As I perused our Fresh New Spaces pool, this great vignette caught my eye:

This shot is from flickr member Alyn Carlson. She’s a graphic designer – you can check out her inspirations at her blog, colorgirl, and you can check out her work here.

O.K. I promised you a little more Eileen Gray last week, so here goes…

Chest of drawers, early 1920s

These remind me of those awesome new Claude modular dressers that Jonathan Adler just designed. I feel like he must have been inspired by Eileen when he sat down to sketch.

Bedroom from the Rue Bonaparte apartment. How sexy is this?

Transat chairs, circa 1925-1930

I love seeing original sketches like these! These are part of the collection at The Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

All images via Eileen Gray: Design and Architecture by Phillipe Garner and published by TASCHEN. I highly recommend adding it to your design library. It’s available used at Amazon for about $10!

In my effort to not be featured on Hoarders in the next ten years, I have been cleaning out drawers, cabinets, closets and attic spaces since the new year. It’s funny, there are certain items that are considered for the recycling bin each year, but for some reason or another they never quite make it in. Such is true with my Wright Houses 1997 datebook. Holy Moly. That thing is now 13 years old! I tried to turn it into a birthday calendar book so I’d have an excuse to keep it, but there are about four birthdays in there, and besides, that’s what Facebook is for.

So, after already pulling it from the recycling bin AGAIN last week (What if I want to cut out the pictures for my inspiration board? (O.K., then just do it!). What if I make cards out of the pictures (um, Becky, you never send cards anymore, and besides, you have about 200 you can use before you even get to your Wright Houses sloppy glued together 3rd grade postcards. There will be no craft to your tribute to Arts and Crafts). It’s time. I can let go because I have scanned a few favorite images from the photographs to share with you on Inspiration Monday. It’s the first time I’ve been organized enough to have an Inspiration Monday since 2009. Can you imagine how long it would take the Hoarders crew to get my house cleaned out? Viewers at home would say things like “Oh, did you see the crazy cat lady one?” “No man, that’s nothing, what about the crazy girl who had to scan everything before she put it in the dumpster and blog about it?!”

Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio 1889-1909

William H. Winslow House 1893

Dana Thomas House 1902

Meyer May House 1908

Fallingwater 1935

Talieson III 1948

We told you about the Blu Dot Real Good Experiment awhile back, and now there is video. Check it out!

Blu Dot Real Good Experiment from Real Good Chair on Vimeo.

I should have known I’d come upon another wonderful Panton Chair shot at Living etc.:

image via Living etc.

P.S. The architect on this project was Steven Whiting

I’m giving flickr a rest today because frankly, I can’t seem to stop surfing Living etc. It’s been to long since my last visit over there. People keep using Panton chairs in such great ways. My new favorite is this rhapsody in blue over at Living etc. This is a modern cottage in Melbourne Australia and this space rocks. Love the crazy nest/beaver habitat of a chandelier. Love the use of the navy chairs. Love the light ceiling abutting that dark wall & matching cabinets. Love the floor, love the table, love the contrast of the modern, curvy plastic chairs with the slightly rough hewn, blocky table. What the hell is that flower arrangement? I must love it as well, as this all just works.

To pick up some Panton chairs of your own, click here. They are $260 each.

image via Living etc. Are there many magazine sites with better galleries than Living etc.? My only wish is that the images were larger, but that’s a very minor quibble. I love the quality of all of their picks, and the site architecture is great. Let’s hope the shelter mag blight does not reach them.

O.K., so these table legs from Home Depot are not all that sexy. However, ever since I admired Priscilla Locke’s studio a few weeks ago I have had them on the brain:

from The Locker

My cryptic notes on this picture source say “colombe steven via destoinsp” This means I swiped it from Desire to Inspire, but I’m not sure about the rest. Let me know if you can help me clarify!

My notes here:francesca harris sunset WS. I think I’ve decoded it – photographer name, magazine (Sunset) and WS means “Work Space”!

From Living etc.

Notes here: “cordelia de castellane ws hg” House & Garden?

from Natural Curiosities

from Living etc.

from Nate Berkus

Here are a few cuter cheap versions if you want to try the look out yourself. The yellow one is from Home Depot, and the silver ones are from Lowe’s.

Blu Dot always catches my attention by doing something creative. Starting on Wednesday, they will begin The Real Good Chair Experiment, tracking Real Good Chairs on a journey through N.Y.C. You will be able to follow the chairs in real time here.

We are totally digging the designs over at dylan gold this week. Everything they make forces you to think “Hmmph, check out that little twist” or “Ha! That’s clever!” or “Why didn’t I think of that?” However, the piece that gives us the environmentally friendly happy glow is the one that reuses waste pieces of wood and puts them together into a beautiful piece of furniture. The Wasted #1 and Wasted #2 coffee tables are modern and clean, yet they pulled together from a patchwork of scraps, which is very apparent. It’s a great dichotomy. I also like the idea that each one they make will be dictated by which pieces they collect, and thus will be unique. There’s nothing like having a piece of furniture that no one else will ever have.

Wasted #2

Wasted #2

Wasted #1

Wasted #1

What makes it green? Materials may vary, but those shown are Europly, Marine ply, exotic and domestic hardwoods – scrap pieces that would otherwise have wound up in a landfill.
It is coated in water-based polyurethane.

For more information on where to buy and to see the entire collection, click here.

Ten Uncomfortable Pieces of Furniture (via Styleture)

Love playing with color and looking for something to do? Check out the Pantone Fall Fashion Color Combos at Design Evolution. I think this is a really great idea – grab a few colors and throw a room together. Michelle is posting the best ones. It’s funny, a year or two ago the colors Pantone chose were AWFUL, but I think they are fantastic this year!

Check it out! It’s jefdesigns on Cougartown (that show is funny by the way – it’s by the same dude who did Scrubs, Courtney Cox has some great comedic timing, the other actors are hilarious and best of all, there is no laugh track):

(check out jefdesigns here. They are even ON SALE!).

Mystery Link: From whom did I swipe this image? For some idiotic reason I thought I would remember. The image says “thefind5″. Please tell me in the comments if you recognize it!:

From return to bohemia: Does this count as performance art? Liz Rywelski gets a new outfit, styling, and Olin Mills portrait for whatever story she comes up with that day. My personal favorite is “PARENTS GIFT FOR THE HOLIDAYS; MOM LIKES JEWELRY, DAD LIKES HUNTING.”

• image 1 by Helmut Palla via Styleture via Women’s Day.
• image 2 via Design Evolution
• images 3 & 4 from jefdesigns
• image 5 via ??? PLEASE HELP!
• image 6 by Liz Rywelski (and Olin Mills) via return to bohemia