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Monday, February 28, 2011
Blue Monday
Even though red seems to be grabbing all the headlines lately, I've been noticing a lot of blue on and off the runway and in the home. I absolutely love Todd Alexander Romano's new blue apartment that was featured in the February issue of Architectural Digest with its pops of citron, chartreuse and red. I also noticed these same color combinations in many fashion photos from New York, London and Milan. Makes me want to buy something blue today!
Photos by Thomas Loof for AD, Tommy Ton, The Sartorialist, Hanneli Mustaparta and Mr. Newton
Shabby Apple Giveaway!
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It's Monday, and you know what that means! Today's giveaway is hosted by Shabby Apple, a wonderful place to shop for clothing, jewelry and accessories! One lucky reader will win this Ultra comfortable and Ultra Girly dress - Le Coeur. It lies somewhere right in between "favorite t-shirt"and "darling cupcake."
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Gorgeous Gucci
In 2009, Gucci moved their headquartes from Florence to Rome. The offices are located in a historic building on Via del Banco di Santo Spirito. The nine story palazzo was commissioned by Giulio Alberini, a wealthy merchant, and erected in 1515 and was designed by Raphael and his student Giulio Romano. Gucci head designer Frida Gianinni told W magazine that she found the "palazzo through a family friend, it had just undergone a historical renovation by architecture firm Studio Gigli. Inside, new bathrooms and lighting fixtures had been added, and the frescoes were painstakingly restored. Outside, the facade had been scoured of all that big-city smog residue." The Ministry of Arts and Culture rules created a few complications for the day to day work at Gucci. Soryboards and sketches that Giannini used to pin on her walls for inspiration have to lean on the floor due to the precious frescoes, “I can’t hang anything, let alone put lights up,” Giannini lamented.
The frescoed ceiling at Gucci.
Frida Giannini in her office. I love the brass standing mirror in the corner!
I don't care for contemporary furniture when it's housed in a sleek interior but I do like the look juxtaposed with mouldings, boiseries and architectural details. I always wonder if this is why Europeans love this type of furniture so much. It always seems to look better in their older buildings.
Frida Giannini was also just interviewed by James Franco for the March 2011 issue of Harper's Bazaar that includes a look into her home in Rome. After watching the Oscars last night, I do not understand his appeal but at least her house is interesting. I especially love the Fernand Leger painting behind them.
The living room was decorated with art-deco pieces.
Frida sits in an Arne Jacobsen Egg Chair in her study.
I love the railings along the stairs.
I love the simplicity of Frida's home. Each piece of furniture becomes a work of art.
The kitchen is sleek and modern while the fur blanket softens the lines in the bedoom below. I know the Gucci office and Frida's home won't appeal to everyone but it really works for interiors in historic buildings in Rome. More than I can say about James Franco at the Oscars.
Photos by Christopher Sturman and Douglas Friedman
UN HOTEL DE LINEAS VANGUARDISTAS
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El hotel Met de Tesalonica, Grecia, se distingue por sus lineas modernas de vanguardia.
Sus espacios interiores bien estudiados y disenados con gusto contemporanea contribuyen a crear un clima de amplitud y espacialidad unicos.
Con toda la tecnologia al servicio del diseno interior y su mobiliario adaptado a los nuevos tiempos pero sin perder la funcionalidad de siempre, se logran potenciar estos espacios para el disfrute y el placer.
El hotel Met de Tesalonica, Grecia, se distingue por sus lineas modernas de vanguardia.
Sus espacios interiores bien estudiados y disenados con gusto contemporanea contribuyen a crear un clima de amplitud y espacialidad unicos.
Con toda la tecnologia al servicio del diseno interior y su mobiliario adaptado a los nuevos tiempos pero sin perder la funcionalidad de siempre, se logran potenciar estos espacios para el disfrute y el placer.
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LAS TRANSPARENCIAS DE CAMPO BAEZA
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El arquitecto espanol Campo Baeza se luce en la Casa Olnick Spanu.
Su gusto y buen manejo por los espacios limitados por planos y transparencias llegan a la expresion mas acabada en esta vivienda.
Las trasparencias de los espacios publicos integran la vivienda de manera unica al paisaje y la espacialidad esta garantizada por el juego de areas delimitadas por planos verticales blancos y los horizontales que acompanan al paisaje.
Una base solida de hormigon constituye la planta baja y es la planta alta la mas desmaterializada.
El arquitecto espanol Campo Baeza se luce en la Casa Olnick Spanu.
Su gusto y buen manejo por los espacios limitados por planos y transparencias llegan a la expresion mas acabada en esta vivienda.
Las trasparencias de los espacios publicos integran la vivienda de manera unica al paisaje y la espacialidad esta garantizada por el juego de areas delimitadas por planos verticales blancos y los horizontales que acompanan al paisaje.
Una base solida de hormigon constituye la planta baja y es la planta alta la mas desmaterializada.
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Monday Inspiration
I want a cool corner just like this... Happy Monday!
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt
photo: pinterest
Remodeled House in Alabama
Good Monday morning to you, dear readers! Sorry about not posting on Saturday and Sunday. We're about to move to Peru and I've been busy packing and weighing the things we are going to take, and selling the ones we can't. I'm glad and sorry to say I've sold every single piece of my lovely furniture. A pity I can't take everything with me.
