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Saturday Say It: Love Is the New Black

StyleCarrot — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:00:38 +0000

via pinterest

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Montage: 34 Rooms with Love

StyleCarrot — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:02:48 +0000

The web has been littered with hearts and such since the beginning of the month. I was going to hold this post until next week, but I figured I’d join the party early. These rooms all spell love, literally. Well, there’s one amour.

Twine | photographer Armelle Habib

achitects Elding Oscarson | Liz Caan

via Mak & Jill | Cath Kitson in Lonny

photographer Marjon Hoogervorst | photographer Lisa Cohen

Norske Interiorblogger

via The Aestate | Norske Interiorblogger

Diane Bergeron | unidentified

via The Aestate | stylist Selina Lake

unidentified | Flickr – Dottie Angel

photographer Graham Atkins-Hughes
stylist Heather Nette King photographed by Armelle Habib

via Apartment Therapy

Flickr – royaltygirl

via Flickr – Laura Smera

Flickr – Iro {ivy style33}

via Funky Bear Decor

via Pinterest

architect William T. Georgis

via Inspace Locations

Robyn Karp

photographer Douglas Friedman

Found Associates

Anna Beth Chao

via Design Public

via Where the Sidewalk Begins

stylist Heather Nette King

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Design Diary: The Saguaro Palm Springs

StyleCarrot — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:02:06 +0000

The Saguaro Palm Springs, brought to you by the developers of the Ace Hotel, opened last week, just in time for Modernism Week and well in time for those heading out for April music festival Coachella.

Designed by NYC-based Peter Stamberg & Paul Aferiat of Stamberg Aferiat Architecture, the hotel is a re-vamped a three-story Holiday Inn from 1977, re-imagined in serious Technicolor. The color palette reflects the vibrancy of the Southwest, in hues derived from 14 indigenous flowers of the Mojave Desert.

Guest rooms boast multicolored striped bedding, orange furniture, a bubble gum pink accent wall, and royal purple carpeting. A wood table and chairs and black and white images by Palm Springs photographer Jim Cornett ground the rooms with a bit of natural realism.

There are 245 rooms, a second floor public space with a wild red Bird-of-Paradise wallpaper on the ceiling, an expansive pool in a lush courtyard complete with a cabana pool bar, a spa, and two restaurants by Iron Chef Jose Garces, one with a tequila bar, the other with a wine bar.

The Saguro Palm Springs, 1800 East Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs, California.

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Montage: 32 Rooms with Bar Carts and Bars

StyleCarrot — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:02:37 +0000

Somebody I know is having a birthday soon, and I know he’d really like to set up a bar. Here’s some inspiration. If he’s lucky, I may just get my act together and start the process. I know the perfect spot for it.

via Apartment Therapy

M. Design

Miles Redd

Commune Design

Architect Diego Revollo

Ron Marvin Design on Lonny

Ron Marvin Design

Grant K. Gibson

via {this is glamourous}

Rue Magazine | Society Social

via The Glitter Guide | via My Cup of Te

Society Social

Lonny

Joe Nye

via Pinterest

Photographer Magdalena Bjornsdotter | via Walking Around Where the Sidewalk Begins

via My Cup of Te | Lonny

via Everything Fabulous | via The Aestate

Kelly Wearstler

via Design Attractor

The Novogratz

Aerin Lauder’s NYC apartment by Jacques Grange

via Just a Modern Guy

via Belle Vivir

Domino

unidentified

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Design Diary: Delphine and Reed Krakoff’s Home

StyleCarrot — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:02:40 +0000

These photos of the New York City home of Delphine and Reed Krakoff have been around for a while, but good design doesn’t fade. I still love the rooms. I’m not sure where their former place was, but for years I’ve saved a design tear of her child’s bedroom. (I’ll include the photo at the end of the post.) [In case you're not fashion-y, Reed Krakoff is the President, Executive Creative Director of Coach, and he also has his own extraordinarily sky high-priced label.]

Working with architect Mark Ferguson of Ferguson & Shamamian , in 2008, the couple overhauled a seven-floor townhouse that had been subdivided into 12 separate apartments. On the website for Delphine’s interior design business, Pamplemousse Design, she refers to it as “a mansion on the Upper East Side.” I also included a few rooms with similar pieces she designed for clients with a triplex on the Upper West Side.

