Design Diary: John Derian’s Provincetown House

Photos of John Derian‘s Provincetown cottage were published by Vogue Living a while back, as well as Martha Stewart Living. This week the Boston Globe featured it too. I still haven’t been into his shop, which is right behind the house, but I’ll try to go this weekend and take some photos. I’m off to the Cape for the rest of the summer in the morning!

John Derien relaxes on antique grain sack bolster cushions  by a galvanized table in the outdoor seating area of his home in  Provincetown. Two 14-foot red vintage Chinese life saving boat oars lean  nearby. The home is a restored 1789 sea captain's house on Commercial  Street.
Photo: Julia Cumes for the Boston Globe

John Derian lounges against antique grain sack pillows on his porch. The swathe of red on the right are two14-foot vintage Chinese life saving boat oars.

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Photo: Julia Cumes for the Boston Globe

The shingled home is a restored 1789 sea captain’s house on Commercial Street in Provincetown’s West End. The Greek Revival columns were added in the early 19th century.

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Photo: Julia Cumes for the Boston Globe

The white sofa is Derian’s “Geranium,” a design inspired by Hepplewhite-style antiques of the late 16th century. (Locally, Lekker in the South End carries Derian’s line of upholstered pieces.)  The worn pedestal table holds a Chinese lacquered box, a trough filled with carpet balls, and a stone lamp from France. The duo of framed birds above the sofa are ink drawings.

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Photo: Julia Cumes for the Boston Globe

In the cozy kitchen, a 19th-century round butcher block table is used as extra counter space. The fixture hanging above is a Robert Ogden mirror shade made by Mennonites in Pennsylvania. The 19th-century sofa is covered in antique grain sacks.

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Photo: Vogue Living

A tattered chair and a stump sea made from a 19th-century beam. The print on the large pillow echoes that of the wallpaper.

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Photo: Vogue Living

The living room has its original wallpaper and a paint-splattered wood floor.

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Photo: Julia Cumes for the Boston Globe

The front bedroom, which is in the original part of the house, has a 19th century canopy bed. A 19th century Dutch seascape hangs above a marble-topped 19th century French cafe table. A Hugo Guinness drawing of a geranium hangs next to the fireplace over a French side chair.

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Photo: Julia Cumes for the Boston Globe

A guest room with a French iron bed covered in a 19th-century homespun sheet from Transylvania; a red Jeanette Farrier pillow adds color. A vintage insect chart, a style we’ve seen a lot of lately, leans against the wall next to the sink. The gold-painted empire mirror is from 1830.

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Photo: Julia Cumes for the Boston Globe

Left: An 18th-century chest holds a 19th-century French lantern bottle covered in fabric and a Boston School painting; , a Federal mirror hangs above.  Right: A Hugo Guinness linocut ‘‘Chrysanthemum’’ drawing hangs above an early 19th-century Amish dry sink, on which an enormous clam shell and a 19th-century candle holder rest.

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Photo: Julia Cumes for the Boston Globe

British-born artist Peter Gee‘s palette makes for great art. Gee owned and taught at the Hawthorne School of Art in Ptown before he died in 2005. (His work looks amazing . . . look for an ARTmonday post devoted to Gee later this summer.)

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Fashion Flash: Rachel Zoe and Olsen Twins on YouTube

Here’s an amusing YouTube video that you’ll appreciate if you roll your eyes at Rachel Zoe. She actually stars in it.  If you find it even the tiniest bit entertaining, you MUST check out the Very Mary Kate series (it’s been around a while, so you may have already viewed) – beyond hilarious.

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Shop Alert: Fall Preview at Dress Boutique

Jane and Martha from Dress on Newbury Street sent along their fall preview. Their taste is impeccable. (If only I had more occasions to wear gorgeous pieces; working from home kills the wardrobe.) I stopped by yesterday to visit a 3.1 Phillip Lim dress I’d had my eye on all season (another working from home issue – I see all the looks online rather than in the store). There’s a few pieces on sale that are perfect for finishing out summer. But on to fall (I’m so not a summer person).

LOVE the Loeffler Randall leather zip clogs and violet Vanessa Bruno bag. And the Adam party dress (please someone, invite me somewhere festive).  Oh, the Adam gray flannel dress (to add to my gray flannel dress collection) and maybe if I got really, really skinny I could rock the MIH jeans. But the Fiorentin + Baker booties I could totally live in.

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Storefront: Boston Cupcake News

Sweet, Newbury Street

Sweet is now open on Newbury, and it’s just as sweet as the Mass. Ave. and Harvard Square shops. Same pretty wallpaper (Studio Printworks Grille Modern in a custom pink) and fixings – design compliments of Annsley McAleer. My son and I popped in on the way home from a friend’s on Saturday night. Though I wasn’t splurging on an 8pm cupcake, we indulged in frosting shots (him vanilla, me cream cheese) for fifty cents each. Genius.

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Treat cupcakes

While we’re on a sugar high . . . there’s another new cupcakery in town. Well, not really in town, it’s out in Needham, but it sounds so amazing that I’m almost tempted to make the drive. (Almost, not actually. Hoping Sam at Marlo Communications, their PR agency, will import a cupcake to the Back Bay.)  It’s Treat Cupcake Bar and the concept is make-your-own cupcake.  I put in my order for a chocolate cupcake with buttercream frosting and a chocolate covered pretzel topping.

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ARTmonday: Hadley Holliday

Photo: Style Section L.A.

This morning, while reading through clips from L.A. style writers,  I came across a post about Los Angeles artist Hadley Holliday by Sierra Feldner-Shaw on Style Section L.A., a site I’ve now bookmarked.  I was immediately taken by Holliday’s work, especially the ones that give off a sort of really loose Frank Stella vibe, though the watery almost leopard print pieces are absolutely gorgeous (and I’m not even the animal print type.)

Feldner-Shaw came across Holliday’s work first in the apartment of shoe designer Beatrice Valenzuela, and second, in the home of jewelry designer Kathryn Bentley. The writer says, “The L.A. artist was clearly tapping into something fashion-savvy women were digging.” You can add me to that group.

Hadley Holliday went to RISD and the California Institute of the Arts (as well as the University of Kansas – she’s a Kansas City, Missouri girl). She works and lives in East L.A. and shows at the Solway Jones Gallery in L.A.’s Chinatown.

Long Shot, 2009

The Lovers, 2008

Spygyric, 2008

The Dancer, 2008

Sea of Joy, 2008

Forever and Never, 2009

Wallflower, 2009

Gestalt, 2009

Poured Square 2009                                               Poured Square 2009

Breakaway, 2009                                         Mirror Mirror, 2009

Love With The Proper Stranger, 2008

Detail of Love With The Proper Stranger

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