Anyway, back to blogland now.
This 1915 Federal-style house in the historic Garden District of Montgomery, Alabama was bought and remodeled by Richard Norris and Mark Leslie. They transformed it from formal and rather stuffy into warm and inviting, with an overall masculine style and full of whimsical details.
The Federal-style facade, high on three-quarters of an acre in Montgomery's historic Garden District.
To one side of the foyer, a section of 19th-century Gothic wall paneling and a headless statue of St. Denis.
On the other side of the foyer, moose antlers, a Gothic crystal chandelier, and a rustic 19th-century French grandfather clock.
A chocolate velvet curtain adds drama to the stairs. The wrought-iron jardiniere is from the south of France. "It's such a strange, dark piece," Norris says. "We call it Rosemary's Baby's crib."
In the lounge, a small library with a Landau Devan Sofa and an antique ottoman. Like the foyer, walls and woodwork are painted Martin-Senour's Sealskin.
Upholstered pieces with high, dramatic backs were designed by Bobby McAlpine. Painted screens by artist David Braly have a kind of Gothic-Midwestern motif, including arches and acanthus leaves in a field of abstract cornstalks. Across the bottom the screens read: 'The corn is as high as an elephant's eye and it looks like it's climbing clear up to the sky' — lyrics from the musical Oklahoma! but in Latin. The mirror hanging on the screen is 18th-century French.
The dining area is in the same huge room as the living area.
Over the FiveStar stove is a silver-leaf Napoleon III mirror. The chandelier was fashioned from a pair of antique bronze sconces.
The sink resembling a buffet, has a marble backsplash and bat prints around it. The oval island is a nine-foot-long sheet of marble.
The kitchen's light-filled bay window opens onto a patio and garden.
Richard Norris designed the cottage-size parterre, reminiscent of gardens he had visited in Europe.
Behind the piano is an old sounding board which was originally behind the pulpit in an Episcopal church — it was the baffle that helped bounce the minister's voice toward the congregation
The 1850s Italian marble mantelpiece in the living room came from a Montgomery house torn down in the 1970s to make way for an interstate. Above it is a 20th-century interpretation of Leonardo's St. John the Baptist, in watercolor and pencil on butcher-block paper.
A small bedroom was converted into a dressing room. Two rustic armoires make up for the lack of closet space.
In the bedroom's sitting area, an Eames table and vintage butterfly chairs mix with a rattan sofa, a Pottery Barn rug, and a demilune console designed by Norris.
The walls in the master bedroom are Martin-Senour's Silver Green. The six feet tall headboard is an 18th-century stall divider from a horse barn.
All images and information from here.
Anyway, back to blogland now.
This 1915 Federal-style house in the historic Garden District of Montgomery, Alabama was bought and remodeled by Richard Norris and Mark Leslie. They transformed it from formal and rather stuffy into warm and inviting, with an overall masculine style and full of whimsical details.
The Federal-style facade, high on three-quarters of an acre in Montgomery's historic Garden District.
To one side of the foyer, a section of 19th-century Gothic wall paneling and a headless statue of St. Denis.
On the other side of the foyer, moose antlers, a Gothic crystal chandelier, and a rustic 19th-century French grandfather clock.
A chocolate velvet curtain adds drama to the stairs. The wrought-iron jardiniere is from the south of France. "It's such a strange, dark piece," Norris says. "We call it Rosemary's Baby's crib."
In the lounge, a small library with a Landau Devan Sofa and an antique ottoman. Like the foyer, walls and woodwork are painted Martin-Senour's Sealskin.
Upholstered pieces with high, dramatic backs were designed by Bobby McAlpine. Painted screens by artist David Braly have a kind of Gothic-Midwestern motif, including arches and acanthus leaves in a field of abstract cornstalks. Across the bottom the screens read: 'The corn is as high as an elephant's eye and it looks like it's climbing clear up to the sky' — lyrics from the musical Oklahoma! but in Latin. The mirror hanging on the screen is 18th-century French.
The dining area is in the same huge room as the living area.
Over the FiveStar stove is a silver-leaf Napoleon III mirror. The chandelier was fashioned from a pair of antique bronze sconces.
The sink resembling a buffet, has a marble backsplash and bat prints around it. The oval island is a nine-foot-long sheet of marble.
The kitchen's light-filled bay window opens onto a patio and garden.
Richard Norris designed the cottage-size parterre, reminiscent of gardens he had visited in Europe.
Behind the piano is an old sounding board which was originally behind the pulpit in an Episcopal church — it was the baffle that helped bounce the minister's voice toward the congregation
The 1850s Italian marble mantelpiece in the living room came from a Montgomery house torn down in the 1970s to make way for an interstate. Above it is a 20th-century interpretation of Leonardo's St. John the Baptist, in watercolor and pencil on butcher-block paper.
A small bedroom was converted into a dressing room. Two rustic armoires make up for the lack of closet space.
In the bedroom's sitting area, an Eames table and vintage butterfly chairs mix with a rattan sofa, a Pottery Barn rug, and a demilune console designed by Norris.
The walls in the master bedroom are Martin-Senour's Silver Green. The six feet tall headboard is an 18th-century stall divider from a horse barn.
All images and information from here.
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