Showing posts with label loving. Show all posts
Showing posts with label loving. Show all posts

11.15.2015

The Chloe Showroom is My Kindred Spirit And Other Random Lovely Bits

Chloé showroom via Porter Magazine's instagram


I've been a (very) bad blogger of late. So bad, in fact, that I've actually pondered stepping away from this space in a more formal way for a while. But every time I'm ready to pull the trigger, farewell post composed in my mind, I chicken out. Blog, I just can't quit you. Sure I'm unreliable and half-assed, but I'm still here. And that's what I'm going with for now...

So no excuses, no long-winded laments about the things that have kept me from this space... Instead let's just go with some lovely things, shall we?

First there's the fun fact that the top of my television cabinet in the den is looking an awful lot like a corner of the Chloé showroom. Oh groovy, wonky, drippy pottery. My love for you knows no bounds.


I'm also smitten with Appointed's canvas notebooks. In fact, Suann's just killed it with the entire Appointed enterprise. She's making the Chicest. Work. Supplies. Ever. The whole thing is just total and complete perfection.



Another obsession: the shoulder baring frocks that went down the runway at Litkovskaya Tbilisi and  Nino Babukhadia. I somehow feel like this is an age-appropriate, smart girl way to do sexy, yes?


And while we're talking perfection, there's the matter of this bedroom situation at Swedish hotel Ett Hem via the genius Ilse Crawford. (Really the entire hotel is just crazy gorgeous.)


And because I'm all about coming full circle, how about we close out this bad boy where we started with some pottery action. Feeling like one of these Clam Lab beauties needs to join the television cabinet line up. Just sayin'.

9.06.2015

Perfed Part Two

A perforated Jenni Kayne dress that, while out of my wheelhouse, is immensely lovely nonetheless...


I spent the better part of the day at the mall overseeing Audrey and her posse as they embarked on some birthday scavenger hunt action. In between recording five tweens serenading a Starbucks barista (and other mildly embarrassing acts) and feeling super old, I was stealthily window shopping with my friend Christine.

Thankfully, Christine is not only one of my dearest friends but also the mom of one of Audrey's dearest friends (lucky break, yes?). She also happens to be one of the most. stylish. women. I. know. Full stop. So, no matter how  much I don't like the mall (and, friends, I really do not like the mall... see: old), somehow going there with Christine is wholly enjoyable enterprise. It also didn't hurt that I downed a bloody mary over lunch.

During said window shopping I found myself (yet again) ogling all things perfed. A giant black suede Pedro Garcia perforated bag and a buttery pierced suede bomber jacket were the two standouts. I'm still thinking about them hours later, so I thought why not dive all the way in and pull together a little perf wish list. Hey, I'm nothing if not committed...

Herewith seven object of my perforated affection:


1. Kelly Wearstler's gold perforated cuff goodness


2. Big oval perfed tights courtesy of Proenza Schouler via Moda Operandi 




3. Pine + Boon's perfect perfed convertible pouches via Vee Caravan. Christine was carrying the tan one today, and I'm fairly confident that it was what kicked off the day's perforated preoccupation.


4. Arizona Muse's perfed neckline photographed by Paolo Roversi for Piece d’Anarchive SS13


5. Madame Wearstler's perforated studs (I think it's safe to say that Kelly seems to dig the perf as much as I do).


6. The aforementioned Pedro Garcia perforated suede tote... This was even more stellar in person friends. It is officially on my wish list.


7. And last but not least, that perfed bomber jacket... all members only wit a buttery pierced suede twist via Anthro... Would be so cute over a black pencil skirt and a white men's T, yes?

7.28.2015

Loving: All Stitched Up Edition

A mishap involving some plant watering, a slippery patio, and a serious lack of grace landed me at the emergency room Sunday afternoon getting three stitches in my shin. Good times.

Surprisingly, in addition to the pain (actually not that bad) and the humiliation (worse than the pain), I felt a bit of the bad assery, as I've gone four decades without a single stitch, and now I feel like I have an official battle wound. Of course my battle is aiding wilting plants trying to survive the punishing Texas heat, but it's a battle nonetheless...

So in honor of my stitches I'm going to love on some knots again (this is becoming a bit of a trend for me -- the knots, not the stitches...hopefully -- witness here and here).

Let's start with Liz Robb's insanely lovely fiber art above (via Remodelista). Her instagram has become one of my faves. Just full of goodness...


