Category Archives: Rooms

April 13, 2010 · 3:02 am

Montage: 33 Vintage Suitcase Stacks

I’m really not a dusty old suitcase kind of gal. But last month I was at designer Jeff Osborne’s South End loft (I’ll blog about it later this week), where I realized I must acknowledge the allure of vintage Vuitton. (His Vuitton is the second photo down.) While I won’t be procuring any of these pricey pieces (or their poor un-provenanced cousins), I certainly recognize a trend when I see one. I recently wrote “Trendlet Alert: Well-Traveled Luggage” for The Inside Source. Here’s an expanded montage.

Photographer Erik Johnson

Photographer Josh Kuchinsky                           Photographer Max Attenborough

Apartment Therapy                                      Ken Fulk in House Beautiful

Light Locations

San Francisco Gate

Point Click Home via Apartment Therapy

Terramia                                                                    Ferm Living

Anthropologie

Apartment Therapy

Daryl Carter

San Francisco Gate

Just Something I Made blog                                                 Pottery Barn


Design*Sponge                                            The Neotraditionalist blog

Clockwise: via Nibs blog  |  via Nibs blog  |  Flickr-Veronica TM  |  Country Living

Clockwise: Anthropologie | Country Living | via My Sparrow blog | Better Homes & Gardens

via Heidi’s Diary blog                                             Better Homes & Gardens

Anthropology, Boston

Loveology blog                                          Photographer Anna G. Tufvesson

Celerie Kemble

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April 8, 2010 · 5:05 pm

TV Alert: Sixx Design on Bravo


The Novogratz Family

The husband and wife design duo behind Sixx Design, Robert and Cortney Novogratz, plus their brood of kids (two sets of twins, a couple of singles, and a new baby), have landed a TV gig. Nine by Design premieres Tuesday at 11pm on Bravo, then moves to its regular time at 10pm.

The series follows the couple over the course of six months, during which they worked on six large-scale design projects including a 24-room hotel on the Jersey Shore, a 10,000 square foot glass house on the West Side Highway and a home conversion of a gun shop located on the edge of Soho.

With any luck, this reality docu-DIY will focus on the team’s talents as taste makers rather than the antics of their ever growing family, though apparently Cortney goes into labor with the newest addition at the end of episode one. I’m definitely tuning in and hoping to get a taste of the magic behind their funky interior transformations. And besides, I need a new show; a girl can’t exist on Gossip Girl alone.

For more on Sixx Design you can read the NYT article from last spring.

And here’s a sampling of their work:

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March 30, 2010 · 2:01 am

Montage: 43 Kid Rooms

Following up on Friday’s post about Susanna Salk’s upcoming book Room for Children: Stylish Spaces for Sleep and Play (Rizzoli), I’ve curated some of my favorite images of spaces for kids. At the end of the post, I’ve included links to my previous kid room posts. Definitely inspires me to at least clean up, if not redecorate.

Philip Gorrivan

via Apartment Therapy

Atticus & Milo

Jeffrey King

Amie Weitzman

Amie Weitzman

Sixx Design

Bolig Magasinet

unidentified

Lisa Mahar

Steven Gambrel

via Apartment Therapy

via Desire to Inspire

Marjorie Skouras

Hamilton Design Associates

Steven Gambrel

via Apartment Therapy

Bonesteel Trout Hall

Robyn Karp

Brad Ford

Amie Weitzman

Amanda Nisbet  |  Photographer Louis Lemaire

Katie Lydon  |  via Desire to Inspire

Unidentified  |  Elle Decor

Digs by Katie  |  Unidentified

Beach Studios  |  Country Living

via Desire to Inspire  |  Katrine Martensen-Larsen

Stylist Leslie Siegel  |  unidentified

Sixx Design  |  Sixx Design

Delphine & Reed Krakoff | Fawn Galli in Domino

ARA Design Studio |  via Alkemie blog

via Apartment Therapy  |  Scott Sanders

For more gorgeous rooms for babies and kids, have a look at my past Montages:

*  Nurseries *
*  Bunk Beds *
*  Two Beds, One Room *
*  Bed Curtains & Canopies *
*  Sweet Dreams in Pink Bedrooms *

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March 26, 2010 · 12:26 pm

Fine Print: Susanna Salk’s Room For Children

Connecticut-based interior designer and writer Susanna Salk has curated an entire book of spectacular children’s spaces, from nurseries to bedrooms to playrooms, in Room for Children: Stylish Spaces for Sleep and Play (Rizzoli, April 2010).

Sure beats the oversize floral wallpaper (on the ceiling!) with gingham border and green shag carpet of my childhood lair. Though actually, that’s sounding kinda groovy now.

Susanna Salk

Here are some of my favorite shots from the book. On Tuesday look for my own montage of amazing kids’ rooms.

Architecture: Platt Byard Dovel White Architects  |   Design: Tracy Boss
Photo: © Jonathan Wallen

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Design: Kim Zimmerman  | Photo: © Pieter Estersohn

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Design: Laurence Kriegel  | Photo: © Pieter Estersohn

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Design: Sally Markham  | Photo: © Pieter Estersohn

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Photo: © Tria Giovan

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Design: Alex Papachristidis  | Photo: © John Gruen


All photographs from ROOM FOR CHILDREN by Susanna
Salk, Rizzoli, 2010

For more images from the book, see Susanna Salk’s Room for Children You Tube video.

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March 23, 2010 · 1:06 am

Montage: 45 Striped Rooms

Years ago, one summer weekend when I opted to stay in the City over the Hamptons, I got really ambitious, and painted my little bathroom on East 87th Street with soft green and white stripes. Well, it was already white, so I only painted the green. Only? I measured, taped, painted, painted again, waited for it to dry, and peeled. Done before the boyfriend arrived back on Sunday night. I don’t remember what he thought, I guess it was fine, but I remember that someone else described it as looking like a candy store. I suppose, depending on what you keep in your medicine chest that could be accurate…

Photos: House & Home; Better Homes & Gardens; photographer Graham Atkins-Hughes; Skona Hem; VT Wonen; Pappas Miron; Skona Hem; Shelton, Mindel & Associates; unidentified; Alwill Architecture; unidentified; Amanda Nisbet; Country Living; Boundary Hotel in London; Commune Design; Amanda Nisbet; Lonny Magazine; Jenna Lyons in Living Etc.; M. Design; Mary McDonald in Domino; Eric Roseff; Domino; Kishani Perera; Frank Roop; unidentified; Elle Décor; Nathalie Vingot Mei; unidentified; Byblos  Art Hotel Villa Amista; Burnham Design; Eric Roseff; Julie Richard; Meg Braff; photographer François Halard; photographer Carolyn Barber; Re-Nest; unidentified; Wendy Blount; Terrat Elms; Markham Roberts; Apartment Therapy; Isolee; Forms of Design; Southern Living, Angie Hranowsky.

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