I’ve been noticing swings in interiors rather a lot over the last year. The plexiglass ones have a retro ’60s look and the rattan harken back to the ’70s. I prefer the cleaner, more architectural designs. I sprinkled in a few summery outdoor ones too. Brian Andriola
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July 26, 2010
Design Diary: Tommy Hilfiger’s NYC Apartment
Harper’s Bazaar shot Tommy Hilfiger, his wife Dee and baby Sebastian at the family’s newly re-furbished duplex at The Plaza. They purchased it in 2008, and tried to sell it last year – for a mere $50 million – but now seem thrilled with the space, which the designer describes as”old-world atmosphere complementing the old-world [...]
July 25, 2010
ARTmonday: Louise Bourgeois
Louise Bourgeois French-American artist Louise Bourgeois died on May 31st at age 98. Her work is haunting, eerily beautiful, brave, fragile, fierce, sexually explicit and autobiographical. Arch of Hysteria, 1993 – polished bronze Cell (Glass, spheres and hands) 1990-1993 Janis Fleuri, 1968 – bronze Untitled, Guggenheim, 2004. Untitled, 1996 [...]
July 21, 2010
Design Diary: Patricia McDonagh for This Old House
Earlier this year interior designer Tricia McDonagh emailed me about a project she had been working on with “This Old House.” To help celebrate its 30th anniversary season, they wanted to help the community where it got its start. The show’s crew worked alongside affordable housing nonprofit Nuestra Comunidad to to renovate a vacant, foreclosed [...]
July 19, 2010
Montage: Afghans
Designers elevated granny chic on spring and fall runways with afghans fashioned as um, fashion. Not sure anyone would actually wear a crochet square getup (other than Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, who’ve been spotted with granny square scarves), but the look is taking hold in decors for the under 60 set. A lot of these [...]
July 18, 2010
ARTmonday: MOMA In A Minute
Artwork on display at MOMA on April 10, 2010. Picasso, Pollack, Matisse, Mondrian, Monet, Modigliani, Braque, Rauschenberg, Dubuffet, Jasper Johns, Franz Kline, Gaugin, Cezanne, Chagall, Klee, Magritte, Dali, Rothko, Warhol, Lichtenstein, Stella, Kahlo, Rousseau, Wyeth, Klimt . . . Delectable.
July 16, 2010
Design Diary: John Derian’s Provincetown House
Photos of John Derian‘s Provincetown cottage were published by Vogue Living a while back, as well as Martha Stewart Living. This week the Boston Globe featured it too. I still haven’t been into his shop, which is right behind the house, but I’ll try to go this weekend and take some photos. I’m off to [...]
July 11, 2010
ARTmonday: Hadley Holliday
Photo: Style Section L.A. This morning, while reading through clips from L.A. style writers, I came across a post about Los Angeles artist Hadley Holliday by Sierra Feldner-Shaw on Style Section L.A., a site I’ve now bookmarked. I was immediately taken by Holliday’s work, especially the ones that give off a sort of really loose [...]
June 28, 2010
ARTmonday: Puntoos
Looking at various fashion illustration sites tonight I found myself at Traffic Creative Management, where I came across a graphic illustrator from Valencia, Spain (I think, his site’s in Spanish) called Puntoos.
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