I adore this new porcelain Grass Vase designed by Claydie from Normann Copenhagen. I’ve ordered one for my dining room table. When will it be spring?
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Montage: Saarinen Pedestal Tables
The Eero Saarinen pedestal table may be the purest form of perfection in furniture. It’s sleek, simple, and absolutely chic. Seemingly so easy to replicate, yet only an original, preferably in white with a white marble top, will do. (Though I’d take a rosewood one too. OK, I’d probably take any if offered.)
According to Design Within Reach, in a 1956 Time magazine cover story, Eero Saarinen said he was designing a collection to “clear up the slum of legs in the U.S. home.” Later that year, he introduced his Pedestal Table and Tulip™ Chair Collection, which is manufactured by Knoll. Talk about accomplishing your goal.
It sells for $2,747, so my dining room won’t be getting one any time soon. I do, however, already own a pedestal dining table, and it’s quite nice. I’d even say my cherry Charles Shackleton pedestal table is a well-made beauty; it’s just not as sleek or as modern as I’d like. What’s a girl (on a budget) to do?
I am thinking of swapping out the somewhat rustic, handmade Charles Shackleton Cottage Side Chairs for a more contemporary look, perhaps in green. The boys’ Stokke Tripp Trapp chairs look cute around the table, I think. So maybe a few curvy grown up chairs, like the West Elm Scoop Back Chair in wheatgrass (just $79!) can join them. I flirted with the idea of the Jonathan Adler Chippendale Chair in Juicy Green ($550). Ever mindful of costs (hee hee) I started browsing ebay for similar ones I could have refinished. But my husband informed me, via a post on this blog, that he detests the style. What’s a girl (with a husband) to do?
Answer: Whatever she wants! Just kidding. Or not. Stay tuned . . . And, if you have any ideas for chairs that would work with my table, let me know!
West Elm Scoop Back | Jonathan Adler Chippendale
Meanwhile, here is a sampling of Saarinen dining schemes to get me in the mix and match mood. Notice its versatility – the look is amazing no matter what style chair it’s paired with.
Saarinen photos: unidentified source; House Beautiful; Jonathan Adler; Skona Hem; Sara Bengur from the Kip’s Bay Showhouse 2008; Antik & Loppis; Domino; Domino; Living Etc.; Domino; unidentified source; Daniel M. Pafford; Domino; unidentified source; Eric Roth Photography; unidentified source; unidentified source.
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Architecutre: $2.7 Million for a Frank Lloyd Wright
Imagine living in a house built by Frank Lloyd Wright. Near San Francisco. On 80 acres. Including a Japanese garden, an eight-acre walnut orchard and FLW-designed swimming pool. My husband sent me a link from Boing Boing yesterday about this gorgeous Frank Lloyd Wright ranch house for sale, called The Fawcett Ranch House, for $2.7 million two hours southeast of San Francisco. Seems like a steal. It is 3,700 square feet, with six bedrooms and 4.5 baths and spectacular grounds. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the house is the third-to-last California residence drawn by Wright, and one of only two currently on the market.
According to the The Fawcett Ranch House website, the house was commissioned by Randall and Harriet Fawcett, who were barely thirty years old when they went to meet Frank Lloyd Wright in 1954. Wright was eighty-seven and at the peak of his career, designing the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
The house includes FLW’s signature stone fireplace with built-in modular seating (Here’s a picture of the fireplace in the living room of Falling Water.) Master woodworker George Nakashima was commissioned to build the dining table and its ten chairs, the living room coffee table, and three additional chairs.
I’m not in love with a dark wood kitchen, but there are plenty of skylights and interesting window screens to let light in, and the appliances actually look pretty up-to-date. Apparently Harriet Fawcett loved to cook and entertain, and the kitchen was the center of activity of the home.
The wall of glass sliders, the built in cabinetry, the stained glass windows, the woodwork detailing, the angular roof with copper fascia detailing, the patio, the pool. It’s amazing.
The Japanese garden was built by landscape architect and Japanese garden designer, Jim Kamimoto. Many of the garden’s granite boulders came from one of his trips to the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
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Montage: Violet Interiors
“Violet, you’re turning violet, Violet,” has always been one of my favorite lines from a movie. The sentiment is certainly fitting this season, as rosy purples, sweet lavenders, and deep aubergines persist in decidedly violet décors. I’m not a big pink person, and an overly obvious lavender feels a tad treacly, but violet, oh violet. Although violet was declared the new “it” color last year, Elle Decor is certainly still smitten (newest issue – April 2009 – on the left). And so am I.
Photos: The Style Files, Katz residence, Domino, Jeff Andrews, Skona Hem, Skona Hem, Kaite Ridder, The Style Files, Apartment Therapy, Cookie, Living Etc., Living Etc., NEA, Apartment Therapy, Katie Ridder, Domino, Domino, Living Etc., Domino, Living Etc., Apartment Therapy, Living Etc., Sara Story, Living Etc., Apartment Therapy, Living Etc., Eric Roth Photograpy, Domino, Apartment Therapy, Domino, Domino, Domino, Design Your Wall, The Style Files, The Style Files, Verve Designer Collections.
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ARTmonday: Robert Knight
Here are some photos by Rob Knight, a Boston-based photographer, who’s also a friend. (His five-year-old son Harry followed us around a garden center in out on the Cape last summer until we agreed to organize a play date between him and my six-year-old. We’re so glad!) Rob, who recently had a solo show, “My Boat is so Small,” at Gallery Kayafas in the South End. shoots a lot of interiors and quirky still lives. These are some of my favorite works:
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