There are some little antiques doodads that I just can’t pass up buying no matter how useless they are in a modern house. Take egg cups. They are just the cutest little things in the whole world, but how often are going to actually make soft boiled eggs and sit there with your little spoon…
i’ve been wanting to have a bedside water solution for a while now. unfortunately, my cat has decided he will only drink from human glasses, so the glass of water before bed is inevitably full of fur by the time i want to drink it. i love the look of vintage thermoses, so i decided…
i’m a huge tord boontje fan. huge. so when d*s reader sandie sent me a link to the new hp mini computer (and website) designed by tord i practically squealed with delight. not only is tord’s design for the website perfectly dreamy and romantic, but the computer itself is pretty darn adorable. i feel like…
i’m not normally a big soap person- or halloween person for that matter. but lately i’ve been overwhelmed by requests for halloween craft projects. i know, already? but tons of you are looking for ways to get ready for the holiday so i was happy to see this fun printed soap tutorial from debbie at…
I think there is something compelling about things, anything really, made from wire or metal. There is a craft quality to the work; so much of it has a wonderful hand-made feel. And there’s also an interesting graphic element where the pieces can look like a 3D scribble and throw beautiful shadows. 1. One guy…
yesterday i finally finished my new upholstered headboard (the diy video will be up at 1pm today!) and now the makeover momentum is carrying over to my dark living room. i feel the need to lighten everything up and have my eyes on this wallpaper from anthropologie. i have a little outcropping on one side…
louis chair illustration by julia rothman print available at julia’s website! I love French style! And French style usually means you’ll find a Louis chair somewhere in the mix! But it wasn’t until I really studied the heyday of French style – the 18th century – that I began to get a handle on what…
I (who am normally a proud brunette) have only ever dreamed of going blond once and it was because of The Virgin Suicides, a movie I desperately dreamed of living in 10 years ago when I first saw it. Minus the whole, tormented and lonely misery part. The Lisbon sisters awoke a little part of…
today the lovely clair holt of grid impact is back with a fantastic biz ladies post on time & calendar management. i’ve got about 4 different projects on my plate right now so i sure i know i could use this help- and i have a feeling most of us could use a few tips…
as i pour myself another cup of tea i’m wishing i was pouring it into these beautiful scalloped mugs from maria lintott ceramics. hand made in hertfordshire, england, each of maria’s designs have a lovely sense of lightness to them. i’m especially fond of her fluid bowls as well- those loose edges and sides are…
OK, so this color seems to have been percolating for a while. I love it though, for me yellow still bears fruit. And one of my favorite visionaries, design forecaster Li Edelkoort, chose a yellow house for the cover of her recent, and much coveted, color forecasting book. Earlier this year she spoke at Design…
good morning! today i’m filming a little diy video in my bedroom (a fun upholstered headboard project) so i’m going to kick things off with a new calendar from eva at sycamore street press while i start getting everything ready. eva just introduced a lovely new 2010 letterpress calendar, inspired by her grandmother’s blue and…
maya marzolf opened le grenier in greenpoint, brooklyn just before summer. the store is filled with antiques – both rustic and industrial – as well as a mix of newer housewares, but somehow everything seems to mesh perfectly thanks to maya’s well-refined personal aethetic, which was honed when she worked as fashion photography producer. maya…
the design*sponge team have all been fans of john murphy‘s photographs – housed in his trademark ornate frames hand-finished in punchy colors – for some time now! so it’s such a thrill to get a look into his philly home! just three years ago, john and family moved outside of the city proper to a…
the weather has definitely changed here in nyc, there’s a certain crispness in the air that makes you want to sharpen your pencils and get new school clothes! so it’s fitting that this sneak peek is a look into the home of a professor. jamie, a graphic design professor at kansas city art institute, and…
in the past we’ve visit the kitchen of the talented lisa congdon (literally and with a recipe), but today we have a very special look into where all the magic happens: her studio. the wonderful old brick building located near 18th and york in san francisco serves as the work space for lisa and her…
after a few days at the brimfield antique fair i woke up on saturday morning officially ready to rid my living room of my mid century furniture in exchange for a look that is more “rustic antique”. i’m trying to find a way to mix in some industrial-style antiques, along with some worn wooden pieces,…
I am a journalist with a passion for architecture and design and lately I’ve become obsessed with posters. It started at the beginning of summer with a visit to the Getty Center. I live in Los Angeles and my parents were visiting from Sydney. We loaded the kids into the car and headed to Richard…
good morning! after a few rainy but fun days in brimfield, mass i am back and ready to start making some changes around my house (out with the mid-century, in with rustic antiques). but first i wanted to welcome journalist cerentha harris to the d*s guest blog! i’m a big fan of cerentha’s writing and…
we’re hitting the fields at brimfield one more time and then packing up the car and heading back to brooklyn. but before we go, i wanted to end the day with some beautiful pictures from adelante austin‘s new airstream boutique called “curb service”. based in austin, adelante austin recently retrofitted a 1976 airstream into a…
