Creepy interiors are a great source of inspiration for elegant, grown up Halloween decorations. This is the home of painter Sean Scherer featured on re-nest. Although these examples are a part of his regular decor, I think they’re also great grown up ways to let the spirit of the creepy into your home this October. Anatomical sculptures and pictures breathe something of the medieval and dungeon-like.[gallery link="file" columns="2"]
You can see the full tour here
On the heels of finding those vintage inspired glass storage bowls on Fishseddy earlier this week, here is some more glassware inspiration. If you’re into fabric design, silk-screen printing, or just making doodles on a napkin, check out the vintage Pyrex motifs on these storage bowls from the Pyrex museum.
The girls from Shelterrific visited [...]
Etsy has some great, whimsical tea towels. Here are some of my favorite picks. Browse and you might find some very affordable favorites. Etsy is always a good gauge for trendy motifs. I have been noticing beach cruisers on dinnerware and now towels. I hope to do some silkscreen printing one [...]
I attended the Trina Turk for Schumacher collection launch party on Wednesday. It took place in her beautiful home in Los Feliz. Her collection consists of some wonderful prints. This photo is compliments of photographer Mike Gardner who was photographing the event and collection for C magazine. Trina’s prints are great for outdoor [...]
Are you familiar with pop-up greeting card books? There are some really impressive things one can do by making precise incisions on paper. Thinking about the concept of cutting and thus creating negative space got me contemplating how that can translate into furniture, accessories or lighting. Just in time I came [...]
Facets are here. I love them. Check out the Chisel Vase at CB2. Now on sale for $29.95. Here are some faceted creations highlighted in California Home & Design magazine.
The gorgeous West Elm lamp, the Dominique Jacob and Brendan MacFarlane No End Sofa. I particularly love the little dessert platter [...]
California Home & Design magazine featured this beautiful home as the 2009 pick for the CH+D Award for Residential Interior Design.
The owner, Charles De Lisle, is a former welder and he designed and made this branch light out of found brass bars. I love that it is suspended by a chunky, natural rope. [...]
The silhouettes motif pops up in various places and a variety of home objects these days. Jessica Rust Designs creates custom silhouette plates and PrettyFaces makes custom pictures in oval backgrounds available on Etsy. A part of me is beginning to OD on silhouettes, but another part is still drawn to the romance of them.
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What once was a Chinese lantern is now a modern lantern. I shared this DIY creation with Shelterrific after an ongoing discussion about lamp making. You can see the original post and an image of the lamp in its natural habitat here.
Someone mentioned that it reminded them of the Beijing National Stadium designed by Herzog & de Meuron design firm, which is interesting given that it was once a Chinese lantern. Hmm…
It reminds me of this work of Testa and Weiser featured in the Skin and Bones exibit at MOCA. Check out this great dress from the same exhibit. Another parallel? I’m lovin it. These ziggy wine rack and glacier runner from CB2 have a similar motif of intersecting diagonal lines. I think we are onto a motif trend here.
With a myriad of prints in textiles to get excited about, I keep coming back to these sheets from West Elm. With a kitschy seventies feel to the pencil drawings of the great outdoors, these sheets have me lusting. Reminiscent of the outdoor prints on mirror tiles in the seventies, I am a [...]
