Last Call

So it's here, this weekend!
And the darling folks at Refinery 29 gave everyone a sneak preview. Head on over to view a few before the show.


Otherwise head on over here to get your tickets. Want in for the member price? Sure you do. Leave a comment with a way for me to contact you and the first three people will get the secret passcode.

Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad

Just fell for these understated and smart frames for objects. Seems perfect for all of natures sculptures you find upon your path by Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad.


via 2 or 3 things

Tacklebox

I'm completely geeking on Tacklebox's process photos on the new Aesop shoppe in NYC.


via Tacklebox

Bragging Rights

So as long as the subject isn't yourself I'm pretty sure a little bragging is completely just and socially exceptable. Surely you remember this gorgeous home originally brought to you by my very dear and talented friend Jorge right here on halcyon days. Well another dear friend passed it along to those talented gals at Rue and Ta Da here it is in the latest issue. Go check it out. 

It looks Gorgeous thanks to Jorge's art director eye channeled through some super talented photographers. And of course darling Luciano who has done a stellar job at restoring one of many of my favorite beauties in Rio. Congrats to all involved.

Alex Garcia

Hellooooo, I up an disappeared on you again. What can I say, this summer I've certainly joined the circus and my main act is juggling, which I might add I'm not so great at if you couldn't tell. I guess is doesn't help that I've gotten sick a couple of times already which has put a bit of a damper on things too that and I've been finishing up the last minute details for my show which is THIS weekend! Eep!

Good thing there are artists like Alex Garcia to brighten your day or weekend for that matter. I came across his work this past weekend not once but twice. First at the re-opening of Thermidor there were a couple of stately pieces that seamlessly fused with the scale of the space. Then again at Propeller in Hayes Valley as the Mister and I were shopping for his brother's birthday gift we found a few of a more manageable size.

He's a local artist with an architecture background. You wouldn't have guessed would you? The pieces are expertly crafted from wood scraps, some hand stained woods, and what looks like some reclaimed wood as well and at least the ones I came across were hung within thin steels frames. Check out more of his work here or if you are in San Francisco stop by Thermidor for a cocktail and a bite. 

Chamberlain Javens Office

Can you imagine this being your office? I can. Office envy to the maximum degree. Between working on designing someone else's office and feeling a great need to redesign my own so that it works more efficiently. I'm in office overload in the best possible way.


This is Ella's office (to be clear the office she works for, Chamberlain Javens) an architect in Melbourne. (Anyone else in the blog world think Melbourne is off the map for creatives, do they all move there? Are they all born there? If Melbourne were an American City what would it be?) The office also had a hand in designing it. Read more about it here.


Photographs by Dianna Snape

Around the House

A.What's on my night-stand/reading table.

B. Rasmus' new home on the Platner chair. Although sometimes I wake up to find him passed out like this which makes me think he's making trips to his old home hanging above the bar.

David Bailey's Box of Pin-ups

I've had this in my ebay watch list since my favorite illustrator said it was the inspiration for her book Watkin's box of pin-ups. I've been waiting years in vain for her book to arrive in the states but still no word of it. Anyone in Sweden want to help me acquire it?


Well for the first time a couple of days ago David Baily's box of pin-ups, the original inspiration, turned up in my inbox and I was instantly delighted and extremely disappointed since one look at that price tag meant this Box of Pin-ups will Never find a place on my shelves. On the the other hand I was elated to have a peek at the infamous box. Perhaps one of you dear readers have deeper pockets than I and would like to invite me over for a full viewing?

Sea Ranch

Our anniversary is around the corner so I booked us a stay in Charles Moore's condo at Sea Ranch. I've never been and only know it from long ago architectural history classes. Have you been? Do you have any suggestions on what to do and see?
Please please share. Thank-you!


Illustration: MLTW (Moore, Lyndon, Turnbull, and Whitaker), gifted to SFMOMA by William Turnbull. 

And some weekend links...
Mjölk's shop is ready and open
Kinfolk is finally live
And Pompoon has struck an interest;)

Bureau for Architecture and Design

Alright you Angeleno's I'm tired of you flaunting all your design weeks in front of me! Seriously how many design events can one city have in a summer! 

The photos above are just teaser photos from the Bureau of Architecture and Design of their exhibit going up. According to Mohamed Sharif...

The mess you see is a cluster of 16" square 3d tiles that form battery powered mobiles. They will form an ambient, slow moving meshwork behind a screen onto which we'll project looped films of LA and Tokyo at Pecha Kucha for Little Tokyo Design Week. 

The exhibit will be through Sunday from 4pm until late. For a schedule about all the goings on go HERE.

So if you are in town can you please GO and send me some better photos and even better yet a video I want to see these things move!

 

Around the House

A. What I learned recently was our light fixture above the dining table was a Jørn Utzon.
B. I'm thinking of getting rid of my collection of light cages
C. A new handbag and my old iphone
D. There has been some painting going on around the house. Yes, I paint from the Knoll sofa over a Nelson bench over the Roses rug
E. Can I really get rid of them? Their functionality is so elegant
F. Gorgeous and cheap wire sculpture from Flora Grubb.

Come have a drink with me!

As some of you know I LOVE a good Bloody Mary. But in recent years it's been an awful lot of fun to see the cocktail culture and the diy pickling culture cross breed. Not many cocktails can have so many variations and still be called the same drink. I thought it might be fun to start collecting them on paper. And now I've finally gotten up enough courage to show them too. Thanks to the Mister and my dear friend Melissa Werner for not just the nudge but for shoving me off that cliff. 

They will be up for a one day show at 18 Reasons on July 31st along with a class led by Sean Timberlake of Punk Domestics to give us a few different renditions of this classic brunch beverage. You can purchase tickets HERE.

Bedroom Blues

For some strange reason I have yet to get a handle on designing our bedroom. It should be so easy but I never like ANY sheets or bedding companies. I want dark and sultry and everyone wants whites, lights or sunny. And if you can't get the bed right you surely can't move on to anything else. Thus we've been stuck in a holding pattern in the bedroom.


Recently I've really been thinking about quilts not just because they have been popping up nearly everywhere but because my Mom has picked it up as her craft in recent years. There's just one problem... even though I can appreciate the art of quilting I have modern tastes so finding something (yes again like above) that peaks my interest is difficult. These quilts by building block seem in to be in the right direction. 


And that last photo is of some tile work in Brasilia I took while I was there. Mom suggested making this into a quilt. My first thought was no but if the blues were indigo dyed fabrics and I swapped out the doves for either a different color or a different shape perhaps it could work after all. Thoughts?


building block found via Rena Tom

Maurizio Zucchi

Hellooooo so I did have some lovely time off although I have to say it was a mixed blessing because for a lot of the time I was taking care of myself and staying in bed after a scary visit to the E.R. Not exactly what I had planned I tell ya! But, I am feeling worlds better and really couldn't wait to share this unbelievable home.


I was seriously stunned when I came across these photographs. It was an instant "I have to live here, this is MY home" moment. Move over Maurizio as I'm not sure how you crawled inside my brain and created my dream home all the way over there in Italy.


The abundance of sculptural cactus
Several of the light fixtures on my must have list.
Wire sculpture shelving.
Those bent wood chairs. (anyone know who makes those?)
That coffee table and the loads of books covering it.


via Agnes of iiiinspired. She finds the most delightful places and spaces.