Belle Jewelry Box/Ring Holder
It spins like a top & opens to reveal a felted bowl for jewelry.
Designed by Swedish architecture firm Claesson Koivisito Rune for Skultuna.
$140 at Mjolk.
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Design Diary: Rachel Reider’s Redo of Newport’s Attwater Hotel
Boston-based interior designer Rachel Reider, about whose rooms I’ve written about for the Boston Globe Magazine, recently completed a total redo of the Attwater Hotel in Newport, RI. The project included all 12 guest rooms, the lounge, dining room, and café, hallways, sitting areas, and outside deck. Reider drew on nautical inspirations, like varying shades of blue and grommets, but incorporated them in not so obvious ways, amid punchy colors and geometric patterns. Where tired or overdone New England decor is the norm, this is the freshest stay in town.
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Get the Look: 41 Modern Kitchen Island Pendants
To follow up on last week’s Montage: 32 Kitchen Island Pendants, here are 41 styles of modern kitchen lighting pendants petite enough to hang over the island. You can see I tend to veer to an industrial sort of style, and certainly favor the bare bulb aesthetic. I detest the red and cobalt cylinders so often found in newly built kitchens. I included a couple of colored glass specimens here, but they’re either a semi-translucent sky blue, if opaque, in a mid-century modern silhouette.
I actually don’t have pendants over the island in Boston or the Cape. (I do however have a trio of #13 over the kitchen banquette table.) I prefer the clean look of recessed lights over an island, but if I had to have some, I really love these. My favorites are #5 and #41. These and more from StyleCarrot partner sites.
S H O P P I N G
1 Cage Fuel Pendant, $119 at CB2.
2 Peterson Pendant, $150 at Williams-Sonoma Home.
3 Capri Bottle Pendant, $195 at Jonathan Adler.
4 Astron Mid-Century Modern Pendant, $130 at Rejuvenation.
5 Iacoli & McAllister Frame Light, $395 at The Future Perfect.
6 Hoyne Pendant, $349 at Crate & Barrel.
7 Lucy Pendant in Linen by Lights Up!, $227 at Burke Décor.
8 Pendant No. 7730 by Savoy House, $124 at Lumens.
9 LUNTA Pendant, $39.99 at IKEA.
10 Muuto E27 Socket Lamp, 59€ at Maison203.
11 Bulb Pendant by &Tradition, $175 at Lumens.
12 NUD Concrete Pendant, $79.95 at Room68.
13 BRASA Pendant, $39.99 at IKEA.
14 Vintage Deco Milk Glass Pendant, $900 at Obsolete.
15 Aromory Work Lamp w/Hemp Cord, $875 at Jayson Home.
16 Vintage Flowerpots by Verner Panton, $998 at Moetkunsten.
17 Hand Screened Shades by Tamasyn Gambell, £70 at Forest.
18 Globe Pendant, $99 at West Elm.
19 Northrup Classic Chain Pendant, $440 at Rejuvenation.
20 Etch Shade Pendant by Tom Dixon, $525 at Lumens.
21 Hudson Valley Lighting Marion Mini Pendant, $480 at Wayfair.
22 TORNA Pendant, $69.99 at IKEA.
23 LBL Olivia Pendant, $336 at Lumens.
24 Industrial Pendant, $99 at West Elm.
25 Anvia Counter Balance Lamp, $1443 at Mass Modern Design.
26 Glas Suspension Lamp by Diesel with Foscarini 580€ at Maison203.
27 Vintage Prescolite Pendant, $1000 at BG Galleries.
28 Coope Pendant, $160 at Jayson Home.
29 Edge 30 Suspension by Alessandro Mendini, $490 at Hive.
30 A330 by Alvar Aalto for Artek, $1,165 at Lumens.
31 George Kovacs Alecia’s Necklace Mini Pendant, $97 at Wayfair.
32 Siren Pendant, $299 at CB2.
33 Form Us with Love Work Lamp, $120 at The Future Perfect.
34 Floral Pendant by Hiroki Takad, $835.20 at Ylighting.
35 Easy Pendant by Ferruccio Laviani for Kartell, $155 at Hive.
36 Copper Shade Pendant by Tom Dixon $735 at Lumens.
37 Turquoise Dome Pendant by Jamie Young, $276 at Ylighting.
38 Urban Renewal Disc Pendant, $139 at Lightology.
39 Coronado Classic Single-Pole Pendant, $159 at Rejuvenation.
40 Can Can Suspension by Marcel Wanders for Flos, $290 at Hive.
41 Lauren Ralph Lauren Dustin Dodecahedron, $440 at Circa Lighting.
42 Verner Panton Topan Pendant, $350 at Ylighting.
ARTmonday: Budd Hopkins
Today’s post is in memory of Budd Hopkins, an artist who worked in New York City and Wellfleet, Cape Cod, and died one year ago Wednesday. He was a longtime friend of my in-laws, and his daughter, photographer Grace Hopkins-Lisle is a childhood friend of my husband’s, and a friend of mine now too. I knew Budd a little bit. I remember how he playfully teased my son one afternoon when we happened to hanging around during his visit with my in-laws. Last year, my husband spoke about remembering him as the guy who always had a joke for the kids, while they ran wild during the grown-ups cocktail parties in the seventies. Seemed he hadn’t changed much.
He was a very successful painter and sculptor; an Abstract Expressionist, whose work is in the permanent collections of MoMA, the Whitney, Guggenheim, and Hirschhorn. He was friends with Motherwell, encountered Pollack, and lunched with Rothko. (He was also known for his sighting and subsequent research of UFOs. In his obituary, the New York Times called him, “the father of the alien-abduction movement,” having been the first to publish narratives of people who said they’d been abducted.) But back to his artwork.
I first saw his work when my husband and I moved in together. Budd had given him a piece as a wedding present to his first wife. It’s a visually uplifting work,I think, in a saturated pink in a nice silver frame. It’s one of his “guardians” (not sure if they’re guarding earthlings or the other worldlies). My in-laws have several of his pieces hanging in their Cape house, including a sculptural representation, and presented us with a couple of little guardian studies over the years. Last summer, his daughter Grace curated a show of his work at Castle Hill in Truro, which was the last time we saw him. My kids both got to pick out a piece they liked, which their grandfather purchased for them. They love having them in their bedrooms.
These are photos I took at my house, my in-laws, at Castle Hill, and at Budd’s own home in Wellfleet, during his memorial service.
The stairwell of Budd’s Wellfleet home.
Two small guardian studies hang in my dining area.
Leaning in my living room.
At the end of the hall at my in-laws’ house.
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Two in the stairwell.
Two non-guardian abstracts.
In the basement of Budd’s Wellfleet home.
On my son’s bookshelf.
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Exhibit at Castle Hill in Truro last summer.
Sunday Bouquet: Oakley and the Rose
Oakley and white roses from my Truro garden, with a sprig of Russian sage on a white quartz countertop.