquette Kelly Wearstler is the West Coast's "style guru". She's everywhere from the leading interior design publications to Top Design. To hell with the hype! I can't get enough.
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