alberto seveso

i came across this by alberto seveso on .v:



dreamlike and stunning.

renegade craft fair

the renegade craft fair is this weekend in sf.

i can't wait to see what ali of designalicious brings... she makes such beautiful jewelry:



i am also looking forward to seeing sara paloma's pottery in person:



and so much more. go check it out if you can!

funky light

this pendant light fixture rocks! from hive modern.

another funky lighting idea calling out to me loud and clear right now (way cheaper too) is to get 2-3 of these from ikea and hang them at different heights...

the camaraderie of the peloton

my friend sarah is competing in the Tour de France Knit Along. i love her attitude (and way with words): "My hope is that the camaraderie of the peloton will help me to speed quickly through another knitted object."

these are pretty awesome knitted objects. i have a cool brown knitted cap from sarah and have seen some pretty sweet other creations. to wit: antonio the fish.

me and you

tomorrow is our anniversary and this card from linda and harriet says it all...

happy anniversary to my other half ;)

thanks to joanna at a cup of jo for the find!

really great ... door sets

didn't know what a door set was until yesterday, but now i do. isn't the above rad? it's from Rocky Mountain Hardware.

cooling off

it is hot here, really really hot! we're thinking of attaching shade sails to the side of our house and in the garden to cool everything off...

Image courtesy of Apartment Therapy

just pretty

suzani boxes from jayson home & garden.

babies on the brain (part 2 of ?)

more and more new babies on the way! above: a beautiful baby rattle from canoe in portland.

chairloom

via the wonderful bloesem, i discovered chairloom - a PA company doing some very cool things with virginia johnson fabric (which i adore) and vintage chairs.






i always love a contrast between old and new and a bright virginia johnson fabric will make me happy anytime - so i am really a fan!

Image courtesy of Chairloom

floors floors floors

floors are on my mind these days. secretly i want to ebonize my floors ala the marc jacobs store in nyc...





... and then paint all the walls Super White and fill the house with colorful modern art (this is what I read Michael Govan the director of LACMA and his wife Katherine Ross did in their LA house). while i luuuuv that look (the light goes literally skittering across the black floor and the art provides all the color and interest), i realize it's not so easy to live in a modern art museum. plus i actually have stuff (that needs hiding places) and oh - no budget for all the super edgy modern art.

so our house will take a somewhat different direction - someday (right now i just need to get the floors done and move into the thing and then i will be a happy camper...)


anyhow, thinking about floors reminded me of this painting the Floor Scrapers by Gustave Caillebotte:

you can see how beautiful the light is as it skims across the floors... just exactly what you want hardwood floors to do in/for a house...

miranda's apt

i am dying to see sex & the city and these photos of miranda's apt from the set (via casa sugar) caught my attention. why do i think my new house is going to be as jumbled? i don't even have kids - just too much random stuff which i am getting newly and suddenly reacquainted with as i try to cajole and cram and stuff it into boxes...



at any rate, her jumbly-ness looks like well loved jumbly-ness (though based on the previews i worry that all is not well in the miranda-steve hhold)...

blurb - i like it!

i just came across this fun website called blurb - where you can create a book (very nice looking a la the above) from your blog, blog photos, flickr photos, whatever, you name it - and then even sell it!

i have been a lame blogger recently! here's my excuse - i'm moving. moving... is a big (but worth it) pain. we're moving into a new house and there is an endless (endless!) stream of design possibilities to contemplate.

i've also finished a letterpress project that i want to show a bit of - but i need to ask permission first. hopefully soon!

capsule is coming!

this weekend, capsule sf returns to hayes valley. i truly loved this design festival last spring. i met so many really talented and friendly designers and printers and i am bummed to miss it this year (but happy to heading to be heading to nyc!).


Graphic design and rendering above by Jenna Sunde

if you are reading and needing a design fix this weekend, head over to hayes valley on sunday... and have fun!

25 under 25

kathryn parker almanas is featured in the new book, 25 Under 25: Up-and-Coming American Photographers, Volume 2. i wrote about her here and can't wait to see which image(s) made it into the book.

there is an exhibition related to the book too on May 29–June 28, 2008 at the Gulf and Western Gallery at the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU 721 Broadway, New York, New York. and an opening reception on 5/29 from 6–8 p.m. wish i wasn't leaving nyc on 5/27!

a good eye

no, make that a great one. ana, who writes the super fun blog stylings and so on and so forth, has started a photo monday post - in which she posts (her) latest photo shots such as this one:



i have the good fortune to work with ana and she told me she takes these with her new nikon ds. they are....



... almost heartbreaking in their beauty.

ana also writes AWESOME fashion posts featuring the fabulous, the fierce, and (sometimes for laughs) the fugly best clothes off the latest runway shows. definitely check her blog out!

here's a stunner

i just saw this on apartment therapy. so gorgeous! (i also wouldn't mind being at that beach peeking out of the left corner of the frame right now...)

greek genius

here's ashley again...



modeling the vintage red spanish shirt she uncovered at new bohemia in austin. during our trip, she, who is oh-so-in-the-know about all things greek, also got me hooked on korres.

do you know korres?





i think it is time you did.

korres make (truly, really) all natural skin and hair products. i've been doing a lot of reseach on product ingredients recently (here's a good resource) and you'd be shocked at what lurks in the ostensibly harmless (normal baby shampoo!) and even heavily promoted "natural/organic" products (don't get me started ...).

but korres ... now here's a company that knows how to put a pretty (in the most holistic sense) product in a very pretty package.

Image courtesy of Sephora

a wrong turn or two

my husband and i set out for kauai last week but due to a couple metaphorical travel wrong turns ended up in palm springs. i've been before, but never when it was just this hot and just this perfect weather. and we are here at the parker palm springs which (designed by Jonathan Adler) is quirky and cheeky and just-the-right size (not a huge lumbering resort place) hotel. it is also stunning:




at night, these lanterns (which from a distance seem like regular chinese laterns seem, from up close, to be made of mother of pearl) light up all over the place:




also, you may have seen this before but check out the entrance:



a most excellent selective use of the color orange. it is pretty clear where you are supposed to go in ;)

the many good sides of ... wine

i just love this table, so gorgeous and so... well, good! cliff spencer makes it from reclaimed wine stained oak staves (from wineries). all the better for the stains i think!



Via Inhabitat