Skip made homemade waffles for breakfast. He does not mess around!

Meet Skip Flynn. Modern design fan, collector of uniquely shaped baking pans (He has a honeycomb one), Triumph Motorcycle enthusiast and Design Public customer.

He’s also one of my best friends so on a recent visit to Boston I ended up staying at Skip’s new loft in historic Quincy Massachusetts. Enjoy the pictures.

Skip's loft in Quincy Massachusetts

Erich Ginder Antlers & Harry Allen Grans Candlesticks

Fauna Pillow (Plaid on the back -- rad!)

Homemade waffle on Jason Miller Seconds dinnerware

The waffle was YUM!

Before it gets too after-the-fact I need to take a quick break from our Organization Blog Fest to give a quick THANK YOU to the fine folks at notNeutral and Intelligentsia for the delicious latte I was served upon my arrival at the notNeutral booth at the The International NY Gift Show a few weeks back – delicious.

To give a little background: notNeutral has collaborated up with the best coffee people in the country – Intelligentsia – to create a line of durable and beautiful ceramic cups intended to be the “perfect vessels for all things espresso”. The entire project took 36 iterations and almost two years of effort:

“Our desire in designing this particular piece is a seamless marriage of form and function that aids the barista in the perfect pour and balances effortlessly in the drinker’s hand. In this case, the perfect cappuccino cup.

Indeed, THIS is a lovely coffee cup and lucky for me I was able to put one through the paces and enjoy some caffeinated goodness in the process!

We’ll post more about the project later but for now I just wanted to thank the fine folks at Intelligentsia and NotNeutral for the hospitality. Intelligentsia has several locations in Chicago, Los Angeles and now a instructional facility here in NYC. If you’re interested in advancing your barista skills I highly recommend checking out their classes. More on the cups here. Thanks fellas!

From the New York Gift Show

On location Intelligentsia barista pulling shots of liquid gold from a La Marzocco GS/3:

We dropped in on the always delightful DwellStudio booth at the New York Gift Show yesterday. Here’s a preview from their soon-to-be-available Spring 2010 collection. More to come!

DwellStudio Peacock Bedding at the NY Gift Show:

Big news. To celebrate the launch of DwellStudio’s new table collection we’re giving away FIVE excellent prizes to FIVE of our most excellent readers. You’ve got FIVE days to enter (see a pattern here?) but you’ve got to be in it to win it. Prizes will be awarded at random.

The Goods (i.e. Things You Can Win)

Prize #1: Set of 4 Color Field placemats in Ink

Prize #2: Set of 4 Woodblock napkins in Ink

Prize #3: Mosaic Runner in Sun

Prize #4: Set of 4 Gate coasters & set of 4 Gate cocktail napkins, all in Java

Prize #5: Woodblock apron in Lake

How To Enter

Simply take a looksee a the new DwellStudio Table collection and tell us your favorite in the comments below! Couldn’t be easier.

Entries will be accepted up until midnight PST on Saturday, July 18th and the five winners will be chosen at random and announced on Monday the 20th. Have fun and good luck.

N.B. Winners will be chosen at random and contacted via email (read: make sure we can contact you at the email address provided.) Prizes will be awarded randomly so unfortunately we cannot accomodate preferences…but doesn’t that make it more fun anyway?

Just thought I’d share these pictures I took while flying back from NYC to San Francisco last week. Below is Yosemite Valley.

Mountains are awesome.

Have a GREAT weekend!