Today I’m admiring the lovely home of rorie brennan oconnor on flickr. Love the prints. Love the typewriter. Love the turquoise. Love the paint colors. Love the flair for vintage. Love the chandelier. Also love how she describes herself: “Blasé art historian turned attorney who loves pretty things.”

all photos from flickr member rorie brennan oconnor.

Oops, an oversight! Today’s featured flickr fave Lockette also has a blog called The Locker. Here’s one more shot of how she organizes her work so beautifully:

photo from The Locker

I’m posting these flickr faves a day early because it’s a favorite workspace we missed last week. It comes to us from flickr member lockette. So white. So bright. So ORGANIZED! Those work surfaces and windows make this a perfect creative space. Love the photography too! You can peruse her creations in her Etsy store.

Sometimes student work really is the best! Check out this cool project Swiss project titled “Evolver”:

There’s a cool, if not a little Sprockets-ish, video here:

Project via space invading via archinect

Oddly enough, I’ve been to that very spot, about 25 years ago when was eleven years old. Catch a ride up there in Zermatt.

images by Joel Tettamanti

Ah, an afternoon post – I was very sidetracked as my Style and Substance: The Best of Elle Decor arrived today. I got so into it I haven’t even read David Rohde’s daily installment of “Held by the Taliban” in the Times yet, and that is a seriously riveting serialized read. I thought most of it would look familiar because I flip through my Elle Decor issues again and again and save and make tear sheets galore, but actually, a lot of it was new to me, and the familiar shots were all tear-sheet worthy. The book is set up by space – bedrooms, bathrooms, etc. They range from rustic Martha’s Vineyard bathrooms to opulent “Marrakesh retreats”.

Best of all, Margaret Russell, author and Elle Decor E.I.C. spares the reader from the usual flowery writing for the sake of having X amount of text on the page copy that is so common in such lovely, glossy design books. I mean really, how often do we actually read these books? 85% of the time, I buy interior design books just for the pictures, as they are usually worth a thousand words. Russell sticks to giving a nice introduction to each section, and “Style Guides” at the end of each section. In the guides, she pulls together what we can learn from the spaces and gives easy-to-follow, pragmatic advice about how to glean style skills from the images. This book is one I will pore over many times, and it also makes a great gift.

Who are your favorite interior design writers? Mine include Russell, Celerie Kemble, Jonathan Adler, Billy Baldwin and Dorothy Draper. Please share yours in the comments section.

images via amazon.com, from Elle Decor: Style and Substance, by Michael Mundy and Henry Bourne, respectively.