Freestyle is an orgy of depressingly awesome New Wave architectural details by Frank Gehry, Eric Moss, Brian Murphy, Peter Shire and Thom Mayne and Michael Rotondi of Morphosis. top to bottom: Painted ceiling by Ros Cross; April Grieman’s house/laboratory; Bobby Houston’s office with murals by Eaz and Kiz; Wall sconce by Brian A. Murphy; Formica…
Tony and Claës Lewenhaupt Crosscurrents: Art, Fashion, Design, 1890–1989 Rizzoli, NY, 1989 This is probably my new favorite book. Sort of bizarre and awesome; it never disappoints, presenting parallels between fashion and art, architecture and product design. Crosscurrents was originally published in 1988 in Swedish as Tidens Tecken.
My friend Alex has an awesome tumblr called Weird Friends with a crazy good collection of vintage and incredible textiles and objects. The archive of mostly original posts goes deep; 1,008 posts in August alone! You can tell she has a library card. She found Navajo Pictorial Weaving at the library and as soon as…
Hi there design*sponge readers. This is Andy Beach and I’ll be posting here this week. I have two blogs where I post things I like. There’s no better way to describe them, Reference Library and Stork Bites Man are each a mix of found objects, eBay losses, art, design, architecture, kid stuff, things friends make…
I’ve had such a fun time guest blogging this week on Design Sponge and I’m so sad to see the week end. I really cannot thank Grace enough for this wonderful opportunity, and truly appreciate all the wonderful comments everyone left during the week. I am always amazed at the talent I get to feature…
Yeah, so apparently we like peaches. This shoot was pretty much inspired by this engagement shoot the Simply Bloom girls did, these dessert plates I came across, and some strong urge to hold on to the end of summer. The images from the engagement session were so lovely and I guess I kind of imagined…
I’m really fortunate to have a wonderful team of contributors on Once Wed who help me bring unique and original content to my readers on a weekly basis. I was thrilled when my amazing DIY contributor,
I guess you could say over the last year Joy Thigpen has become my pseudo-creative director/art director/wedding stylist/florist extraordinaire/best friend. When Grace asked me to guest blog, I immediately called Joy about putting together some inspiration shoots to share with everyone. We knew we wanted to stretch our wings a bit and try putting together…
Hi! My name is Emily and I write the wedding blog, Once Wed. Before I jump right into wedding eye candy, I just wanted to say a huge thank you to Grace for having me on this week. Featuring reader weddings is one of my favorites parts of being a wedding blogger, so I couldn’t…
My last post! What a lovely experience this has been. Thank you to Grace for the opportunity and to all you readers for your sweet comments. As summer comes to an end in northern hemisphere and slowly starts up in the south it seems right to look at all things watery. I’ve always collected images…
I am a reluctant sewer at the best of times but I do admire the skill in others. I grew up in a house where craft certainly wasn’t central but my aunt Cherry made amazing tapestry pillows using a gorgeous bargello pattern. Part of what made them so beautiful was the simple repetitious geometry and…
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…
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…
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…
Friday already! It has been so much fun guest-blogging for Design Sponge this week, thanks again to Grace for giving me the opportunity. I can’t tell you how much I have appreciated all of the positive feedback I have received. I hope you’ll continue to check in with me over at Looks Good To Me….
Like many of you out there. I was a huge fan of Domino magazine. It was all about fashion for the home and was always a source of inspiration for decorating ideas and projects. Its passing has left a major void in my monthly magazine subscription delivery and I miss it dearly. One of my…
After stripes (and I love my stripes), houndstooth is my all time favorite pattern. I couldn’t be more excited that houndstooth is such a trend this fall as seen in the collections of top designers like Alexander McQueen, Marc by Marc Jacobs and others. It is a bold and graphic pattern and just reeks with…
When I discover something I love, I want to see it everywhere. I am always thrilled when a favorite fashion designer creates a diffusion line for the home because it allows me to carry the same great aesthetic touches throughout my apartment from my closet to my pillows, linens, curtains, etc. My favorite pieces in…
I’m just so happy. To be here, guest blogging on Design*Sponge this week! Thank you so much to Grace and the team for having me, I am very excited for the week ahead. My name is Caroline and I am coming to you from Looks Good To Me, my illustrated blog on which I pull…
Elasticco’s Rubberband Basket and Ja-Hyuk Yim’s American Rubber-band III. Numbers Desk Set and Notes Refillable Notebook by Mateo Ilasco. Sorry, I didn’t have time this week to put together the DIY instructions for the hanging, exposed lightbulbs. But I’ll make sure to give it to Grace as soon as it’s done. Thanks everyone for reading…