Then there's the matter of Electric Feather's insanely chic knotty Infinite Halter Top.


And my beautiful and talented friend Amy Nordstrom's Lattice Cuff. I wear that bad boy nearly every. single. day.


Also a bit enamored of Callahan's lovely crochet dresses...


and a still life of sculptural knotted accessories, both via Lisa Says Gah (a favorite new online shop and blog)...Obsessed. Full stop.


And last but not least, my go-to summer weekend tote in all it's rope-tastic, macrame goodness...

7.21.2015

Foodie Perfection





My obsession with everything happening in Bon Appétit continues... Adam Rapport is still just killing it in every way. I'm especially smitten with the spread on L’Arpège chef Alain Passard in the July issue. The photos by Michael Graydon + Nikole Herriot, the art direction, all of it. Total perfection. Full stop.

Well played BA.

6.25.2015

Loving...

Adam Silverman's drool-worthy custom vases for Chateau Marmont...



Summer dress perfection from Horses Atelier (but really, everything they do is perfection).


Jenni Kayne's book stack goodness (and that little smattering of pottery isn't half bad either).


Brook Morgan's gorgeous Bent Not Broken at Nomad Collective.


OPENHOUSE magazine via You Have Been Here Sometime. A magazine exploring the intersection of design, art, and food and the spaces where the design/art/food action gets created by interesting, inspiring people... Ummm, yes please.

6.11.2015

Lise Silva (i.e. the maker of our current obsession)

We have a tendency to fall into group obsessions at the studio. Recent objects of our collective fixation have included Topo Chico,  staghorn ferns, Raquel Allegra, the Evan with chicken at Taco Joint, and Le Labo Santal 33 (we're all about the high/low).

Of late, Lise Silva's knotted necklaces have joined the list.

It started with that ivory "vibration knot" action above. I almost bought it at Christine's pop up shop a few weeks ago, but in a rare moment of responsibility and frugality, I decided to abstain from purchasing. Sam showed up at the same pop up a couple of hours later and snapped it up. Catie also coveted the "vibration knot" but ended up ordering the "entrance knot" online.  She and Sam eventually traded necklaces and currently have them in heavy rotation. Watching the two of them sport their Silva's has made me totally regret my initial decision. (Who am I kidding... I'm jealous every time I see one of them donning that groovy fiber goodness.)

I may have just purchased my own Silva.

Photos forthcoming.




Lise Silva's Double Coin Knot Blue Moon and Trio of Double Coin Knots at Vee Caravan.

6.08.2015

Pink(ish)


image via style.com

Narcisco Rodriguez Resort


ebay (And sadly, no longer available)...


photo by Brittany Ambridge via Domino Magazine

Georgia O'Keefe's house... (A visit is officially on my bucket list.)


4.01.2015

Loving...

Victoria Beckham's genius push-pull moment -- i.e. those side cut outs taking this otherwise totally prim mid-calf black dress into sexy town. Well played Mrs. Beckham. Well played. 


Interior design studio and atelier Ferrer's impeccable, well, everything...


The perfect little stool at Serena & Lily (I checked this bad boy out at the Serena & Lily design store whilst on our San Francisco adventure, and it's even better in person.)


Some seriously beautiful (and theoretically useful) oil dispensing action from Garde. (I had to refrain from making a loving list entirely composed of items from Garde. It's just that good friends. Thanks Sam.)


Heath's Boiler Room series and Carla Fernández's beautiful hand-crafted pieces...


Ani Kasten's ceramic gorgeousness. Ceramic dreams. Full stop.

2.17.2015

Loving...


Leigh Patterson and Alexa Hotz's gorgeous marble studies in A Piece Apart's pre-spring magazine but especially the antidote to design ennui. Arrange and rearrange friends (and then rearrange that action again... and again).



Photography by Lachlan Bailey

Alastair McKimm's perfect styling and the beautiful art direction in the WSJ magazine's Spring fashion shoot.



Tiro Tiro's awsome Cercis necklace...



Jens Preusse

Matthias Kaiser's earthy, wonky, surrealistic, color saturated, completely and totally badass ceramics. (Via T Magazine). In a sea of earnest ceramics, Kaiser has managed to pull off something that feels totally and completely unique.



And in one more from the WSJ Magazine, 90-year-old art world darling Etel Adnan's killer work. We should be idolizing more 90-year-olds. Youth is boring.