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August 27, 2009 · 4:59 pm

Montage: Clocks

I like to know what time it is. That will come as no surprise to those of you who know me, since it goes along with my über organized mindset. (Though, my husband will surely point out that I’m not actually ever on time.)

In any case, the clock has always been a feature of my well-ordered life. When I was in junior high, I used my holiday money from Nana to buy a clock radio. (Yes, I realize I am dating myself.) I really, really wanted a Sony Dream Machine, a compact, glossy white cube with a pretty blue LED readout. Alas, I could only afford a slightly downscale model, an odd-shaped polygon with teal numbers. It has the loudest siren-like alarm you ever did hear. I still have it. My husband hates it. It’s alarming enough to cause heart failure. But it gets me up in a jiffy.

This post focuses on wall clocks. Like most, I adore George Nelson’s. I also like a simple, crisp school clock design. I’m not a fan of the Roman numeral up on the wall, though my Cartier watch is among my prized possessions. Here’s an array of clocks in rooms by designers and those found on Flickr from regular folks.

Flickr Finds

Photos: Floroom B&B via Remodelista; White Webb; Apartment Therapy Los Angeles; Light Locations; Beth Evans via Desire to Inspire; Kelly McGuill; L’Internaute; Apartment Therapy NYC; Apartment Therapy; Living Etc.; Living Etc.; Domino; photographer Jean-Pierre Lemoine; SR Gambrel; Design Sponge; Lori Graham; Real Simple; Ken Fulk; Stylehome via Desire to Inspire; photographer Lisa Cohen; Larson + Shores; photographer Julien Lanoo; photographer Graham Atkins-Hughes. FLICKR FINDS: Moakidi; Twittering Bird; suzy8track; Moakidi; Moakidi; eternity eyes 2009; mondolind; Gene Fama; irksomecushion; juliannlaw; paperNstitch; joe-pirela; m.bibelot.

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Tagged as Beth Evans, clocks, george nelson, Graham Atkins-Hughes, Jean-Pierre Lemoine, Julien Lanoo, Kelly McGuill, Ken Fulk, L'Internaute, Lisa Cohen Larson + Shores, mid-century modern clocks, Steven Gambrel, wall clocks, White Webb

July 27, 2009 · 10:24 am

Montage: 40 Rooms with Maps

I have a definite thing for maps, though I never really considered going all out with them to decorate. I had a stamp collection when I was little. I wasn’t geeky, I just loved matching up the stamps to the right countries in my stamp book. And I loved looking at the world map on the back cover to figure out where all these places were. Randomly, my first job out of college was as the maps editor at a travel magazine, assigning illustrators to execute various styles of maps to accompany the articles. Later my sister worked as a mapmaker. And, most recently, my children bring me home numerous watercolors of maps they painstakingly create at their Montessori school. They’re actually lovely – perhaps I’ll dig some out.

S0, I’ve been collecting images of rooms incorporating maps for a while. By now, lots of blogs have done a round-up of rooms, and even Pottery Barn has plastered them on the walls for their newest catalog. I recently visited a friend with an old map of the Cape executed in an interesting way – the previous homeowners had cut out the landform and mounted it. The guy who owned the original home on our Cape house site also left one of these maps. I had previously deemed it too dingy for display (TDD), but clearly I need to rethink. You can see a picture of my friend’s below. Enjoy the others too. Hopefully there are a few you haven’t seen yet!

Photos: Living Etc.; Apartment Therapy; Cookie; Skona Hem; Diana Kellog Architects; Pottery Barn; Sara Gibane; Steven Gambrel; Jan Gleysteen photographed by Eric Roth; Cookie; Domesticali; Lara Smera; Ferm LIving; Flickr-Ooh Food; Revista TPM; Kelly McGuill; Flickr-bckueser; DIY Magazine; Skona Hem; Flickr-dayataglance; Ara Design Studio via Apartment Therapy; South Stream Design; Flickr-Chez Larsson; Flickr-Posidriv; Apartment Therapy; Cookie; Flickr-Heike Schmidt; Domino; unidentified; photographer Ben Anders; The Goods; Kerry Joyce; Miguel Vidaurre; photographer Jim Franco; Peter Dunham; Adrian Grenier’s home in Domino; Peter Dunham in Domino; Living Etc.; Desire to Inspire.