Yesterday’s spring preview was heavenly. The boys were ecstatic to be at the playground; they ran all the way. Newbury Street showed signs of life, with bare-legged beauties toting shopping bags. It’s back to being chilly today, so I thought a sampling of bird-filled rooms could keep us whistling. Photos: Domino, Domino, Louise Body Wallprint, [...]
Entries from February 2009
February 26, 2009
Beauty Break: Upbraided
I know I owe you an Oscar post. Working on it. Meanwhile, thought I’d share a little Oscar coincidence. This afternoon, coming into my apartment, I ran into my neighbor, Nancy C. Nancy is way pregnant, over pregnant really, as in due last week. She looks fab, all skinny with a big basketball belly. But [...]
February 23, 2009
ARTmonday: Shepard Fairey: Supply and Demand
A few weeks ago I went to the press preview for the Shepard Fairey show at the ICA. I normally wouldn’t have gone – street art isn’t my thing. (Big surprise.) But I had an assignment for Lola magazine on the museum, and the timing worked out perfectly. The overall museum experience, as always, was [...]
February 21, 2009
Site Spotlight: Abode7
The other day at jury duty , while I was conscientiously reading last month’s Dwell on prefab housing (I’m doing a piece on an amazing prefab in Maine), to kill time, I studied the little ads in the back of the book. I came upon a cute ad for Abode7. This morning I checked it [...]
February 17, 2009
Get the Look: Indian Inspired Accessories
I’m lured by the look. It’s pretty, easy, exotic. Chances are, besides my thesis of yesteryear (on the oh-so practical topic of the cross-dressing between Krishna and Radha in Rajasthani miniature paintings), you probably won’t find an ethnic accoutrement in my house. (We tend toward the starkly modern these days.) But I really do love [...]
February 16, 2009
ARTmonday: Lee Essex: Postcards From India
As long as I’m on this whole Indian theme, I thought I’d show you a collection of gorgeous paintings by Boston-based artist Lee Essex. (She is represented by Peter Marcelle Contemporary in NYC and Southampton, as well as Parker Gallery, St. Simons Island, GA.) The show, entitled “Postcards from India,” celebrates the rich visual impressions [...]
February 15, 2009
Montage: From Boho to Bollywood
Boho chic may be as passé as Sienna Miller’s latest affair but Hollywood’s love affair with films à la India (c’est toi “Slumdog Millionaire”) [see this recent WSJ article for more Hollywood/Bollwyood collabs], I’m thinking designers will be tempted by the colors, forms, iconography, and overall free-spiritedness of South Asia culture and style. Here are [...]
February 14, 2009
Shopping: 1st Dibs’ Saturday Sale
1st Dibs, the exquisite, international online antique marketplace, has a sale each Saturday, in the tradition of weekend yard and barn sales, but much more upscale. I breezed through 75 pages of items to come up with these keepers, assuming you’ve got plenty of cash Cloud Sofa and Ottoman by Isamu Noguchi, c. 1985 $6,500, [...]
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