In the living room, Alexander Calder’s 1971 mobile Two Black Discs and Six Othersfloats above a Jean Ary sculpture, André Dubreuil candelabras, and a Guy de Rougemont coffee table.

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A corner of the airy living room features a screen by Serge Roche.

An alternate view.

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The cubey painting is Black and White VII by Al Held in front of which is Marc Newson’s 1986 Lockheed Lounge chaise. She seems to have also secured a similar Al Held painting for a client.

Delphine designed this living room in an Upper West Side triplex, complete with Al Held painting similar to her own. I love that sculpture on the coffee table too.

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The upstairs sitting room features a mirrored mantel by Serge Roche, circa 1930, which he made for his own private residence. The pillows are Emilio Pucci.

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The master bedroom. The Art Deco vanity is by Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann and the 1920s-era bed by Jean-Michel Frank. The table is by Marc Newson. Claude Lalanne’s La Pomme Boucheapples are on the mantel.

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In the sitting room, the walls are decorated with Allan McCollum’s abstract installation Plaster Surrogates. Joris Laarman’s silver Bone chair sits in the foreground.

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Delphine leans against a 1930s Serge Roche table. In the background is Frank Stella’s 1974 painting Concentric Squares. The sconces are by Maria Pergay.

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From another angle. Great staircase; let’s see more of it . . .

One could almost call this nook cozy. Almost. If not for the mirrors, it could also seem like it was an area for storing overflow furnishings.

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The library, with a Tiffany lamp over a long table and a Marc Newson chair in the corner, is transformed into a 16-person dining room for dinner parties.

Another shot of the library, sans Delphine.

She created a library dining room for her Upper West Side triplex clients too. I’ve always loved bookshelves surrounding a dining table.

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An eat-in-kitchen with an oh-la-la dining table setup.

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The master bathroom? Looks like the powder room at a fancy department store. Odd.

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Delphine and Reed’s daughter’s room, from several years ago (I’ve forgotten which publication). I still love the curvy sconce over the bed (so sophisticated for a little girl, but pretty), the dual colored ottomans, and the Saarinen side table.

She hung a similar sconce above the Upper West Side client’s bed.

Photos 1, 2, 4, 6, 7 , 8, 9, 13 by Douglas Friedman for Harper’s Bazaar

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34 Buddhas in Decor

StyleCarrot — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:02:17 +0000

I still haven’t tried yoga. Too peaceful. I did however just sign up for a modern dance class at Boston University. The teacher is amazing, and I’m trying my best to blend with the thirty plus twenty-year-old girls (and boy). Anyway, yoga and prancing aside, I do appreciate the serenity of a Buddha. When I lived in NYC, the Buddha room at the Met Museum was one of my favorite places for decompressing. Buddha heads (ad sometimes bodies) are popular adornments in homes in search of zen.

Photographer Francis Smith

Antonio Martins

Bolig Magasinet

Christopher Noto in Architectural Digest

via Desire to Inspire

Photographer Joe Schmelzer

unidentified | Photographer Kelly Ishikawa

Kelly Behun

David Kaplan | Cobbold Du Pont

via Desire to Inspire

Coburn Architecture

via Decoration Empire

Photographer Julien Oppenheim | Domino

via Design Attractor | via Desire to Inspire

Madeleine Weinrib in Elle Decor | Thad Hayes

Antonio Martins

Skona Hem | White Webb

Dovecote boutique in Westport, CT

unidentified

Skona Hem

Donna Karan

via Desire to Inspire

Fawn Galli | Walter Studio

Liz Levin

Photographer Ellen McDermott | Ken Fulk

Piper Perabo’s house by Garance Dore

Go Shopping: Get the Look: Buddhas

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Design Diary: Vera Wang’s Beverly Hills Home

StyleCarrot — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:02:05 +0000

Vera Wang recently purchased a modernist dream of a home in Beverly Hills. This month’s Harper’s Bazaar got the scoop on the Steve Hermann designed space. (He’s also the previous owner, and sold the house to Wang.) I found additional shots of the house on his site, though some of these circulated this summer when the Wall Street Journal reported that Wang purchased the house for about $10 million.

