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February 29, 2012 · 7:07 am

Montage: 47 Coffee/Cocktail Tables

Now that our living room is habitable again (aside from the two extra dining tables taking up half the space), I’ve decided to try out the Heywood-Wakefield coffee table with revolving top that we salvaged from my husband’s grandparents house. I had initially been thinking of an airy brass and glass piece, to work with the pair of atomic ball and brass-plated vintage lamps from eBay and yet to be chosen future chandelier, but this one looks pretty good.

It works nicely with our Petrie sofa, which has similar lines to the original 1960s pieces his grandparents used to furnish the house. (Too bad our sofa is uncomfortable. Actually, it’s fine for cocktails, but not conducive to lying around with a laptop. Which do you think I spend more time doing?

Here are 49 living rooms with various styles of coffee table (or cocktail table, I guess the term is interchangeable). If you’re working on figuring out what type of design will work for you, these images will provide some ideas.

Jamie Bush & Co.
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Christina Yorkston, CY Design
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Rue Magazine
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Aerin Lauder’s Aspen house by Daniel Romualdez in Vogue
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via The Brick House
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via Design Traveller
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Aqua Vitae Design
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unidentified
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Jonathan Adler
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Philip Gorrivan Design
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Shelton, Mindel, & Associates
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Tricia Guild
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Angie Hranowsky Design Studio
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Photographer Simon Watson
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unidentified
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Photographer John Coolidge
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Katie Lydon
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Fernlund + Logan Architects
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Photographer Simon Watson
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via Poppytalk
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Muriel Brandolini
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Vita Designs
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unidentified
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Turnbull, Griffin, Haesloop Architects
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Dave Coote Interiors
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Photographer Jon Jensen
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Jonathan Adler
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unidentified
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Muriel Brandolini
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via The Glamourai
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Greg Natale | Aerin Lauder’s NYC apartment in Elle Decor
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Amanda Nisbet Design | via Lilac Silhouette
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John Loecke | Matt Eastwood
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unidentified | unidentified
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unidentified | Photographer Hoetze Eisma
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Greg Natale | unidentified
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Vanessa Bruno’s apartment | Photographer Trevor Tondro
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Tommy Hilfiger’s apartment | Shelton, Mindel, & Associates

Just In: 2012 New Trad Designers

Last month, San Francisco-based designer Palmer Weiss, whose work I adore, asked if would submit her work to Traditional Home for its Trad Home New Designers contest. (Trad Home is the magazine’s digital edition). The house we submitted is absolutely gorgeous, and I’m happy to say she won!

The May issue of the print magazine will feature an announcement with everyone’s photos, and the projects of the ten winners will be published in the spring edition of Trad Home online. The bloggers who nominated the designers will write the accompanying stories. I’ve already did my interviews with Palmer and the homeowner, and will be working on crafting the feature all day today.

Congrats Palmer, and congratulations to the other New Trad winners. Here is a sampling of the designers’ work.

P A L M E R W E I S S
palmer weiss interior design
Nominated by Marni Elyse Katz, StyleCarrot

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C H R I S T I N A M U R P H Y
christina murphy interiors
Nominated by Marisa Marcantonio, StyleBeat

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G R A N T K. G I B S O N
grant k. gibson interior design
Nominated by Crystal Gentilello, Rue Magazine

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G I D E O N M E N D E L S O N
Mendelson Group
Nominated by Nicole Gibbons, SoHaute

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T A M A R A K A Y E – H O N E Y
House of Honey
Nominated by Cassandra LaValle, Coco+Kelley

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M E L A N I E T U R N E R
Melanie Turner Interiors
Nominated by Patty Day, Patty’s Ephiphanies

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T A M M Y C O N N O R
Tammy Connor Interior Design
Nominated by Ronda Carman, All the Best Blog

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M O N A R O S S B E R M A N
MRB Interiors
Nominated by Naomi Stein, Design Manifest

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A L L I S O N H E N N E S S Y
Allison Hennessy Interior Design
Nominated by Stacey Bewkes, Quintessence

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N I C K O L S E N
Nick Olsen Style
Nominated by Anne Maxwell Foster and
Suysel dePedro Cunningham, Tilton Fenwick

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February 27, 2012 · 10:45 am

ARTmonday: Lissy Elle

I discovered photographer Lissy Larrichia, or Lissy Elle, as she seems to go by, on one of my new favorite blogs, The Jealous Curator yesterday. Her work is incredibly atmospheric and angsty. She’s a Canadian teen (or maybe she’s just beyond teendom now; her Flickr stream started in late 2009). I really love her work—the settings, the dresses, the props, the narratives. You should have a look at her Facebook page too, where she’s posted some of her most recent images.

Golden Hours

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The Play Pretend Princess

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Untitled

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Princess Alyssabeth’s Belated Birthday

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The Big Bad Wolf

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The End of Alice
“The Alice in all of us dies sometime. From personal experience, the Alice in all my friends were stabbed to death the moment they got breasts. Breasts suck.”

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