January 2012
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December 2011
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Loved Seeing Ron Arad at Design Miami
Ron Arad was Tom Price’s professor: the vision gets passed on. Industry Gallery booth at Design Miami. Loved Tom’s “Meltdown Series.”
November 2011
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The sample sale is a treasure "Trove"!
Taken at Trove
Along any avenue or down any street, NYC...
Taken at Salone May
October 2011
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#Architecture inspires...
Taken at Madison Square Park
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Iconic afternoon...
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Where Modern Architecture Lives Under the Sun
Four Florida Moderns: The Architecture of Alberto Alfonso, René González, Chad Oppenheim & Guy W. Peterson with contributions by Robert McCarter, Charles Gwathmey, Richard Meier, Terence Riley & Warren R. Schwartz. “Modern architecture is alive and well and living in Florida,” begins Robert McCarter’s foreword. If there was any question as to modernism’s longevity and influence on...
Misty drizzle spritzer against the plane window,...
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September 2011
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August 2011
4 posts
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February 2011
3 posts
Passemanterie de Parie
Toma Clark Haines, The Antiques Diva, and Remy Lemoine with his passemanterie in Le Dome in Paris. Loving all this inspiring design after a day at the Marche aux Puces. So many great ideas, so little room in my suitcase!
In Paris with the Antiques Diva
Toma Clark Haines has brought her joie de vivre to Paris and has cooked an amazing 5-course meal in the 2nd arrondissement. I’m just sayin’ this is one of my best nights in the city of light and we’re just getting started!
A Literary Paris
I’m in Paris, as many of you know, spending lots of time in the cafes where some of the greatest writers of all time have people-watched, scribbled into journals and/or edited manuscripts. I’m about to take my writer’s notebook from my purse and make some notes about the magnificent day I’ve had, bopping between Cafe de Flore, Shakespeare & Company, and my current...
January 2011
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Bertoia Mashup
So, doesn’t anyone respect an icon these days? I’m just sayin’! Pile ‘o Side’s at plaza beside Apple Store on Fifth Avenue in New York City. What gives, man?
Moss Gets More Divine...
…all the time. Wall sculpture by Cathy McClure.
December 2010
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Watershed Moment
I’m sitting in the sunlight outside the Hilton Garden Inn in Auburn, Maine. It’s a tad chilly so why stay more than a minute in the frigid air? Because the sound of the waterfall is so powerful I don’t want to leave. The ground is vibrating with it’s force, as if the essence of life’s deep transitory throb cascades down the boulders into eternity here. Where are you...
Now that's a lot of LOVE!
Robert Indiana’s “Love Wall” in the Galerie Gmurzynska booth at Art Basel Miami Beach.
November 2010
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Wonderful Wendell...
Castle at Design Miami in Barry Friedman Ltd’s booth -angel Heart lounger in bleached mahogany.
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Claying With Fire
I visited the SOFA (Sculpture Objects & Functional Art) show in Chicago today and came away with a new appreciation for artists working with ceramics. One of my favorite gallerists was there, Barry Friedman. He said he’s seeing ceramics as a trend, and I did see an incredible variety of pieces created from variations on the material. He had brought Akio Takamori’s stoneware...
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Dig Yourself, Brighton!
I’ve been exploring Brighton, England, the past few days and have had a blast getting to know this terrific seaside town (thanks to Modenus’ Veronika Miller and Tim Bogan, who’ve so kindly hosted me). It’s such an interesting mix of the artful, the commercial and the soulful (with the ocean churning below a moisture-infused sky etched in soft gray, the elemental is...
October 2010
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The Art of Travel
I’m in the British Airways lounge at JFK on my way to the UK to visit two properties in the Dorchester Collection. I’m really impressed with the art collection here. Such a nice Basquiat!
Fabric Fantasia
I’m out and about with mega-talented fabric artist Mary Stipe…look at those colors!
Tapping Into Tuscany
This trip to Italy has been one that has brought me a mind-blowing loss for words. I’ll be putting a more comprehensive post together about my time here at Castel Monastero tomorrow. For now, I give you this tease from the former nunnery that dates back to a bygone time when church bells pealed across the rolling hills of a very different Toscana.
September 2010
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What is Heaven?
I took a tour of CastaDiva this morning with Silvia Ballerini and am wowed by the property. I’m guessing once you see this brief moment of beauty from my terrace and the above image by Paul Clemence, you will be, too! I’ll be writing several comprehensive pieces on the resort as the weeks move along but thought I’d give you a glimpse this evening before a glass of Prosecco calls me away from...
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Johnny Grey on the Post-feminist Kitchen
I’m at Decorex in London for the debut of Johnny Grey’s new furniture line for the kitchen (see earlier posts about his inspirations on Design Commotion and my Examiner page). As I was interviewing him this morning, he said something that I found so remarkable that I decided we just had to get it on video. The talented and soulful designer believes that we have now gone beyond the post-culinary...
Discussing the d'outdoors
I’m leading a design chat at d’Apostrophe in lower Manhattan in a few minutes as part of ASID NY Metro’s design week festivities. We’ve got a great crowd to dish about what’s hot and what’s not when it comes to outdoor furniture. Gotta go!
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How Deluded Can You Be?
Thought I’d lay a little Sax & the City on you today. I trekked with good pals Susan Wilber and Sarah Frazier to the Harvey Theater last night to see Laurie Anderson perform Delusion as part of the Brooklyn Museum of Art’s 2010 Next Wave Festival. “What are the last words you say before you turn to dirt?” Anderson intoned during the hour-and-a-half-long meditation on life and language that...
Imagine University...
With Suzanne Sokolov talking Twitter and blogging with designers at Design/NY 2010.
Imagine University at Design/NY 2010
I’m speaking with design professionals today about thinking global rather than local. What a great group of innovative thinkers!
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Always in Fashion
One of the greatest perks to come from being a design journalist is getting to know the talented photographers who shoot the rooms that end up looking killer-good in magazine spreads. One such gifted shutterbug is Liz Glasgow, who was the eyes behind most of my pieces for Distinction Magazine and a collaborator on a number of shoots I produced for Coastal Living. You might say she’s the...
August 2010
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Swan Song...
Ah, it’s a rainy morning in New York, and though I’d love to be roaming and discovering, deadlines and the drenched weather keep me nestled into my warm, dry digs. So, what’s a writer to do on Writer Wednesday when she’s all hyped up and has nowhere to go? How about a poem inspired by a little incident that happened in Sparta (in Greek Mythology) ions ago and resulted in...
The Little Black Frame
It’s Sax & the City here. As I’ve roamed around The Village this afternoon, a theme emerged and it has me thinking that a little black frame is to an interior what a little black dress is to a wardrobe. Maybe the iconic beauty in these inspired my musings, no?
Where an Oldie is a Goodie
I popped into Olde Good Things today to see what’s in store lately. There’s always something new to see in this shop that sells antiques and “altered antiques.” If you’re a fan of patina, you’ll get a good hit of time-worn lovliness here. They have several locations in Manhattan, two in Los Angeles and a warehouse in Scranton, PA.
Product Peek: John Pomp's Eloquence in Glass... →
Earlier this year, Newton Vineyard debuted a limited edition decanter by glass artist John Pomp. I have seen it in person and it is quite the transparent beauty!