Knack Studios is a South Carolina based outfit that offers a variety of re-surfaced and re-designed home decor. Their flickr page and blog are both worth a gander, lots of good things going on in both places.
You all remember the lovely stuff from L’Affiche Moderne, I’m sure, from the other day’s post… well, from now til the 30th they have a 25% off EVERYTHING sale, so if you were at all intrigued by any of the art, now is an ideal time to order
Another found item from Singapore. I don’t know what I’m going to do with them yet, but I assume it will be magnificent.
Still haven’t ended my love affair with wall stickers, but I have found a new victim. I’m this close to making a collage of what our babies will look like and sending it to the headquarters of Vinyluse.
(I’m kidding… no more restraining orders, please.)
I stumbled across Kim Westad through Mirror Mirror (which is so fabulous it deserves a post of itself and will get one), and boy am I glad I did. One of those delightful internet gems that you realise you can’t possibly live without, Kim’s ceramic creations are one of a kind and have the dual benefits of being aesthetically pleasing and amazingly versatile. These are just two of her beautiful creations, and I’ll admit it internet, I’m already hooked.
The last time Bambi was in style, I was in daycare. That would be… 18 years ago? At least? Great. Then it’s my pleasure to re-introduce this trend in hipster culture: Bambi. Urban Outfitters is a-wash with the little deer and friends. I guess that’s the next logical step in the woodland creature trend.
Above, from left: You Can Call Me Flower lamp base, $24; Bambi Tray, $14.
Keep up your street cred; buy Bambi on DVD. VHS with a working VHS player is a plus.
I wrote about Alena several months ago (view that post here) so I was pleased to see her new work at urbanoutfitters.com. The triptych of prints is available for $40 for a limited time only.
Also found out today that you can order fabric swatches for furniture online free-of-charge from Urban Outfitters or its sister site and company, Anthropologie. Pretty cool. I love getting packages in the mail, especially when they’re free.
Vanity Fair featured the Palazzo Chupi in the March 2008 edition. The Palazzo Chupi is the Pompeii-red building Julian Schnabel (artist, director, designer) perched on top of a 20th-century factory in Greenwich Village. And Schnabel, of course, is the Renaissance man responsible for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
Photos by Robert Polidori, courtesy of Vanity Fair. See more here or here or here (if you can afford it, it is currently on the market…)
I’ve been ruthlessly organizing and de-cluttering lately, a habit that runs rampant in the early months of every year in any given household. It gets tiresome after awhile, so I’ve compiled a mosaic of inspiring workspaces to keep me going. I am up to my eyelids with sideboards, desks, shelves, and filing cabinets!
PHOTO KEY: 1. white & wood & letters, 2. Chateau wallpaper, 3. white, photos, wood, workspace, 4. Inspiration, 5. thomas o’brien’s living room & inspiration board, 6. nancy_workspace, 7. The Matisse Room, 8. Savannah, 9. Objects for decoration from Millicent & Frank, 10. Studio 06′, 11. New studio redo, 12. The Studio, 13. my desk at home, 14. yellow, 15. studio, 16. my desk-spot, 17. desk, 18. work space, 19. 231_studio.01, 20. My workspace: my desk
Wallpaper From the 70s, above and below. Images are from the gallery on their website. Amazing selection, the showroom gallery is oozing with inspiration.
Very retro color palettes, lots of geometric and organic shapes which we see duplicated in the wallpaper patterns.
Osborne & Little in desaturated, retro patterns (left and right).
Blossom and Dotswold, Anthropologie.com.
Wall tiles, photography by John Gruen for the feature “Beyond Wallpaper” in Domino magazine. Clockwise from top left: cork tile, metal tile, glass tile, and paper tile.
These rooms are filled with soothing (but energetic) palettes and simple, fun furnishings, from the home of none other than Jon (who you might know from LA apartmenttherapy). I love almost everything about this home, and I love Jon’s mantra of beauty in simple things even more.
See, every day can be beautiful… even hump day. ;)
I googled “ooga booga” this afternoon in a fit of curious silliness, and boy am I glad I did because I found the charmingly hip LA-based Ooga Booga store. And within the Ooga Booga store I found something called “Wallscapes,” which are giant poster panels that completely transform a living (or work) space and nothing short of brilliant. Does your apartment rock in every way except for that lone window that faces a back alley? Do you work in a cubicle (you poor thing, you, come here and I’ll pour you a spot of tea)? Do you suffer from wanderlust, are you just plain bored of your surroundings? Problem solved.
From the Ooga Booga website (sorry for copy-and-pasting, but I don’t think I could explain it better myself!): Inspired by and developed for the exhibition BLESS fits every style at the Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Bless wallscapes are documents of interiors where Bless products live or have lived. The wallscape posters can either be purchased as posters of a 3m high x 4m wide format (coming in 9 strips of 44,5 cm ) or as some sort of a paravent, made of 4 wooden panels. These wooden panels include eventually in addition some 3 dimensional shelves that enhance the feeling of confusion while aproaching, because real objects melt virtually into the 2 dimensional space. The visitor has the feeling of walking into a collage.
Did you get that? The visitor has the feeling of walking into a collage. That’s so cool. I imagine it feeling like living in a dollhouse, which seems to appeal to the fairytale-loving side of me very, very much.
There are 5 different wallscapes available from Ooga Booga which you can order by email or telephone (#1, featured above; #2, my favorite, I think; #3; #4, an insane leopard print; and #5, featured below).
Are you familiar with Lorena Siminovich’s work? She crafts delightful collages (a couple of which you can view below) and I wanted to give a heads up to anyone who might be in the San Francisco area next month about the opening of her new show “untie & unfold.”
Collages that are currently available for purchase can be found here.
Lorena also has a bunch of pictures of her home on Flickr (click to visit). Enjoy the eye candy and be sure to visit Lorena on November 9th!
Loving that glassware collection.
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