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It’s Back! The Ubiquitous Mask!

Becky

June 18th, 2008
Posted by Becky

Honestly, this mask has become my own personal Where’s Waldo of design magazines. For the third time in as many months, Peter Dunham’s African mask is in a design publication. This month, it’s House Beautiful:

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By the way, there was a very interesting post and resulting conversation in the comments section over at Decorno this week, regarding “eclectic style.” Click here to check it out.

photo from House Beautiful 

Design Drinking Games

Becky

May 28th, 2008
Posted by Becky

Here are a few new objects for our design drinking games. “Take a swig” everytime you see one of the following:

A Globe Collection:

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Not-so-casually-tossed Hermes boxes (”casually tossed” Hermes boxes count too). Do stylists just keep a bunch of these in their cars for photo shoots?:

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Gaining on the Tom Ford book and The Cabinet of Natural Curiousities, it’s the Tony Duquette book! Also in this picture, another trend, putting an entire shrub into a vase.

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Tortoise shells, real and faux. By the way, picture number two is chock full of extra points, so look carefully: (more…)

Design Drinking Games - Helmut Newton on a Music Stand

Becky

February 4th, 2008
Posted by Becky  |  5 Comments

What’s the same about these two pictures?:

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I had to laugh as I looked through last month’s Metropolitan Home.  Apparently the new item du jour is the Helmut Newton book on a music stand.  These two layouts were only a few pages apart in the same issue.  I think the top photo will probably win in terms of the number of trendy objects:  we have some horny legs on a stool as well as a Barcelona daybed all in one room.  Though if we could see the books in the second photo, it might win out - certainly the Tom Ford book is in those shelves somewhere! Met Home,  I generally love you anyway, this just gave me a chuckle like seeing the same flower arrangement over and over again in the same issue does!

Float like a butterfly sting like a…

Becky

January 31st, 2008
Posted by Becky  |  3 Comments

When I think of butterflies, I think of two things:

1) The Silence of the Lambs

2) Even more terrifying than that, Mariah Carey’s apartment on MTV Cribs.

However, Alexander McQueen, who rocks, has me coming around to butterfly love just a little. Perhaps it’s because of Julian Schnabel. Whatever it is, I believe we are in the middle of a butterfly blitzkrieg in design right now:

Alexander McQueen as seen in Harper’s Bazaar:

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from Domino magazine:

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Design Drinking Games - Indoor Log Pile Trend

Becky

January 7th, 2008
Posted by Becky  |  3 Comments

Catching up on my glossies last week, I had to laugh - opened up this issue of Domino:

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Because the page right underneath it looked like this:

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The log piles were literally stacked on top of each other when the magazine was closed.  Displaying logs seems to be a timeless styling trick and not necessarily a trend that will die out.  Here’s the cover of an 1964 H&G I keep right next to my own fireplace: (more…)

Trendy Objects Drinking Game Carries On and Spreads`

Becky

August 8th, 2007
Posted by Becky  |  3 Comments

TREND ALERTS!

I haven’t been keeping up on our ubiquitous design object drinking games/trendy object scavenger hunt (Part II is here), whatever you want to call it, but some other bloggers have had some great posts with more objects. Megan over at BeachBungalow8 has a list right here, and Style Court has some design library additions here.

The latest for me? These gorgeous Suzani prints are popping up more and more lately. Here’s one in a beautiful room from Style Court*:

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Another object spreading through blog world (and apparently to a lot of bloggers walls) is this Partridge Family-esque print by GoodShapeDesign:

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The Foo Dogs Tipping Point

Becky

July 31st, 2007
Posted by Becky  |  6 Comments

p_r445_pip_st_f07_070619155101_pip_hero.jpgHello! I love getting back from vacation and getting a ton of fun mail - my Charley Harper book and my Feed Bag finally arrived from Amazon, and I had a stack of fun catalogs to look through. As I perused West Elm, which I do like, one item jumped out at me - a Foo Dog Pillow. Really? I know imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but sometimes the imitation is shameless - clearly someone over there is reading Jonathan Adler’s Guide to Anti-Depressive Living, and Foo Dogs have gone from drinking game fodder to over the tipping point. In fact, it looks like they have officially jumped the shark. In addition, there was a chunky foo dog figurine and a tripod lamp that looked a lot like Adler’s:

Jonathan Adler Ventana Lamp:

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West Elm Adjustable Metal Floor Lamp: (more…)


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