This is the entryway. Wang’s wearing a Rick Owens vest and skirt and her own Ann Demeulemeester boots. The bag is Hermes, the watch Rolex.

The back of the house, complete with covered patio and pool.

Can you believe Wang is 62-years-old? Insane. She says in the article she’s not the type to wear heels with her swimsuit. But when you’re posing for a fashion mag, you kinda have to. The swimsuit is Eres and the bustier over top is Alexander Wang. The heels are Manolo Blahnik, of course.

I didn’t even realize until I read the caption that this is the kitchen. Talk about sleek. Wang’s dress is Azzedine Alaia and the Mary Janes are Giuseppe Zanotti.

The dining area.

The living room. The TV doesn’t look half bad over the fireplace.

The walk-in closet she shares with her husband, Arthur Becker. Love the cowhide cubes. She should probably add some color to her West Coast wardrobe.

Above photographs by Douglas Friedman for Harper’s Bazaar

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Below photos are from Hermann Design

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Never Mind the Clothing, It’s the Room

StyleCarrot — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:46:27 +0000

Catching up on my magazine reading the other night I paused at this Carolina Herrera ad I came across in the new issue of Harper’s Bazaar (the one with Demi on the cover). Sure, the yellow dress is appropriately glam, but it’s the room I was taken with.The brass floor lamp with the chunky cube shades, the art deco black lacquer daybed, the mirrored console, the geometric patterned black and white marble floor . . . Love.

Carolina Herrera Spring/Summer 2012

Photographed by Patrick Demarchelier
Model: Sigrid Agren

These Carolina Herrera perfume ads are beauties too.

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Montage: 45 Rooms with Sideboards

StyleCarrot — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:02:42 +0000

I’ve been really interested in sideboards lately, especially Danish modern ones. While my first inclination for a sideboard is to skip the furniture altogether and build one in, the pieces are actually quite good looking, useful, and can be gotten at a good deal, particularly on eBay. It’s quite the grown up piece of furniture—a sideboard implies you have a second set of fancy dishes to store or highball glasses. And then there’s the need to artfully arrange a display on top, and hang a mirror or artwork. If you have a dining room, or a spacious living room that needs filler, definitely consider one. Here are a bunch of ideas on how to incorporate a sideboard into your decor.

Ellen Hamilton

Photographer Peter Margonelli

via The Brick House

via Desire to Inspire

Amy Lau

unknown

Photographer Moris Moreno

Molly Luetkemeyer – M. Design

Celerie Kemble

via New York Times

Brad Ford

Light Locations

Domino

FC Studio Architecture + Interiors

Carrier & Co.

Oak Management via Desire to Inspire

Fernlund + Logan Architects

unknown

Fernlund + Logan Architects

Fifth Season Design

Julia Buckingham Edelmann – Buckingham Interiors + Design

BDDW Furniture | Angela Adams

via The Aestate | Photographer Hotze Eisma

unknown (via Pinterest) | Photographer Justin Bernhaut

Photographer Mark Roshams | Photographer Kelly Ishikawa

Photographer Jeltje Janmaat | Emma’s Design Blog

Stylist Sally Conran | Photographer Prue Roscoe

Fenton & Fenton | Elle Decor South Africa

Molly Luetkemeyer – M. Design | unknown

Mercedes Pérez de Castro

Metropolitan Home – Kelly Wearstler

Geoffrey De Sousa

Photographer Bob O’Connor

via Design Traveler

via Emma’s Design Blog

Metropolitan Home

unknown (via Pinterest)

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41 (More) Rooms with Poufs

StyleCarrot — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:02:33 +0000

My pouf post, 34 Rooms with Poufs, has proven the most popular on the site. So, seeing as the trend is still going strong, I’ve curated a whole new batch of interiors featuring Moroccan leather, knitted, and even wicker poufs, plus a couple of bean bag varieties.

Daniel Pafford in Lonny

Lindsay Bentis in Boston Home

via Bo-Laget

via Decorpad

Photographer Simon Upton in Elle Decor

Tineke Triggs of Artistic Designs for Living

Jonathan Adler

CB2

Desire to Inspire

The Parker Palm Springs, Jonathan Adler

Alexandra Angle

via A Piece of Toast